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Kerby Kirkham [kerby@thelandgroupinc.com]
Tuesday, November 01, 20054:25 PM
Brad Watson
RE: Lighthouse Ridge (aka Morning Dove)
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Brad,
Thank you for your reply and the timeliness in getting back to me. I do have one question for you at this point. Would
the city split the property and release just the lower portion of the site or is it arguable that it would not make sense to
split the site with the impact boundary line and in that case, the whole property should be released. I am interested to
know how the city would deal with that as this will drive where and how we focus our efforts in developing this property. If
we need to, I am willing to meet with you and/or the planning and zoning department on this to determine the direction
the city will go with this issue.
Again, I appreciate your time and help in this. If you have any further questions or comments, please email me here at
this address or you can call me at 939-4041. Thank you.
Kerby $. Kirkham, PE
The land Group, Inc.
462 E. Shore Drive, Suite 100
Eagle, ID 83616
Ph. 208.939.4041
Fax 208.939.4445
-----Original Message----
From: Brad Watson [mailto:watsonb@meridiancity.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 01,20053:19 PM
To: Kerby Kirkham
Subject: Lighthouse Ridge (aka Morning Dove)
Kerby,
I received the information you submitted regarding the sewerability of the above-referenced project. I
also visited the site this moming.
It is obvious that the area on the hillside slope and the area along Ten Mile Creek will not sewer to the
future Meridian system by gravity. However, the area on the ridge may. Your letter states "based
upon the existing topography... .it (is) basically impossible for the City of Meridian to be able to seNe
the entire site within the city's referral area with gravity sewer." The key word is that sentence is
"entire". I agree that the entire site cannot be served by gravity sewer to Meridian. Since you did not
provide any topographical information or relate it to our sewer master plan invert elevations, I cannot
determine from your submittal that the City of Meridian sewer system could never serve the upper
portion of the property by gravity.
As development stretches out along our sewer trunk system, we are always adamant that the sewer
be as deep, or deeper, than the elevations shown on our sewer master plan. Even though the design
of the trunk that would ultimately serve the upper area of the project is indeed years away, I have no
reason to believe based on our track record that it will be higher than in the master plan.
At this time, I cannot recommend to Council to release the portion of the site which appears to
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ultimately be seNiceable to Meridian sewer. You are welcome to contact our engineering staff (Clint
Dolsby would be the best contact) to obtain master plan trunk elevations which would allow you to do
a more detailed sewerability study. Please note that for the upper portion, we would be looking for
detailed topography, potential sewer line routing and sewer invert/surface elevations rather than
qualitative statements regarding sewerability.
Brad
Brad Watson, P.E.
Public Wor1ts Director
Meridian Public Works Dept.
660 E. Watertower, Suite 200
Meridian, ID 83642
(208)898-5500
(208)898-9551 fax
watsonb@meridiancity.org
www.meridiancitv.ora
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