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P.O. Box 478
Coppell. Texas 75019
214 - 462 - 0022
October 31, 1988
Mr. William B. Johnson
409 Meadowcreek Road
Coppell, Texas 75019
RE: Status of Sewer Easement Construction by Creekview Estates
Dear Mr. Johnson:
This letter is in follow-up to your October 25, 1988 letter to Mr.
Ratliff, and our telephone conversation of last week.
As 1 understand the letter most recently sent to you by Nathan Maiers
and Associates, dated October 24, 1988, was their response to your
response and request to revise their design of your requested creek
bank stabilization. As 1 understand, originally their design was to
leave the creek bank natural and not to induce other than natural
materials into the creek bank in the area of the eastment. This
original design was accepted by the City Engineer and the Public
Works Department. They additionally had no objection to your request
to stabilize the creek bank in the easement area vis a vis leaving it
in its natural state.
When you requested 1 look at the situation, some stabilization had
been done and appeared to have deteriorated or failed and/or was
not acceptable to you. With continued liaison with the Development
Inspector Division of the Department of Public Works, 1 inquired into
the situation and monitored from a distance the various meetings and
contacts made known to me between you and the Design Engineer, Nathan
Maier and Associates.
My distance was intentional and calculated. As we discussed last
week, as the City Engineer for the City of Coppell, 1 cannot dictate
to the design of a private licensed engineer, beyond assuring that
the rules, regulations, standards and criteria of the City are met.
In fact, even with retaining a consultant for designing a public
improvement for the City of Coppell, 1 cannot blatently dictate to
their design without their concurrence. If 1 were to seal and sign
the design/construction drawings then I would have more latitude on
what 1 might desire within the design.
Additionally, as I understand this restoration is within an easement
for the sewer line that is on your property. The City's easement is
to operate and maintain a sewer line and not creek bank maintenance.
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Both ends of the design spectrum (i.e. leaving the creek bank in its
natural state and channeling the entire reach of the creek bank) are
acceptable engineering solutions. Both are engineering opinions and
designs, and involve economics, which is another dimension.
Another professional engineer approved these construction drawings
providing another level of professional judgement. As the City
Engineer for the City of Coppell, I must maintain my legal and
professional limits or possibly liable and/or jeopardize the City of
Coppell and my license to practice.
I hope 1 have provided you with what we discussed last week, and
assure you that we have the traditional legal and professional
checkpoints and assurances, and options available to us within the
process. I will work with you and the design engineer (through the
Development Inspector division of the Public Works Department) to
resolve this matter as best we can. Thank you.
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xc: Alan D. Ratliff, City Manager
Shohre Daneshrnand, Civil Engineer
Steve Goram, Construction Control
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