DR8902-CS 871020 COPPELL PUBLIC WORKS
MEMORANDUM
October 20, 1987
TO: Steve Goram, Director of Public Works
FROM: Steven M. Morton, Chief of Land Development
RE: Resident Complaint at 632 Bethel School
Mr. Goram,as per your request for a report, on October 6, I
received a phone call from Mr. Doug Jones of 632 Bethel School
Road. His complaint was as follows:
The large 40 ft. drainage easement which contains a drainage
ditch that runs behind his house, perpendicular .with Bethel
School, was eroding, not following the center of the easement,
and was collecting debris several lots upstream from his. His
fear was that a child or individual would be hurt in this
unmaintained ditch situation. The bank were so steep and eroded
that he could not maintain said bank.
Upon arriving on site with Dale Jackson, we looked at the ditch
and evaluated that it indeed had eroded. It was approximately
10 ft. towards Mr. Jones' property, but still contained in the
drainage easement and indeed upstream it had been collecting
debris. The situation is caused by::
1. The home building that is going on, (adjacent to the creek)
are pushing their dirt onto the banks and restricting the bank.
2. There is a 18" storm drain pipe that goes between the houses
that discharges at a 90° angle with the creek instead of in
the general flow of the creek. This is causing the water to
spin and boil in that one place as eroded out a large cove.
3. The collection of debris is due to the fact that the creek
is not maintained or maintainable at this time.
Some solutions that Dale and I talked about were:
We would contact Steve Parsons of Troft Enterprises, who is
the developer of this subdivision, Northlake Woodlands IV and
request that he also aid us in having the new home 'construction
that is progessing at this time return the bank to its design
and original condition. To clear the underbrush, so that the
new resident may maintain it. Mr. Parsons is to contact the
contractor who installed the pipe with a concrete cradle and
see about turning the pipe to discharge the water into the general
flow of the creek as by plans.
Dale and I also discussed '~.-. the possibili.ties,'~?o:
Inspections contacting Land Development prior..to the
houses that back drainage easements or creeks
for the creek bank reconstruction. :
As for the debris, the creeks~ and the dra~nag'
the way upstr~-am that have not "been' maint'ained .andj~trees, .... small
trees, saplings ha,re been allowed '~o grow.: 5~:~rBag.;.~'jea~'~mene..'~:~.
A combSnarion of ehae and the h~gh weeds 5n ~he cr~k.~a~ allowSng
debrSs o be collected 5n ehem, .causSng dams and~.also~compoun'd~ng
on the tproblem of the rate of flow of~ the~.,w~ter';~?There::.has
also been another meeting which you were involved:~[~ith,'2~;which~
' Car 1,~'?~ Ba
consisted of Per Birdsall, myself, yourself
Thank you.
cc: Per BirdS~l'l, Street Foreman
Carl Bass, Water Utilities Foreman
Dale Jackson, Building Official .