Over the past three years, LJA Engineering has been working with Crowley Development on numerous engineering tasks (from feasibility studies to design) for a 750-acre tract located on the south side of the City of College Station. Plans for the development consist of 380 acres of residential subdivisions, and 110 acres of commercial development.
To date, LJA has provided such services as a master drainage analysis, which included a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) for existing conditions and a Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR) for developed conditions. The project has also involved environmental permitting (approval of a Section 404 permit from the Corps of Engineers), the design of the City of College Station's Phase II major sanitary trunkline for the Spring Creek Drainage Basin, and detention pond design, for the first phase of Castle Gate Communities, a 290-acre single-family community located on the south side of the 750-acre development.
Currently LJA has received approvals for the LOMR, CLOMR, and 404 Permit; both the sanitary sewer trunkline and the detention pond are under construction.
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Bee Creek during Spring rainfall event |
Furthermore, LJA has contracted with the City of College Station to provide engineering services for a drainage study along Bee Creek Tributary "A". The study will provide a recommended plan for alleviating flooding along the Bee Creek tributary. As part of the study various alternative solutions were examined to determine the best solution for reduction of floodplain, along with environmental and construction cost concerns. The study will include a CLOMR, construction plans for the channelization of approximately 3000 linear feet of Bee Creek, environmental permitting, and a LOMR once construction is complete. Construction of the channelization for Bee Creek is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2002.
