Yesterday, Joe Davila of American Landscape Systems and I met with Nick and Jennifer yesterday and discussed the following:

1)       Condition of sleeving on medians between Ponte and the Spring Valley end of the project and how to resolve one sleeve that appears to be blocked: Per Joe, American will contact
their boring company to see if they will attempt to bore through the existing sleeve.  Their boring company will not bore a new sleeve due to extensive utilities in the immediate area.

2)      Tree bubbler zone shown on plans where UDR temporary irrigation and plantings are occurring along right-of-way near Bella: Concluded American to run lateral line from median
to right-of-way and stub up into a valve box for future installation.  No bubbler zone to be installed at this time.

3)      Tree bubbler zone and tree plantings shown on plans on right-of-way opposite grotto: Concluded American to run lateral line from median to right-of-way and stub up into valve
box and complete installation when park construction and timing allows.  American will have to expose the sleeve on the right-of-way; UDR and American will coordinate temporary removal
of wooden wall panel(s) to facilitate the work.  American estimates will take 1 day to complete.

 

4)      I met with Joe on the medians between Ponte and Marsh Ln. regarding apparent insufficient prep; upon testing with a probe, some areas appeared compacted.  American removed irrigation
drip lines and re-tilled the areas in question.  Joe and I agreed to inspect together any future prep work prior to installation of drip lines and/or any landscaping.  A few of the trees
in front of Savoye 1 appeared too high; American lowered them and they now meet with approval.

5)      I discussed with Nick the need to run 1” conduit with sweep elbows and proper wiring from the existing irrigation valves in the Savoye 1 bed where the fountain pump vault is
being installed, under Ponte and to the corner of Savoye 2 so that the irrigation zone(s) for the trees wells on Ponte could be tied into the future Rainmaster controller at Savoye 2.
 Sufficient wire needs to be coiled up inside a valve box on the Savoye 2 side to allow for the run to the future controller.  Currently the tree well zones are being ran by a battery
powered controller.  Now is the time to do this while the corner is disturbed for the fountain construction.  He said he would talk with Roger.

 

Note: Both #2 & 3 need to occur now to allow American to plant the median.  Excavation to sleeve depth will have to occur both on the median and on the right-of-way in order to run the
tree bubbler lateral lines.

 

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