Meadowbrook Ridge, Phase One
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Meadowbrook Ridge P.U.D., Phase One
Shear Engineering provided the design for the utility layout, drainage system, street designs, ditch realignment, and proposed grading.
According to the United States Geological Survey, Meadowbrook Ridge P.U.D., Phase One is located in the West One Half (1/2) of Section 9, Township 5 North, Range 69 West of the 6th prime meridian in the City of Loveland, Colorado. Located on a ridgeline for the Hogback Drainage Basin, this development has great views of the Rocky Mountains to the west. With access to Highway 34 just around the corner on Cascade Avenue, there is easy access for Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park to the west. Further, Carter Lake and Flatiron Reservoir are within fifteen miles to the southwest.
Meadowbrook Ridge P.U.D., Phase One, is the first of a two-phase development. Currently under construction, Phase One will provide a maximum of thirty-two (32) duplexes and one hundred one (101) single-family units on approximately 60.9 acres, with lots ranging from 0.11 to 0.38 acres. Phase Two is currently in the City of Loveland development review design stage.
Meadowbrook Ridge P.U.D., Phase One, presented the following design challenges:
· Providing utilities while meeting the constraints for the City of Loveland
· Meeting the constraints with the City of Loveland Bike and Recreation Trail
· Connecting two major collector streets for the City of Loveland
· Meeting the constraints with the Louden Ditch
· Providing an adequate drainage system to minimize effects on the City of Loveland’s Master Drainage Plan
· Providing stormwater treatment to protect ecological systems downstream
Meadowbrook Ridge P.U.D., Phase One, provides water and sanitary sewer lines for drinking water and sanitary disposal. Throughout the development, 8" water lines provide safe drinking water. Along West 22nd Street a 12" water line was specified to meet City of Loveland’s master utility plan. Further, the water lines between West 22nd and West 29th Streets were connected with a 12" water line to provide connectivity for the City of Loveland. For sanitary sewer service, 8" sanitary sewer lines were designed to gravity feed sewage underneath the Louden Ditch, across the major drainage way for the Hogback Drainage Basin, and into a 12" sanitary sewer line for the City of Loveland.
The City of Loveland’s Bike and Recreation Trail has been constructed along the southern border of Phase One. Traveling down the bike trail from the subdivision to east, one will travel along the Louden Ditch, cross over the ditch on a bridge, wind down the side of the hill, and enter an underpass under US Highway 34. The City of Loveland Parks and Recreation Department designed this trail, but coordination with Shear Engineering Corporation insured proper design of this development to meet the constraints of both the development and the bike trail.
Meadowbrook Ridge benefits the City of Loveland by connecting West 22nd Street to Cascade Avenue. Many of the residents and business employees along Cascade are no longer forced to add traffic volume to Eisenhower Boulevard (US Highway 34). Now they have the freedom to use West 22nd Street in their daily trips.
The Louden Ditch, which runs through the southern and western areas of Phase One, conveys irrigation water from west to east. Crossing the Hogback Drainage Basin, the Louden Ditch accepts significant runoff from the north. Due to the City of Loveland policy, the storm runoff and the irrigation water had to be separated. Thus, the Louden Ditch design was realigned with a box culvert to insure separation between runoff and irrigation water. Continuing to the east from the realigned portion along the Louden Ditch, there are two storm sewer crossings and one sanitary sewer crossing. Further east, the detention pond near the main development area releases stormwater at pre-development rates into the Louden Ditch.
Meadowbrook Ridge provides an adequate drainage system for minor (2-year) and major (100-year) storms. Within the development, a system of storm sewers, inlets, and open channels will convey runoff away from streets, sidewalks, and homes. All drainage conveys into detention ponds, which provide enough allowable volume for storm events to be contained while they are released at pre-development runoff rates. High peaks from development runoff into the City of Loveland Master Drainage system contribute to flooding issues lower in the watershed. These detention ponds aid the City of Loveland Master Drainage Plan by providing lower release rates into Loveland’s Master Drainage System.
Within Phase One, there are two detention ponds. One detention pond is located at the southern boundary within the main development area and releases into the Louden Ditch. The other detention pond is located in the valley of the Hogback Basin east of Cascade Avenue and within the western portion of Phase One above an old farm dam. Here the detention volume was designed for the volume above the permanent water surface and below the top of the dam. Earth Engineering performed a geotechnical investigation of the dam, and determined the existing dam had a hard surface layer with an inner layer insufficient to support additional loading on the structure. Therefore, the dam was excavated to an acceptable soil layer and reconstructed to meet the detention volumes required. Through coordination with the Colorado Division of Water Resources, this dam was classified non-jurisdictional. On an environmental note, after reconstruction of the dam, the ecological system in the pond has remained, which can be verified by the existence of fish in the pond.
Water quality control ponds are designed to filter out suspended solids and other pollutants, which may be harmful to the ecological systems downstream. Located throughout this development, four water quality ponds were designed to detain more frequent and less intense storms that convey higher concentrations of pollutants in the runoff. Thus, the water quality ponds are designed to capture low storm runoff events and provide forty hours to drain, allowing the pollutants to settle out. These water quality ponds are located at the detention pond before entering the Louden Ditch, at the inlets for the storm sewer conveying water to the pond below in the Hogback Drainage Basin, and near the box culvert for West 22nd Street to treat stormwater from the major collector street. To further protect ecological systems downstream, a combination of silt fences, wattles, tracking control pads, and centralized storage of materials are currently being used during construction in accordance with Stormwater Management Plan prepared by Shear Engineering Corporation.
Satisfying the diverse desires, Shear Engineering Corporation provided the design for the utility layout, drainage system, street designs, ditch realignment, and proposed grading. With this project currently under construction, Shear Engineering Corporation continually provides coordination with all involved parties to insure proper and logical construction for the design.
