{"id":3035,"date":"2014-05-07T21:24:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2014-05-07T22:28:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T22:28:13","slug":"expert-testimony-on-booker-creek-watershed-and-ephesus-fordham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/expert-testimony-on-booker-creek-watershed-and-ephesus-fordham\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert testimony on Booker Creek Watershed and Ephesus Fordham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Friends of Bolin Creek sought expert help to evaluate the Booker Creek Watershed where the Ephesus Fordham redevelopment proposal is located.\u00a0 Ken Carper, Stantec, Inc issued this report on April 28, 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dear Mayor and Council Members of the Town of Chapel Hill:<\/p>\n<p>I am sending to you again this report, on behalf of Friends of Bolin Creek. See 2 attachments. The location of the Ephesus-Fordham proposal in the Booker Creek watershed requires special attention to minimize risks for flood damages to businesses and homes. Contained in my report, are specific recommendations to mitigate this serious threat.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ourtown2020.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/ef-report-final-carper-041614.pdf\">Ephesus &#8211; Fordham Stormwater Report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ourtown2020.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/carper-littleriverwatershed_handout2.pdf\">Little Creek Watershed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina and a Certified Floodplain Manager with over 35 years of experience working for engineering firms and local governments, including many projects involving assessing flood threats to communities and devising ways to guide development to reduce these threats. I will speak to the main points at the meeting on April 21, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate this opportunity and thank you for considering this information in your deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth A. Carper, PE, CFM<br \/>\nWater Resources Team Lead, Stantec Consulting Services Inc<br \/>\nkenneth.carper@stantec.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of Bolin Creek sought expert help to evaluate the Booker Creek Watershed where the Ephesus Fordham redevelopment proposal is located.\u00a0 Ken Carper, Stantec, Inc issued this report on April 28, 2014. Dear Mayor and Council Members of the Town of Chapel Hill: I am sending to you again this report, on behalf of Friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[193],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephesus-fordham-rezoning","tag-booker-creek-watershed-and-ef"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bolincreek.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}