The Heart of Cuyahoga County

City of Independence, Ohio “THE HEART OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY”

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT 6335 SELIG DRIVE  INDEPENDENCE, OH 44131-5045 (216) 524-1374  FAX (216) 573-1592 www.independenceohio.org

InterOffice Memo TO: Mayor Kurtz / City Council FROM: D. Ramm – City Engineer RE: City Council Report DATE: Tuesday, June 10, 2014

The Engineering Department reports the following items from this past month’s activities:

 Two (2) site plans for new homes were approved, one for S/L 5 Twin Creeks Ct, the other for S/L 18 Lake Charles Drive  Three (3) right-of-way permits were issued o two (2) to Time Warner to install fiber optic cable at residences on Archwood and Sycamore. o One (1) permit to AT&T to install cable at a residence on Lake Charles Drive  Two (2) misc. Commercial permits were issued to replace parking lots on Rockside and West Creek Roads  Two (2) residential permits were issued to residents to replace driveways/aprons on Brookside Road and Valley Woods Drive.  Two (2) plumbing permits were issued to residents to repair sewer pipe Sunset Ave. and to install sewer pipe on Kingscote Park.  A commercial plumbing and miscellaneous permit was issued to Sports Contracting Group to re-turf the football field. That project is well underway.

 We have coordinated construction of our current asphalt and concrete road maintenance and repair contracts: o Catts Construction has worked in the Dalebrook Estates Subdivision, the Midland/Timberlane/Scenicview/Ranchview Subdivision, North Rockside Woods Boulevard, West Creek and Jefferson Roads.

o Chagrin Valley Paving performed asphalt paving on large segments of East Sprague Road and Stone Road. They performed small joint repairs on Valley Woods, Pine Ridge Oval, South Great Oaks, Jefferson Street and West Creek.

 Lastly, and by far, we have spent the majority of this past month working with the Service Department to respond to the flood event of May 12th.  A good amount of calls were received from the event, reporting a range of sanitary sewer basement backups, storm sewer basement back-ups and miscellaneous other issues of creek, yard and/or street flooding conditions

o We assisted the Service Department to assess conditions requiring clean-up and/or restoration as well as coordinated the immediate response of contractors to remove debris and log jambs from creeks in the Brookside Road areas, as well as to fix damaged roads and berms on E. Pleasant Valley Road and Brookside Road. . Resolution 2014-87 on tonight’s agenda will authorize a total of $250,000 for clean-up and restoration from flooding. Additionally, Resolution 2014-91 authorizes $150,000 for new improvements to creeks and storm sewers.

o In Concert with the Service Department, we have begun to meet with residents on a property-by-property basis to understand how the flooding occurred and to make appointments to inspect and televise house sewers in hopes to identify how we might mitigate future flooding.