Engineering Advice

Engineering Advice

One of the reasons we chose this as our first project as we saw very few issues with doing the subdivision, ie cost of getting all the services hooked up. We initially thought that all the services would be available up Lowe Street. However, as you can see from the plan below that we acquired from Council, the sewer runs up Crusoe Road. We weren't sure how much it could add to the subdivision cost.  

Fortunately we know an engineer who gave us some advice a couple of days ago about the sewer and storm  water...which was helpful.

Sewer and water

Stormwater

Sewer:

The water authority will require a mains extension because it is in the road reserve. Cost should be around $150/m, approximate cost would be around $4500.

Storm Water:

Two options; we could connect to the pit which is out the front, or just put a standard pipe out into the curb and channel. The latter option would ultimately be cheaper.

Survey:

Our engineering friend also gave us some very good advice in that we should get the surveyor which we contract to do our Plan of Subdivision to take levels of the sewer and storm water while he was out there. This would save us some money as our engineering company could draw up plans using these and not need to send out there own surveyor. The notations on the plans are about the locations of levels and what kind of levels would be required; natural surface, curb and channel and pipe inverts.