Lauren Striegl, PE with the City of Madison – Engineering Division has provided the following update for April. If you have any questions, Lauren may be reached at 608-266-4094…

I wanted to send you our monthly update for the Hawks Landing Flood Mitigation project. No large new developments have occurred since our meeting last month. The City continues to work with MSA (our engineering consultant) to develop alternatives to keep stormwater on the golf course. We have presented the golf course with multiple potential solutions over the last month, each taking into account concerns that the course has expressed during prior iterations, and we are hopeful that we might come to a resolution soon. My understanding is that Jeff Haen had a personal matter that occupied much of his time in March, but we have been in communication and I’m hopeful that I’ll be hearing from him soon.

Meanwhile, we also continue to work with MSA to design a retaining wall to keep water in the City’s easement and off private property during overflow events at Pond C. The Board of Public Works has approved plans and specifications for the wall, and I have MSA working through some near-final design issues on it. I have been in touch with the Attorney’s Office to work on drafting a legal agreement between the City and (a HLHA homeowner) to discuss how the wall will work. My hope is that our team will sit down with (the HLHA homeowner)  in the coming weeks to discuss this agreement.