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Home My WebLink AboutRE: 22-1217 365 Elm St Mike Plane From:Kristi Fehringer Sent:Tuesday, October 18, 2022 08:50 To:Dakota Ray Cc:Jon Victor; Troy Vitek Subject:RE: 22-1217 365 Elm St Good Morning Dakota, Since the neighbor is unresponsive and unwilling to give you access through his yard, your only alternative is to install 40 +/- feet of 8” sewer main in Elm Circle North. This 8” sewer main would tie into the existing sewer manhole located in Elm Circle North and extend far enough east to accommodate a service connection for your proposed house. This 8” sewer main would need to be designed by an engineering firm and approved by the City of Twin Falls Engineering Department as well as DEQ. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Kristi Fehringer Lead Engineering Technician 208.735.7332 kfehringer@tfid.org 203 Main Ave. E. Twin Falls, ID 83301 From: Dakota Ray <dakotaray3520@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2022 10:10 AM To: Kristi Fehringer <KFehringer@tfid.org> Cc: Jon Victor <JVictor@tfid.org>; Troy Vitek <tvitek@tfid.org> Subject: Re: 22-1217 365 Elm St \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] Hi Kristi, I have been working on this sewer connection with the neighbor Dustin Gudenau with no luck. He is unresponsive and unwilling to let us access through his yard. I am wondering what the next step is to get City services to the building lot? 1 Seems crazy to me that this is an issue and that there was a mistake made with not having an easement in place Way back when. Please let me know what I can do to get this lot ready to build on. On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 12:31 PM Kristi Fehringer <KFehringer@tfid.org> wrote: Hi Dakota, Even though you have a verbal agreement from the neighbor to trench across his backyard to make the sewer service connection, you still need to get an easement from the neighbor for future maintenance access on that service line. Please let me know if you have any further questions. Thank you, Kristi Fehringer Lead Engineering Technician 208.735.7332 kfehringer@tfid.org 203 Main Ave. E. Twin Falls, ID 83301 From: Jon Victor <JVictor@tfid.org> Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2022 12:18 PM To: 'Dakota Ray' <dakotaray3520@gmail.com>; James & Victoria Ray <jvray5@gmail.com>; Lori Williamson <lwilliamson@tfid.org>; Western Septic <westernseptic@gmail.com> 2 Cc: Kristi Fehringer <KFehringer@tfid.org> Subject: RE: 22-1217 365 Elm St Hi Dakota, Have you spoken with city Engineering about this proposal yet? I am copying Kristi in Engineering for her to respond if this is allowed or not. Respectfully, Jon Victor Building & Mechanical Plans Examiner 208-735-7291 jvictor@tfid.org nd City Hall (2 floor) 203 Main Ave. E. Twin Falls, ID 83301 From: Dakota Ray <dakotaray3520@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2022 9:42 AM To: James & Victoria Ray <jvray5@gmail.com>; Jon Victor <JVictor@tfid.org>; Lori Williamson <lwilliamson@tfid.org>; Western Septic <westernseptic@gmail.com> Subject: Re: 22-1217 365 Elm St \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] Hi Jon, 3 The latest on this Elm Street project is that the homeowner to the west will allow us to trench and make a new connection to the city sewer in his backyard so my question to you if that is allowed? This seems like my last option in getting services to this lot since the homeowner will not allow us to dig up his front yard. Let me know. Thank you On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 2:49 PM Western Septic <westernseptic@gmail.com> wrote: Dakota, I talked to your dad this morning and he was going to talk to the city. We need to make sure the city isn't going to make us abandon that existing tap somehow. Kendall Unruh WEB, Inc. dba Western Septic & Excavation 4179 N 1000 E | Buhl, ID 83316 Phone: 208.735.5346 www.westernseptic.com Please note: I no longer accept business calls to my personal mobile number. I can be reached by calling the company phone number at (208) 735-5346, or my direct extension at (208) 969-9878. Please update your records to reflect this change. Thank you. On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 8:04 AM Dakota Ray <dakotaray3520@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Kendall, Here’s an update on this project. I have made contact with the neighbor to the west and they are not going to allow us to dig a pit in their front yard. He said that he would be OK with us trenching in his backyard. My question for you is if it is possible to tap into the city sewer at a different location? We know the sewer runs north and south so there would be access to it from his backyard. If that is possible then I would need to get an easement drawn up. Let me know what you think. 