Engineering
Access Management Document-Proposed Version 1.2
Right-Of-Way Management
Civil Engineering Standards
In 2001, the City of St. Joseph adopted the Kansas Chapter of the American Public Works Association's "Standard Specifications and Design Criteria" as its design standard for the Department of Public Works & Transportation. This action was taken to provide a more widely recognized engineering standard to guide the design of infrastructure within the City. The standard covers items from roadway design, pavement design, storm water, sanitary sewer, erosion control, etc...
- Erosion
Control-Land Disturbance Policy
A soil erosion control plan shall accompany all applications for land
disturbance permits. The purpose of the plan is to clearly establish
what measures will be taken to prevent erosion and off site sedimentation
during and after development.
- Stormwater
Management
Stormwater
Management is important in St. Joseph because its intended goal to
retain or detain stormwater discharges after development at no greater
rate than it was discharged before development. Fundamentally, it
is a pre-post policy. Properly designed facilities are designed to
remove the potential of downstream flooding resultant from new development.
Stormwater policies are required of cities or urban concentrations
with populations of 50,000 or greater. Engineered facility design
may result in detention facilities (structures that hold water for
storage and release it at a given rate) or retention facilities (structures
that store water and only discharge when certain volumes are exceeded).
Some designs can result in above ground structures, underground, pipe
storage, etc.
- Survey Control Requirements
More accurate horizontal and vertical control has been established for the City of St. Joseph via a contract with Midland Survey, Inc. By locating existing control in the field and applying new technology available to make more accurate the vertical and horizontal grids, sufficient control now exists throughout the corporate limits to reference on all projects submitted to St. Joseph for new plats, and municipally funded projects. Because this information is utilized in a geographic information system, it is very important that all information submitted be tied to these points and submitted with the appropriate references. Plans and plats that do not will be rejected as incomplete. Information concerning the physical location and coordinates of the points can be found by clicking on the station names below, along with all surveying references.