Dallas Water Utilities Piedmont Pipelines Map

Dallas Water Utilities Piedmont Pipelines Map

A magnificent map by Durant Greenwood showing:

• Friends of Piedmont (FoP) trails
• The Loop Dallas’s (Loop) White Rock Bluffs trail
• Dallas Water Utilities (DWU) planned water main (close to the DART tracks) and other water and sewer line routes
• Friends of Piedmont’s proposed alternate route for water main

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Center point of area in Google Maps to help with orientation – Switch to Satellite layer to see natural features as well.

Map color guide:

• orange – DWU in process
• yellow – DWU in planning
  • Lacywood, the horizontal yellow line and short vertical above it, are pipelines already underway
  • The yellow line and crossbars below it seem to be old and not in use
• dark blue – completed DWU sewer line
  • Located between the base of Lacywood Overlook and Renda Meadow
• pale orange – FoP trails
• light blue – The Loop’s White Rock Bluffs Trail
• sage – route preferred by Friends of Piedmont
• blue Xs – old trees, geographic notes, and historic structures

FoP’s goals with the alternative route are:

1. Save DWU’s money and effort in removing large trees and abandoned transmission tower bases to put in the water main.
2. Preserve the Loop’s investment in the most excellent White Rock Bluffs trail by shifting the water main tunnel underneath the DART tracks so that the DWU line goes across the trail and not along it.
3. Prevent the DART tracks from becoming inundated with standing water during heavy rain.

The ridge’s limestone absorbs very little rain, so the culvert beneath the DART tracks carries a LOT of water off the ridge during storms. See the LiDAR below and examine the depth of the gully that feeds it, located along the words Meadow Loop.

The farther the DWU line is from the DART tracks, the more space for water to disperse and absorb. The congregation of large trees roughly matches the dispersal area.

4. Save the majestic pecans and cottonwoods FoP has grown to love, as well as historic structures such as a series of transmission tower bases.

Current proposed DWU pipeline and water main work in all of Dallas.

LiDAR of Piedmont North

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is an active remote sensing technology that uses pulsed lasers to measure distances and create precise, 3D representations of physical environments.

Notes:

• Geography:
  • The main gully that comes off east Scyene Overlook and goes along the west side of the Renda Meadow Loop. That’s the gully we cross by the huge cottonwood to get to Scyene Overlook.
  • Look how it goes under the DART tracks and heads southwest. Super helpful to know about that bend. Many of the oldest/largest trees are found in this water-dispersal/alluvial area. 
  • Also check out that huge gully coming off the west side of Scyene Overlook. Seems to end in the Beeman black walnut grove at the DART service road and the DART tracks.

• Roads and Trails:
  • The thick horizontal line at top is Scyene.
  • The vague vertical line west of Scyene Overlook and north of Scyene is Glover Pass Rd., where the Colonial Baptist Church is located. South of Scyene, it becomes the DART service road that leads to the DART crossing to nowhere.
  • The green line marks the DART tracks. Kleberg Trail refers to a rails-to-trails project much further south.
  • The pale white lines are trails.

• DWU Pipelines:
  • yellow – DWU in process
    • Lacywood, the horizontal yellow line and short vertical above it, are water lines already underway)
    • The yellow line and crossbars below it seem to be old and not in use
  • dashed yellow – route preferred by FoP
  • dark blue – completed DWU sewer line
    • Located at the base of Lacywood Overlook, between it and Renda Meadow

See LiDAR of full ridge here.