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Andy Schwaller
Monday, April24,2017 L2:58 PM
Matt Provost; Jim Wilson
Drainage Study Lot 20 Blue Creek
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I spoke with Dan Finny about the drainage on the North side of his house. They will be báck filling in the next couple of
days. I requested they get an engineer to sign off on the drainage and/or provide gutters to keep the stormwater
drainage on his property or to an approved curb and gutter street drainage plan prior to C.O.. I will put a copy of this
email in the file.
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Garfield County Building Department
Chief Building Official
Andy Schwaller
979-945-t377
April 16,2017
Paul Andersen
301 Ponderosa Pass
Blue Creek Ranch
Carbondaleo County
970-618-2340
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There is a home being constructed next to mine by Dan
King--cell phone 970-948-1860. The contractor is Scott
Kane--cell phone 970-948-9024. I donot know the exact
street number because none ß posted.
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My house and the house being constructed by Mr. King
are only 10 feet apart. My roof drains east-west except
for a small section at the back southeast corner.
Whereas Mr. King's house has large roof sections front
to back draining into this narrow space between the
houses.
I asked Mr. King what his water mitigation plan was in
regard to nr-assive amount of water coming off his roof
into this narrow space between the houses. I mentioned
that as General Contractor in Aspen for over 30 years
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had seen the serious damage that water can do.
I told Mr. King that I was concerned that my footers
could be impacted from this run off or that the soils
below could become saturated and the hydrostatic
pressure could buckle my floors.
I also mentioned that given a heavy pro longed
rainstorm that the areù between the houses could flood
and the water could be forced up under the metal
skirting. Thereby the interior of both houses could
sustain water damage.
I suggested to Mr. King that he get a hydrologist to
analyze the dynamics of the situation and to design a
mitigation plan. He thought that was a good idea as
long as f paid for it. That was when I decided not to say
anything further but simply to contact you in this
regard.
The water table is five feet below the street. I built my
house on stable soil and after 11 years there has been no
settling or cracking. I want that to be the case going
forwardo
My footers are only 5 or so feet below grade and lilere
designed and built to code. So it would be easily
possible given a large amount of run off for it saturate
the soil under my footers and slab.
When building the house next door they had water
issues and had to excavate deeper and backfill. The
footers rvere redesigned and are much farther below
grade than mine.
I asked Mr. King what they planned to do to manage
the water pouring off his roof. He said they were going
to simply create sloping channel for it to run toward
the street. This at a minimum would pond and flood the
electrical vault.
In any case before a Certificate of Occupancy is issued a
a drainage mitigation plan by a professional must be
submitted-- approved and implemented. There is a
major problem here that could result in serious and
expensive damage. I am sure the Garfield Building
Department does not want the liability. As for me I
don't want my home negatively impacted.
I think the owner and contractor should be notified that
there is an Íssue before they call for the CO as a matter
of courtesy.
Respectfully yours,
Paul Andersen
Best License #:7
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