4 Thanks Dakota On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 4:06 PM Jon Victor <JVictor@tfid.org> wrote: Hi Kendall, Thank you for the update. Sounds like an easement will need to be secured before a new line is ran. Once the easement has been secured and recorded with Twin Falls county, we can release the building permit. Respectfully, Jon Victor Building & Mechanical Plans Examiner 208-735-7291 j victor@tfid.org nd City Hall (2 floor) 203 Main Ave. E. Twin Falls, ID 83301 From: Western Septic <westernseptic@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2022 3:19 PM To: Dakota Ray <dakotaray3520@gmail.com> Cc: James & Victoria Ray <jvray5@gmail.com>; Kristi D. Fehringer <KFehringer@tfid.org>; Jon Victor <JVictor@tfid.org> Subject: Re: 22-1217 365 Elm St 5 \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] Dakota, we were out to this property today and found an existing sewer connection. We also found a water meter on the property. The sewer is around 3' deep, then offsets deeper as it goes under the block wall along the west side of the property. We ran a camera to trace it and find out the condition of the sewer. It is running on a fairly steep angle to the north-northwest, then turns and runs west along the north side of the neighbor's house. The tap is just next to the front door of that house, under the curb border of the flower bed. The sewer is orangeburg and is in very poor condition. It will need to be replaced in some fashion. If we could get permission from the neighbor to excavate a pit in their front yard we could do a pipe burst and pull a new HDPE line in. Otherwise, our only option will be to trench across that property. I'm not sure what the next steps are to keep this moving forward. I suppose some sort of contact is going to have to be made with that neighbor. I'm going to have to pass the torch back to you until the necessary permissions are in place to proceed. Kendall Unruh WEB, Inc. dba Western Septic & Excavation 4179 N 1000 E | Buhl, ID 83316 Phone: 208.735.5346 www.westernseptic.com Please note: I no longer accept business calls to my personal mobile number. I can be reached by calling the company phone number at (208) 735-5346, or my direct extension at (208) 969-9878. Please update your records to reflect this change. Thank you. On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 7:59 AM Dakota Ray <dakotaray3520@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Kendall, I wanted to see what the plan is for this sewer connection? Please let me know. On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 7:43 AM Jon Victor <JVictor@tfid.org> wrote: Hi Dakota, The closest sewer line for this property is located on the property to the west in Elm Circle and runs under that house. I spoke with Kristi last night and if the plan is to install a new sewer line, you will need to secure an easement from that property owner. If the current sewer tap for the home that was previously there is still viable and you can tie right into that, you won’t need the easement, but we will need that information before we an issue the permit. Please let us know how you plan on connecting sewer for the new house. 6 Respectfully, Jon Victor City of Twin Falls Building & Mechanical - Plans Examiner 203 Main Ave. E. Twin Falls, ID 83301 208-735-7291 From: Dakota Ray <dakotaray3520@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 7:35 AM To: James & Victoria Ray <jvray5@gmail.com>; Jon Victor <JVictor@tfid.org>; Western Septic <westernseptic@gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: 22-1217 365 Elm St \[EXTERNAL SENDER\] Hi John, James asked me to reach out to you to see what the deal is with the sewer tap at 365 Elm St. N. I currently have been in contact with Western Septic who plans on stubbing the water and sewer to the lot. Let me know what is required for this project and if I can pay for the building permit and get started excavation. Thanks ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: James & Victoria Ray <jvray5@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 6:41 AM Subject: Fwd: 22-1217 365 Elm St To: Dakota Ray <dakotaray3520@gmail.com> 7 Hi Dakota. Jon Victor left me a voicemail yesterday about something to do with the sewer tap at this lot for Horner on Elm. He said that until it is figured out they might not issue the building permit after all even though they sent this yesterday saying it was ready to pick up. Can you call Jon Victor and see exactly what we need to do?. Thanks, James ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Lori Williamson <lwilliamson@tfid.org> Date: Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 3:18 PM Subject: 22-1217 365 Elm St To: jvray5@gmail.com <jvray5@gmail.com> Good afternoon, Permit is ready to pick up, see attached for cost. Thank you Lori Williamson City of Twin Falls Administrative Assistant Engineering Department 208-735-7248 8