Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 11-16-2026
Title:
title
Acceptance of the Drainage Advisory Committee’s recommendation to approve expenditure of 2018 General Obligation Bond funds for the design of drainage improvements in the Oak Crest 4th Addition Subdivision
End
Background:
The case was brought before the Drainage Advisory Committee on April 27, 2026, for design of drainage improvements in the Oak Crest 4th Addition subdivision. The Committee unanimously voted to recommend approval of expenditure of funds.
The applicant’s property was part of a City Sanitary Sewer and Waterline improvements project. At a public meeting in November 2024, the applicant states she was ensured by the City and the contractor that her rear easement yard would be restored to existing conditions. The applicant states the easement was “drastically altered and not restored to its original state”. She states there is now a ditch that runs the entire length of the property that was covered with sod. The sod has since been washed out and street sediment is in her yard. This has left stagnant water in her yard all summer.
Restoring the property to conditions prior to construction is not the original design conditions. The 24” pipe that outlets onto her property was full of silt and silt filled her yard where the ditch was. This was restricting the flow from the 24” pipe. The contractor cleaned out the pipe and graded the swale to drain and restored the functionality of the storm system as it was originally intended.
The property is located in the Oak Crest 4th Addition subdivision. This subdivision was platted in 1971, prior to any City engineering criteria. The pipe that discharges onto the applicant’s property is a 24” pipe that picks up stormwater from E. Richmond St., S. 6th Pl., and S. 6th St and drains through private property to an unnamed tributary to the west branch of Broken Arrow Creek. The drainage area is approximately 7 acres. The drainage flows through a 15’ utili...
Click here for full text