DR8902-CS 880727 COPPELL PUBLIC ~ORK$ t~
July 27, 1988
TO: Steve Goram, Director of Public Works
FROM: Steven M. Morton, Chief Developmental Inspector
RE: 632 Bethel School Rd.
Steve, the erosion/drainage ~'~blem ~hind Don Jones' house has
been ongoing since Mr. Jones brought this problem forward for
City assistance nearly six months ago. Briefly, the situation
was a overgrown, terribly eroded with washed out creek, which
the property owners own to the center line of creek. At Mr. Jones'
northeast property line, there was a 8' deep x 20' diameter washout,
and the flowline of the creek was being pushed towards Mr. Jones'
rear property line and had severely eroded the bank by a 24" R.C.P.
storm drainage pipe discharge water from Hawk Ln. from that point
to Bethel School Rd., the creek had erorded more of the soil on
both sides of the creek to the culvert (these banks were virtually
vertical). The 4 lots up stream (north) of Mr. Jones' property
had debris that had bridged the eroded creek and would not support
a childs weight. This is how I 'became involved. I responded
to Mr. Jones' concern for childrens~ safety.
Since that time Mr. Jones has terraced his property 'along the
creek, sodded banks, and aligned creek back to its proper location.
Mr. Jones had improved the condition of creek and discharged entries
100% from their original condition 6 months ago. I have directed
Mr. Jones to our floodplain administrator Kevin Peiffer several
times, so Kevin could be aware of the situation. Kevin had no
problem with the improvements. When I first went to the site
to evaluate the condition I included Per Birdsall, Carl Bass,
and later was joined by Dale Jackson. This situation is what
started Building Inspections and Development Inspections' joint
effort to correct this condition before they got to the point
that Mr. Jones was faced with.
This project is totally on a existing residential site. My position
on this was as a courtesy to Mr. Jones to aid him in contacting
the proper persons within the City who could assist him. I also,
from time to time, responded to his request for 'in~ormation.'on
construction standards. I became Mr. Jones' con~act person ~for
information, but I was 'not in control or in. chargelo~ what has
been done. Mr. Jones on his own initative and expense has made
the improvements to the creek and should in my opinion, be applauded
for a job well done .-~
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