2011, 05-18 Meeting Notes SV Stormwater & Painted Hills Golf Course OwnersDraft Meeting Notes
Painted Hills Golf Course Owners and Staff w/ City of Spokane Valley Stormwater Personnel
Date: 5/18/2011, Location: Painted Hills Golf Shop, Time: 8:OOam
Attendees:
Citv Staff
Art Jenkins, Stormwater Engineer, 720-5018, aienkins@spokanevalley.org
Aaron Clary, Stormwater Technician, 720-5005, aclary@spokanevalley.org
Painted Hills Golf Staff
John and Linda McElhinny, Owners since 2006, 928-4653, paintedhills@gmail.com
Chris, Maintenance Staff, been with course for 17 years
Bob, Maintenance Staff, been with course for 11 years
NOTES:
• The main contributor to the Thorpe road flooding appears to be: 1) overtopping and failing
berms along Chester Ck, south of the City limits. These berms are located on private property in
unincorporated Spokane County. 2) Chester Ck channel south of the City limits and the
Drainage Easement on Harold Orr's property appear to be filling in with sediment, debris, and
trees that are displacing water from the channel.
• All agreed that we are trying to find a solution to the low flows that overtop Thorpe Rd on a
yearly basis and the golf course is willing to work with the City
• The golf course loses revenue when water covers the course during "open season"
• The City is losing the road and dangerous road hazards are present when water covers the road
• All attendees now have a basic understanding of how the flooding problem at Thorpe Rd came
to be (see Thorpe Rd History Map, City of Spokane Valley, May 2011, by A. Clary)
• Golf course staff provided a tour of the course to see the existing terrain and the water
overflows that keep the course from opening
• Maintenance staff agreed that the soils toward the south half of the course are finer, more silty -
loam and the soils toward the north half are more gravelly, which corresponds to the NRCS Soil
Classification for the area.
IDEAS PRESENTED:
• Provide maintenance of the creek channel south of Thorpe Road up to and including where
water is escaping through the berms. This option may take much longer than this season and is
dependent upon multiple state and federal agencies. Other shorter -term alternatives that could
be constructed sooner were therefore considered.
• Re-establish a ditch along the south side of Thorpe Rd and either:
• 1) Connect the two existing 15" culverts with 2 manholes, piping the water back into the
creek below the Thorpe Rd bridge over Chester Creek, install a check valve so water from
the creek would not be able to flow back up the pipe.
• 2) Extend and re -open the two existing 15" culverts under Thorpe Road and daylight into the
Par 3 golf course to the north.
• 3) Build a new culvert on east end of Thorpe Rd near the roadway low point and re -grade
the existing swales to overflow into or around the course. Discharge water by providing
conveyance along the west side of Madison Rd and dispose of the water into a deep bio -
infiltration swale on golf course property and within existing "out of play" area(s).
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Painted Hills Golf Co:arse Amenities Include:
9 Hole Par 36 Golf Course a Chester Creek Par 3
Lighted Driving Range a Practice Putting Green
Practice Chipping Green Chester Creek Grille