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Shear Engineering provided the design for the utility layout, drainage system, street designs, ditch realignment, and proposed grading.
According to the United States Geological Survey, Meadowbrook Ridge P.U.D., Phase One is located in the West One Half (1/2) of Section 9, Township 5 North, Range 69 West of the 6th prime meridian in the City of Loveland, Colorado. Located on a ridgeline for the Hogback Drainage Basin, this development has great views of the Rocky Mountains to the west. With access to Highway 34 just around the corner on Cascade Avenue, there is easy access for Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park to the west. Further, Carter Lake and Flatiron Reservoir are within fifteen miles to the southwest.
Meadowbrook Ridge P.U.D., Phase One, is the first of a two-phase development. Currently under construction, Phase One will provide a maximum of thirty-two (32) duplexes and one hundred one (101) single-family units on approximately 60.9 acres, with lots ranging from 0.11 to 0.38 acres. Phase Two is currently in the City of Loveland development review design stage.
Meadowbrook Ridge P.U.D., Phase One, presented the following design challenges:
· Providing utilities while meeting the constraints for the City of Loveland
· Meeting the constraints with the City of Loveland Bike and Recreation Trail
· Connecting two major collector streets for the City of Loveland
· Meeting the constraints with the Louden Ditch
· Providing an adequate drainage system to minimize effects on the City of Loveland’s Master Drainage Plan
· Providing stormwater treatment to protect ecological systems downstream
Meadowbrook Ridge P.U.D., Phase One, provides water and sanitary sewer lines for drinking water and sanitary disposal. Throughout the development, 8" water lines provide safe drinking water. Along West 22nd Street a 12" water line was specified to meet City of Loveland’s master utility plan. Further, the water lines between West 22nd and West 29th Streets were connected with a 12" water line to provide connectivity for the City of Loveland. For sanitary sewer service, 8" sanitary sewer lines were designed to gravity feed sewage underneath the Louden Ditch, across the major drainage way for the Hogback Drainage Basin, and into a 12" sanitary sewer line for the City of Loveland.
The City of Loveland’s Bike and Recreation Trail has been constructed along the southern border of Phase One. Traveling down the bike trail from the subdivision to east, one will travel along the Louden Ditch, cross over the ditch on a bridge, wind down the side of the hill, and enter an underpass under US Highway 34. The City of Loveland Parks and Recreation Department designed this trail, but coordination with Shear Engineering Corporation insured proper design of this development to meet the constraints of both the development and the bike trail.
Meadowbrook Ridge benefits the City of Loveland by connecting West 22nd Street to Cascade Avenue. Many of the residents and business employees along Cascade are no longer forced to add traffic volume to Eisenhower Boulevard (US Highway 34). Now they have the freedom to use West 22nd Street in their daily trips.
The Louden Ditch, which runs through the southern and western areas of Phase One, conveys irrigation water from west to east. Crossing the Hogback Drainage Basin, the Louden Ditch accepts significant runoff from the north. Due to the City of Loveland policy, the storm runoff and the irrigation water had to be separated. Thus, the Louden Ditch design was realigned with a box culvert to insure separation between runoff and irrigation water. Continuing to the east from the realigned portion along the Louden Ditch, there are two storm sewer crossings and one sanitary sewer crossing. Further east, the detention pond near the main development area releases stormwater at pre-development rates into the Louden Ditch.
Meadowbrook Ridge provides an adequate drainage system for minor (2-year) and major (100-year) storms. Within the development, a system of storm sewers, inlets, and open channels will convey runoff away from streets, sidewalks, and homes. All drainage conveys into detention ponds, which provide enough allowable volume for storm events to be contained while they are released at pre-development runoff rates. High peaks from development runoff into the City of Loveland Master Drainage system contribute to flooding issues lower in the watershed. These detention ponds aid the City of Loveland Master Drainage Plan by providing lower release rates into Loveland’s Master Drainage System.
Within Phase One, there are two detention ponds. One detention pond is located at the southern boundary within the main development area and releases into the Louden Ditch. The other detention pond is located in the valley of the Hogback Basin east of Cascade Avenue and within the western portion of Phase One above an old farm dam. Here the detention volume was designed for the volume above the permanent water surface and below the top of the dam. Earth Engineering performed a geotechnical investigation of the dam, and determined the existing dam had a hard surface layer with an inner layer insufficient to support additional loading on the structure. Therefore, the dam was excavated to an acceptable soil layer and reconstructed to meet the detention volumes required. Through coordination with the Colorado Division of Water Resources, this dam was classified non-jurisdictional. On an environmental note, after reconstruction of the dam, the ecological system in the pond has remained, which can be verified by the existence of fish in the pond.
Water quality control ponds are designed to filter out suspended solids and other pollutants, which may be harmful to the ecological systems downstream. Located throughout this development, four water quality ponds were designed to detain more frequent and less intense storms that convey higher concentrations of pollutants in the runoff. Thus, the water quality ponds are designed to capture low storm runoff events and provide forty hours to drain, allowing the pollutants to settle out. These water quality ponds are located at the detention pond before entering the Louden Ditch, at the inlets for the storm sewer conveying water to the pond below in the Hogback Drainage Basin, and near the box culvert for West 22nd Street to treat stormwater from the major collector street. To further protect ecological systems downstream, a combination of silt fences, wattles, tracking control pads, and centralized storage of materials are currently being used during construction in accordance with Stormwater Management Plan prepared by Shear Engineering Corporation.
Satisfying the diverse desires, Shear Engineering Corporation provided the design for the utility layout, drainage system, street designs, ditch realignment, and proposed grading. With this project currently under construction, Shear Engineering Corporation continually provides coordination with all involved parties to insure proper and logical construction for the design.
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