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PO Box 1062, Avon Colorado 81620 (970) 748-0274
November 7, 2012
Tom Kassmel, PE
Town of Vail Engineer
75 S. Frontage Road
Vail, CO 81657
RE: Town of Vail Golf and Nordic Clubhouse Remodel
Preliminary Drainage Memo
Dear Tom:
This letter is to describe the overall drainage concepts that the design team is
proposing for the Vail Golf and Nordic Clubhouse Remodel Project. The following
concepts are incorporated into our current grading plan and will be confirmed via a
formal drainage report as the project progress through the Town approval process:
1. Drainage from the Mountain to the South of the Project Site
a) The drainage from the mountainside south of the Project has historically
flooded the parking lot for this site. The worst of this flooding has
historically occurred during the spring snowmelt runoff. This runoff
comes down from the mountainside, crosses underneath Sunburst Drive
in twin culverts, runs between the fourth and fifth houses east of the
Project parking lot, and then is currently caught by the golf course
service road and runs down the service road to the Project parking lot.
The intent of our project, is to let this water run underneath the service
road by installing culverts under the service road These pipes are
currently called out as twin 24” HDPE culverts on Sheet C4.1. MARCIN
will confirm these pipe sizes with calculations in the formal Drainage
Report.
b) Once this water is piped under the service road east of the project
parking lot, the intent is to run the water in a newly constructed
drainage ditch around the project as depicted on Sheet C4.1. This
drainage ditch will be sized in the Drainage Report, but is preliminarily
sized as being two feet deep with 4H:1V side slopes and a four foot flat
bottom. These slopes will provide the ability to easily mow the ditch
while mowing the surrounding golf course. The ditch will have to cross
under the golf cart path with culverts and is currently depicted as going
underneath one of the proposed driving range nets off the northeast
corner of the building.
c) As the ditch crosses in front of the north side of the Project, the ditch will
pick up stormwater from the parking lot piping system and then the
ditch will run northwest across the driving range and flow into the pond
north of the driving range tee box. We have the proposed flowline of the
ditch at the pond set two feet above the pond water surface elevation to
account for two feet of freeboard in the pond.
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PO Box 1062, Avon Colorado 81620 (970) 748-0274
2. Drainage from the Project Parking Lot and Building Area
a) Drainage from the parking lot will be directed to the center of the parking
lot and will flow down a valley pan in the center of the parking lot at the
natural grade of the parking lot (ranging from 0.9% to 3%).
b) At the north of the parking lot, the water will flow into a 2’x3’ valley inlet
and the flow down into the drainage swale described above (see 1.c
above).
c) Three other inlets will catch water from the paved cart area west of the
building and will drain into the same pipe system flowing north to the
driving range ditch. The northerly inlet will tentatively be a naturalized
‘bioswale’ with appropriate plants to help filter sediment and chemicals
in run-off while allowing infiltration back into the ground. If a ‘bioswale’
is not possible due to site constraints then a Stormceptor Water Quality
Control Chamber that will treat the stormwater prior to releasing it onto
the golf course will be considered in lieu of a bioswale..
d) All piping described here will be sized accordingly in the formal Drainage
Report to be prepared by MARCIN.
e) All other water that is not caught by the parking lot drainage system (i.e.
on the south, east and north side of the building) will be graded to drain
into the ditch system described in Item 1 above.
The above concepts are how Marcin Engineering proposes to safely pass the rainfall
and snowmelt drainage events through the site. MARCIN is open to further ideas on
how to optimize these solutions and looks forward to working with the Project Team
and the Town of Vail towards Construction Documents and building a successful
project.
Sincerely,
MARCIN ENGINEERING LLC
Paul Anderson, PE