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42103 Phone - (270) 843-2247
Fax - (270) 843-9323 750 West 15th Street Hopkinsville, KY 42240 Phone - (270) 885-9893 Fax - (270) 885-9869 |
WKU Creason Road Parking Lot: |
| In the
spring of 2002, plans were begun for the renovation and
expansion of an existing parking lot at the intersection
of US 68-80 and University Drive. This area has
regularly flooded to the point of being impassable and
unusable many times per year for over fifty years. With
the need to expand parking in this area to over 700
spaces,
DDS ENGINEERING,
PLLC
was hired to design a site layout and storm water plan
that would solve the flooding problems while protecting
the cave system immediately beneath the parking lot. We
performed field reconnaissance, topographic surveys and
office calculations to support our further preparation
of site design, grading and drainage plans and landscape
plans for the improved parking lot and shuttle bus stop. The storm water management plan called for the use of an extremely large filtration system, which collects all runoff from the site, filters it by mechanically, then drains the filtered water into the underlying confluence of three cave systems. The direct discharge of storm water into a cave system mapped by the microgravity technique is the first attempt of its type to be utilized in this manner. Civil Engineering Magazine profiled this project in its June 2003 issue because of the massive storm water handling capacity and superior filtration dynamics of the system designed by the engineers at DDS ENGINEERING, PLLC. Vortechnics, Inc. of Scarborough, Maine, who manufactured the four Vortechs System units utilized in the design of this project has also profiled this project in their in-house magazine because the system is the second largest custom system they have produced. The system manages runoff of 133 cfs, the equivalent of a one year storm event over the entire 630 acre watershed. |
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