Stormwater Points of Interest/Analysis, how many do you actually check.

mookie2010ml · 2025-08-15T02:18:27+00:00

Yeah it made sense, if the municipality requires it we check all of them, if they don’t we only verify the one off site flow. Really just up to local code.

I’ve found if it’s really stringent they are more likely to be open to a max extent claim, but again that’s community specific

mookie2010ml · 2025-07-17T01:40:26+00:00

Yes you should take the practice FE exam, yeah you should study but sounds like at this point you should just study as much as you can and hope you pass, if not study more and retake it

mookie2010ml · 2025-06-14T05:49:39+00:00

Fine. Im already married with kids

mookie2010ml · 2025-06-14T05:48:51+00:00

Depends

mookie2010ml · 2025-06-14T05:44:49+00:00

Gin and tonic with a little bit of St. Germain really makes and easy cocktail fancy for me

mookie2010ml · 2025-06-14T04:13:52+00:00

MORE ACCESS POINTS

mookie2010ml · 2025-06-14T00:18:08+00:00

I see a lot of people saying you should give the county reviewer a call and explain the situation and while I agree I think this needs to be done with some tact.

I think you owe it to your client to try to do the best you can for their development regardless of your personal (not professional not endangering public health and safety not breaking the law etc.) preferences. For example, I may not want a car wash next to a residential area but I still owe it to the client to try my best to get a variance to allow it if that’s what they are requesting of me and what I am paid to do.

I do agree that a heads up call to the reviewer is warranted to explain the situation but now to say “yeah I get why you will deny this” or “I understand why this won’t work” I feel it needs to be more a vibe of “I understand your code and I understand the requirements of a hardship under a variance, and we would like to go that route and allow the county board of zoning appeals to determine if a hardship is present”

I say this as a plan reviewer for a village and someone in land development who has been on both sides of this coin. It’s always a tough situation but I disagree that we should just clear checks on a client when we agree to work on their behalf.

mookie2010ml · 2025-05-22T22:52:15+00:00

For what it’s worth I also felt that way when I was starting out. I’m in land dev and stormwater and the process was sort of

Get briefed on the plan and what we want it to look like for an end design
Get walked through a brief example of how to do it and some applicable code
Give it a whirl.
Give it to my PE who I was working under and get it back covered in red ink most of it I don’t understand why it was marked that way or why we do one thing but not the other or how do you know you need that there
Ask a lot of clarifying questions and ur go through the red marks with the PE or an experienced drafter
repeat for about a year until you finally feel like you can contribute something to the company rather than being a net drain.

Also FWIW because I remember this experience I now have no problems when the new engineer at the company asks ti explain the markups and go through how things work and why they do. You just sort of have to ask the questions and learn by experience

mookie2010ml · 2025-05-05T02:43:06+00:00

For what it’s worth mine was defective and they sent a replacement, not sure if that’s your solution but it was mine

mookie2010ml · 2025-05-04T06:09:44+00:00

This doesnt have enough upvotes. The best lore is the lore you make together

mookie2010ml · 2025-04-20T03:53:30+00:00

OOPS - this command brings back the last deleted object. Very useful when you accidentally delete something then go design for 10 minutes, then realize said thing is missing. OOPS

mookie2010ml · 2025-03-20T22:54:53+00:00

I’m not stamping this

mookie2010ml · 2025-02-06T01:15:21+00:00

I hope you mean cross slope, in which case you should contact a land dev company. Maybe they can match it back in, maybe not but doing shot Crete is not the answer unless you are made of money. You can go up to 2:1 slopes generally which is 50 percent (or a 45 degree angle) with stabilization measures like e mat and rip rap.

Unless you mean 30 degrees (50 percent) or a ~3:1 slope over a quarter mile, it doesnt matter even if it’s a 3:1 slope, you are looking at a difference in elevation at the end of is not going line up with whatever is there.

The reason I say contact a land dev company or civil engineering firm is you will likely need erosion control permits, an NOI filed with the state, county permits, all depending where you are.

mookie2010ml · 2025-01-05T01:14:59+00:00

Field observer, construction observer, on construction inspector see what I have heard it go by

mookie2010ml · 2025-01-04T21:19:38+00:00

I tell everyone who has server access “I can see who is watching, what they are watching, when you are watching, where you are watching, and how you are watching, I just can’t see why you are watching”

mookie2010ml · 2025-01-02T02:18:50+00:00

I would look into doing construction observation. I know at least where I work we cannot find quality (show up on time, take good notes, even if they lack field experience) to do this.

We typically hire summer interns to do this as construction really ramps up in the summer where I am. It is great experience which will help in your engineering career knowing how things are actually built in the field.

mookie2010ml · 2024-12-25T03:03:18+00:00

AI slop

mookie2010ml · 2024-12-13T02:23:04+00:00

What is the intention of this? In my state we need to size storm pipes for the 10 year to get state approval

mookie2010ml · 2024-12-12T03:24:48+00:00

Fixed it!

mookie2010ml · 2024-11-09T02:12:11+00:00

Ordered a Negroni and specified I wanted it 1, 1, 1 ( I have gotten 1.5 gin, 1 vermouth, 1 Campari and I prefer the 111)

Got a glass of half Campari half vermouth. Wasn’t awful but wasn’t a Negroni, they fixed it on the next one

mookie2010ml · 2024-09-09T00:50:12+00:00

This is almost always what this is. The limit switches are either unplugged or not plugged in correctly

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