COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS

The High Point Elementary School is immediately adjacent to the complex with parent vehicular traffic routes defined through the west parking lot of the property. Most of the construction was scheduled during the summer months to avoid interaction with the students and parents. However, the project schedule was required to extend past the start of school and therefore specific traffic control and sequencing was implemented that avoided conflict with the students, parents, and teachers.

The project site is adjacent to existing wetlands on the north side and stormwater detention basins on the east side of the complex. Protection of these facilities was critical throughout the project and specifically as it related to the mass grading operation and verification of drainage throughout the site. Drainage outfalls were located at the north end of the sports complex leading into the wetland and also at the east end of the complex leading to a stormwater basin. The drainage improvements planned for the complex were revised to eliminate any work adjacent to the wetland and included an improved outfall to the stormwater basin.