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water drainage from new garage at 1513 Bay Ridge Road Page 1 of 1 From: trippsnyder<trippsnyder@aol.com> To: cmattson <cmattson@ci.orono.mn.us>; mcurtis<mcurtis@ci.orono.mn.us>; scott<scott@brekkeconstruction.com> Cc: pamelakroeger<pamelakroeger@aol.com> Subject: water drainage from new garage at 1513 Bay Ridge Road Date: Mon, Oct 10, 2011 11:38 am Chris: Per our telephone conversation of a few minutes ago, please be advised of the following: 1. The new gargage addition will have a full gutter system all the way around the structure. Those gutters will tie in to, and be seamlessly connected to the existing gutter system which goes all the way around the house. We will be using the existing down spouts from the existing gutter system to carry rain water from the roof to the ground. For the new garage area, the two down spouts that will be taking water flow are the ones currently located on the north and south sides of the current garage. The downspout on the south side drains into the roughly 8 1/2 feet of side yard between our house and Scott's, and the one on the north side had drained into what was a brick patio. As part of this garage addition, we have already removed the brick patio, and the area that was brick will now be a vegetable/flower garden, so that down spout will now drain into this garden. 2. We were not planning to change the topgraphy or slope on the south side of the house. That is the area which is currently mostly concrete. We have already removed most of this concrete, so absorbtion of rainfall into the ground on this side of the house should in fact be increased, as it will now not be flowing down a fairly steep concrete walkway. We are going to add plantings on this south side of the house next spring once the snow melts, but have not picked out the exact type of plants yet, and will probably let the experts at either Otten Bros or Bachman's do that for us. By the time the construction is done this fall it will be too late to plant. I will print out and bring over later this afternoon a annotated survey for the south side of the house that shows the anticipated location of the soil erosion fencing during the construction process, and on that same expanded survey I will add in arrows showing existing water flow. The direction of water flow should not change once the new garage is in. As noted much earlier in this process, the entire area to be covered by the new garage is already hard cover, and thus the new garage is not creating any additional water flow to be absorbed by the remaining lawn, flowers, etc than is already the case. Tripp Snyder 612-309-7050 http://mail.aol.com/34188-111/aol-6/en-us/mail/PrintMessage.aspx 10/10/2011