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NOBLESVILLE, INDIANA 46060
Dear Plan Commission Members:
Pursuant to your request the attached report was prepared for your considera-
tion concerning the Brookshire North Section 3 Final
The report was prepared by the Soil Conservation Service at our request.
In addition to the Planning Commission this report is sent to the landowner
or developer or their representatives, and to the other units of government
i .e. : County Health Board, County Highway Department, County Drainage
Board, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water (flood
control ) , and others, whichever applies.
The findings and suggestions contained herein is basic resource information
on soils and their limitations, water and its management, erosion and
methods of control , and other related resources.
The basic resource -information provided by this District is to be used by
the Planning Commission, Board of Zoning Appeals, Town Board , and other .
units, of government for the purpose of making land use and land treatment
decisions. These Units of Government are empowered by State Statute to
make these decisions. The district does not have this responsibility.
The District will continue to provide consultative assistance to the
Commission , their engineers and representatives, the landowners and
developers or their engineers and others upon request to this Board.
Respectfully yours,
61,1012-a . 4 ' /, k
Donald Dunkerly
ChaIrman
Board of Supervisors
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
925 Division Street, P.O. Box 279 Noblesville , Indiana 46060
INVENTORY & EVALUATION (119)
UNITS OF GOVERNMENT
REQUESTED BY . Carmel Plan Commission LOCATION ; Clay12/12/75
r SUBJECT : Brookshire North Section 3 Final DATE .
ASSISTED BY ; Tom Schellenberger_District Conservationist
SITUATION: Developer wishes to construct single family residences
with sanitary
sewers , storm sewers, roll curb and gutter section ,.,
swales , and the storm drainage will outlet into a retention reser_
voir.
SOILS : Refer to the original soils report as prepared itttheF�ime
of the submission and the approval of the preliminary
2platthisof area
om
that soils report you will notice that app oil which
is Brookston soil (Br) which is a very poorlyrr ained dnedlswhich then
is characteristic of having a seasonal high
becomes very important for the installation of basements and crawl
spaces. The permeability isstows�oWning that and thereforemovement
dampness and
water
down through the soil profile oass around the ome can bivery
definite
and
severe
problem;for all of thabove reasonsthssoil has asevere limitation for
the intended use even though storm sewers are being used.
WATER MANAGEMENT: The engineer has done a good job of laying out
the storm drainage syssoilem so tandorm thesinletswers are arelocated in
predominantly
predominantly the BrookstonHowever the storm sewers
in the lowest part of the topography.
do not solve the internal draa9ewp�hbheookshireexists
that armajority
n
soils and has been characteristicpumps and
of the homes will have basements which then requiresnsump pumpsthe and
then the difficulty of outiettjng the sump pump.
mes
homes
will be adjacent to a notrsewer
htoastormewerhav
eesthose
e nooutlet her
in the Brookston soil adjacent
for that either a peripheral drain around the footers or a sump pump
therefore as has been customary the developer should provider unity
subsurface drain outlet to periphera[ot odraen rathey can re an thanoutletting
to outlet the sump pump purpose.
into the curb or swae °routlet intoare
stormgsedwersrorh other sub_
The subsurface drainsmay roof
surfacerinsis howetoey are handlenot thatnamoded to be unt of water.d There are
drains unless designed
approximately 18 or 19 lots that don't have access to a storm sewer
or an existing subsurface drain
inlwhich some type of a subsurface
drain should be provided to
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE Noblesville , Indiana 46060
925 Division Street , P.O. Box 279
Page 2 _ Brookshire North Section 3 Final
Again no erosion control plan has been submitted
at and it is suggested that the engineer
w
EROSION CONTROL: themselves and
along thiswt finalhedeveloperfinaplat
a plan either by
with toht officonjunction with this office asoist
submit it this office or in
the Soil and Water Conservation District would be happy
to them in the erosion control plan.
J layout of
RETENTION RESionERVser
On sheet 13 does show a proposed of the
have the water elevation and retention reservoir with some details of the outletting h
theretention it also doesappearsn a
- typical reservoir; however it
- eecrosst section of the pawork here
poolei elevation ,
ca
thtre needs to be some additional WOrtheenormaldtermtne the caps_
cto
of thegretentionoorteoertoir from a considerable
the high pool elevation to be b which di-akesmle the amountof
capacity 9Even
for the area to be served Section 4•
amount of the proposed Section 3 and proposed at Section 3 it is
though the retention reso1howeves rtit may be the intent of the
engineern with provseide
final planss ofto be some detail of
to provide the retention rererneed information with as
SectsFurther the
Section 4 o thatsetime.
how
the storm sewers will outlet ;fie°drainageretention
comesreservoir
dow
well as some more detailoof e ow iard taken under nge eser_
Road hooks into either the reervoir or the existing 14"
tile Gray hat will be eventually relocatedIn addition there will
plan for specifically therretention
n
veer to theemain outletostormosewer. erosion or action
reservoireebe toainsureerosiotn control along the bank action fromthewind ttwaater againstlespecially k
on
y on the
ewthat the engineer has these details in his
officefay Road.nI are required for Section 3-or and whether they
is at the desecration of the committee• considered in Section 1
e was not c sewers
and Note: The addition subsurface drainage out[etting of the storm
of the
and in details for The
in Section 1 and also Sectorsio saod Section l4tare not shown. The
onlypton reservoirheeiandtPon it is difficult to determine
point here is later to the plan or whether there was enough
constructionswas accordingtwhatnwasen intendedwwithoutt
criteriad
to do the constructioand then when we run into
aepiob
the engineer's concept and proposal
problem if is difficult to determinestee slopes, in this case
toeing eome detailoshowing slope intosa flood
prevent erosion especially where overpa steep
along Cool Creek and the outlettingleen for sub-
plain.lain. Further in Section 1 consideration was not g
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
Page 3
surface drainage and again the point is that those homes that
will require subsurface drainage for the outletting of the sump
pump or the peripheral drain will not access to a storm sewer
or a subsurface drain.
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— — Tom Schellenberger
District Conservationist
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