July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
County crews working on city drain project (9/28/04)
Surveyor's employees, city cooperating in effort to improve drainage near hospital
Employees of the county surveyor’s office are helping with a project that could help storm drainage in northwest Portland.
Crews from the surveyor’s office are working along with city employees on the project on the grounds of Jay County Hospital.
A dry storm water detention area at the southwest corner of the hospital parking lot, which currently drains into a combined sewer, is being re-routed to drain into a storm-only tile that begins between the hospital and Heritage Commons retirement community.
Jay County surveyor Brad Daniels told Jay County Commissioners Monday his employees are assisting with laying a new, deeper outlet tile for the retention pond at the retirement center. The detention area on the hospital property will be connected with the new tile.
Daniels said there was nothing implicitly wrong with the drainage system in place, but Portland officials wanted to direct the water into a storm drain as opposed to the combined sewer line. The move could allow the combined sewer to flow better during times of heavy rain.
Also Monday, the commissioners, meeting as the county drainage board, reviewed preliminary plans for a major expansion at a church in Bearcreek Township.
Greg Miller, representing Westchester United Methodist Church, showed the commissioners the plans for a new sanctuary to be located south of the current church building. The church is located on county road 400 North, just west of county road 450 East.
The plans shown by Miller did not have any storm water run-off calculations or include plans to hold water back. Miller was told by Daniels and the commissioners that the county’s drainage ordinance requires that any additional run-off created by construction be held back in some way — either by a detention pond, a grass swale or a reduction in the size of a tile.
Miller said the church would ask the engineer on the project to develop a storm water run-off plan.
Two Greene Township farmers and Daniels also discussed a tile that needs to be repaired in the Brooks Creek Watershed.
The A. Claycomb Tile, which is located on the north side of county road 200 South near county road 800 West, runs from the southeast to the northwest through property owned and farmed by Dick Zeigler and Ralph Homan in Greene and Knox townships.
Daniels said he knows about half of the tile is broken down and needs to be replaced. The other half, which runs under a corn field, has not been checked.
Commissioners Mike Leonhard, Gary Theurer and Milo Miller Jr. told Daniels to check further into the matter after the corn has been harvested.
The tile is 15 inches in diameter from Claycomb Cemetery to the west, and is a 10-inch east of the cemetery.
The total length of the tile from county road 200 South to Brooks Creek is almost exactly a mile.[[In-content Ad]]
Crews from the surveyor’s office are working along with city employees on the project on the grounds of Jay County Hospital.
A dry storm water detention area at the southwest corner of the hospital parking lot, which currently drains into a combined sewer, is being re-routed to drain into a storm-only tile that begins between the hospital and Heritage Commons retirement community.
Jay County surveyor Brad Daniels told Jay County Commissioners Monday his employees are assisting with laying a new, deeper outlet tile for the retention pond at the retirement center. The detention area on the hospital property will be connected with the new tile.
Daniels said there was nothing implicitly wrong with the drainage system in place, but Portland officials wanted to direct the water into a storm drain as opposed to the combined sewer line. The move could allow the combined sewer to flow better during times of heavy rain.
Also Monday, the commissioners, meeting as the county drainage board, reviewed preliminary plans for a major expansion at a church in Bearcreek Township.
Greg Miller, representing Westchester United Methodist Church, showed the commissioners the plans for a new sanctuary to be located south of the current church building. The church is located on county road 400 North, just west of county road 450 East.
The plans shown by Miller did not have any storm water run-off calculations or include plans to hold water back. Miller was told by Daniels and the commissioners that the county’s drainage ordinance requires that any additional run-off created by construction be held back in some way — either by a detention pond, a grass swale or a reduction in the size of a tile.
Miller said the church would ask the engineer on the project to develop a storm water run-off plan.
Two Greene Township farmers and Daniels also discussed a tile that needs to be repaired in the Brooks Creek Watershed.
The A. Claycomb Tile, which is located on the north side of county road 200 South near county road 800 West, runs from the southeast to the northwest through property owned and farmed by Dick Zeigler and Ralph Homan in Greene and Knox townships.
Daniels said he knows about half of the tile is broken down and needs to be replaced. The other half, which runs under a corn field, has not been checked.
Commissioners Mike Leonhard, Gary Theurer and Milo Miller Jr. told Daniels to check further into the matter after the corn has been harvested.
The tile is 15 inches in diameter from Claycomb Cemetery to the west, and is a 10-inch east of the cemetery.
The total length of the tile from county road 200 South to Brooks Creek is almost exactly a mile.[[In-content Ad]]
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