DEPARTMENT: Parks, Facilities, and Fleet Management
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Authorization To Execute Encroachment Agreement With Metropolitan Council For North Creek Greenway Lakeville-Farmington, County Parks Project P00146
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize an encroachment agreement with Metropolitan Council for the encroachment of a public sanitary sewer utilities easement for trail bridge structure construction for County Project (CP) P00146 in Lakeville.
SUMMARY
Dakota County is proceeding with construction of the North Creek Greenway Lakeville-Farmington project (Attachment: Location Map). County Project P00146 is the final design and construction of a 2.2-mile segment of the North Creek Greenway in Lakeville and Farmington, including new and reconstructed multi-use trail and two new trail bridges over North Creek and adjacent tributaries and wetlands.
One of the North Creek Greenway Lakeville-Farmington bridges and the placement of one of the bridge piers is partially in a Met Council sanitary sewer easement. This is something that came up as an unforeseen site condition, which the project team (SRF, the County, Met Council, and the contractor) had to act quickly on in order to keep the bridge contractor on site and on schedule and to avoid incurring substantial costs and delays to the project.
Met Council staff were amenable to our plans for mitigating risk to their infrastructure during construction and provided written notice to proceed with the pier work. Met Council staff were also not concerned with the permanent condition as the permanent encroachment is relatively small, and they were aware of the original intent for a trail bridge structure crossing over the top of the easement and sanitary sewer main at this location.
The formal document (Attachment: Encroachment Agreement) is required to record the permanent encroachment of the pier into the easement. The project does not require relocation or adjustment of any utiliti...
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