HomeMy WebLinkAbout011a Watercourse Correspondence CityFrom:Brian Heaston
To:matthausauer@gmail.com
Subject:RE: 4840 Fowler - Watercourse
Date:Monday, June 12, 2023 8:40:25 AM
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Hi Matt – You’ll need to provide info with the application to demonstrate that the ditch is abandoned on the subject property. Please
get with Kevin Haggerty with the MCDC to discuss the ditch and the development. Document those discussions in writing and provide
with the application. If there’s stormwater discharge to the ditch currently that conveyance will need to be maintained somehow.
Agreed that the facility is a ditch and not a watercourse. Will need easement for drainage, perhaps irrigation.
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Subject: 4840 Fowler - Watercourse
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Hey Brian,
I hope your summer is off to a great start. I’m working on a new site plan on the recently annexed 4840 Fowler property which is just
west of Gran Cielo I. There is a ditch/watercourse on the east side of the property which, to my understanding, all water rights have
been abandoned (I believe that Buffalo Run worked to abandon all remaining rights). This ditch runs through the west side of Gran Cielo
in the back of the single-family lots on the west end. We have not observed water in this ditch this spring nor in the late summer/fall of
2022. It appears that the stormwater pond in the northwest corner of Gran Cielo discharges to the ditch.
My interpretation is that this ditch/watercourse would not be subject to the 50-ft watercourse setback as it appears to be fully
controlled by irrigation facilities (that are likely abandoned now), does not see natural water/seepage (no water has been observed in
the ditch this spring even with the very high groundwater levels being observed across the City), and was not considered jurisdictional
for the recently platted Gran Cielo Subdivision (no setback was applied to this ditch, single family lots are platted adjacent to the ditch).
Would you agree with this analysis?
We are planning to keep the ditch open regardless and the proposed site plan has it running through a proposed City Park on the east
side of the site (rough concept attached). The only planned disturbances to the ditch will be from extending Bennett Blvd and Apex
Drive to maintain the local street grid in the area.
Please let me know if you have any questions – I’d be happy to walk the site at any time if you would like. Thanks!
Best,
Matt
Matt Hausauer
(406) 599-9124
matthausauer@gmail.com