RV Resort Getting Ready to Pour Concrete, Baffling Activity at Detention Pond

Construction activity at the Laurel Springs RV Resort near Lakewood Cove kicked into overdrive today as workers laid forms to prepare for concrete and more pipes went into the ground. Also, the detention pond seemed to change shape in ways that could reduce its capacity.

Getting Ready for Concrete

The shot below shows what will become the main entrance/exit opposite Mystic Glen Loop in Lakewood Cove.

*Entrance/Exit to RV Resort. Concrete building pad for recreation center. The two rectangular areas in front of the three cargo containers will be the first RV pads. Blue pipes will carry fresh water*.

*Plans that correspond to the photo above.*

*Concrete forms also extend south toward the detention pond*, *out of sight at bottom of frame.*

Baffling Work at Detention Pond

The work at the detention pond today was hard to explain. For the last few days, workers have pulled dirt and tree debris up onto the southwestern wall of the detention pond. Here’s how it looked yesterday around noon.

*SW wall of RV Resort detention pond photographed on 2/17/2022.*

Trucks have moved a portion of it to the western wall.

*Looking east. Excavator loading debris onto truck which will back it around to the western wall (out of frame to the lower left). This and all photos below taken 2/18/22.*

*Truck transplanting debris on western wall.*

The wide shot below shows where they have been piling it on the western wall and puts the activity in context.

*Looking South toward Edgewater Park in background.*

*But it wasn’t all going to the western wall. Bulldozers spread some into the Laurel Springs RV Resort detention pond.*

*The area where contractors laid pipe between the pond (left) and ponding water (right).*

*Meanwhile, another bulldozer seemed to push dirt from the outside of the pond’s southern wall to the inside.*

*It appeared as though contractors were attempting to shift the entire wall to the north. If accurate, that could reduce the pond’s already constrained capacity.*

Did the developer’s surveyors make a mistake initially? We shall know soon enough if the County conducts its own survey.

*If that tree debris gets plowed into the pond wall, it could weaken the structural integrity of the pond as the woody material decays.*

Reducing Pond Capacity?

I’m especially concerned about the potential loss of capacity in the detention pond. It already had only half the current capacity required to meet current City of Houston standards.

The further along construction gets, the harder it is to undo mistakes if they happen. So we need to monitor this closely.

Posted by Bob Rehak on 2/18/22

1634 Days since Hurricane Harvey

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Getting Ready for Concrete

Baffling Work at Detention Pond

Reducing Pond Capacity?

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