Elbert Street Stormwater Improvements

AMEC-BCI was hired by Lake County to improve water quality discharges to the Palatlakaha Chain of Lakes, particularly discharges to Lake Minnehaha. There is existing direct discharge from Elbert Street in a residential area retrofit with french drains and a splash pool upstream of a wetland fringe on Lake Minnehaha.

AMEC-BCI provided the following services:

• Pollutant loading & pollutant reduction calculations
• Resolution of conflicting survey easements required, vacation of existing easements, accommodating existing utilities & saving existing trees
• Coordination with residents for design & location of retrofit system
• Wetland delineation
• French drain design
• Pavement repair design
• Plans preparation
• Permitting through St. Johns River Water Management District
• Erosion & sediment control plan
• Construction inspections
• Cost estimating