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September23,2009 Hatem Qamhieh 7251 Clearwater Drive, Centerville, MN 55038 Honorable Mayor and City Council City of Centerville 1880 Main Street Centerville, MN 55038 Dear Mayor and coundl: I appreciate your time to let me present to you what is going on Clearwater Drive in Centerville since the construction started on 2009 5treet and Utility Improvement Project #000616-07158-0. On July 15, 2009, I contacted Dallas larson by phone to let him know what is going on and what Forest lake Construction, Inc. is doing on Clearwater Drive (Please see the email I sent to Dallas larson on Friday, July 17, 2009). On Friday, July 31, 2009, Oty Engineer Mark 5tatz called me back after several attempts to connect with each other. I discussed with him the situation on Clearwater Drive and informed him that Forest lake Construction, Inc. using the Cul-De-Sac as full staging area for their construction resulted in total damage for the road surface. Mark mentioned to me that he had visited the Clearwater Drive two weeks before our conversation and he is going to send a letter to every body on the cul-de-sac that next year they will do Fog and Seal for the road. I told him that the damage is ten times worse since your observation two weeks ago and I recommended for him to do mill and over lay for the road. Mark responded that it will be too expensive for the contractor to do that. Forest lake Construction, Inc. staged the project on the cul-de-sac with poor coordination from the beginning of the project. They excavated the middle of the cul-de-sag and the hydrant location eight times. Now we are at the end of September and the damage on Clearwater Drive is above and beyond since my conversation with Mark on July 31. The Forest lake Construction, Inc. kept using the cul-de-sac as staging area for their project from driving their heavy equipments and parking th~m on the road such as bulldozers, scrapers, compactors, hauling trucks, water trucks which all have 'very high axel load. They used the road to store their aggregates, such as sand, class 5 aggregate, top soils and sand resulting in scraping the surface of the pavement when they try to use the material for the rest of the project. Also they stored the stonm sewer pipes on the cul-de-sac. I addressed only the basic things related to the problem. I would appredate knowing any planed action to store the road to its original condition. Please feel free to contact me at my home, telephone # 651-653-6643, if you have any questions regarding this letter. 5~~~. _ ~~hieh, P.E.