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CONTRACT K-1617-137: A CONTRACT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AND SUMMIT LAKES PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, AND THE SUMMIT VILLAS PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION AND SUMMIT LAKES LLC FOR THE MISTY LAKE DAM REPAIR PROJECT AND BUDGET APPROPRIATION FROM THE CAPITAL FUND BALANCE IN THE AMOUNT OF $40,000 FOR THE CITY'S SHARE.
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BACKGROUND: The Summit Lakes Addition and the Summit Villas Addition are located between 24th Avenue SE and 36th Avenue SE on Alameda Street. Currently, the Summit Lakes Addition is platted into ten different sections comprising 542 lots and the Summit Villas Addition is platted into 66 lots. The Summit Lakes Addition also includes a proposed Section 11 that would contain 69 lots.
There are seven lakes within the Additions that function as a storm water drainage system: Misty Lake, Heron Lake, Drake Lake, Hidden Lake, Willow Lake, StarCrest Lake, and Secret Lake. All of these improvements and amenities are currently owned, managed, maintained, and controlled by one or both of the Summit Lakes Property Owners Association and the Summit Villas Property Owners Association.
On March 16, 2011, the Summit Lakes Property Owners Association was notified by the Oklahoma Water Resource Board (OWRB) that the dam associated with Misty Lake was being reclassified as a "high hazard" dam due to the potential downstream impacts on Alameda Street and nearby homes in event of a failure of the dam.
On March 20, 2015, the Oklahoma Water Resource Board (OWRB) issued an emergency order and set an administrative hearing on April 14, 2015 due to the dangerous condition of the dam. Subsequent to the hearing, the OWRB issued a Consent Order on July 8, 2015 requiring the Summit Lakes Property Owners Association to lower the lake level three feet below the emergency spillway and maintain that level until the dam was repaired. The Consent Order also required the Summit Lakes Property Owners Association to prepare and submit engineerin...
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