[StBernard] steve estopinal

[Westley Annis]

Ms. Keller,
 
Thank you so much for passing that information along.  I emailed Mr.
Estopinal immediately.  I can only hope/pray that we are amongst his 20k+
files.
 
I thank you for asking him about this on our behalf and I also thank Mr.
Estopinal for his willingness to do this.
 
With my mom in the hospital again here in AL, and not much else going well,
I'll be honest and tell you that I just about-nah-I did tear up at something
maybe going well.
 
Kindest regards and thanks,
Jim York


 

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	Sometimes things just never go right, and once in awhile the timing
is
	magical. I went into the Parish planning commission today and who
walked in
	right after me but none other than surveyor/engineer Steve
Estopinal! The
	email address I had for him was invalid and I wondered all day how I
was
	going to find him.
	
	Steve said he has over 26,000 digital files of slab elevations/plot
plans,
	etc. , although 5,000 were lost in the flood, including some very
historical
	drawings from the 1800's. 
	
	Steve works for a Baton Rouge architecture/engineering firm, but
said I
	could let everyone know how to reach him.
	
	Email sestopinal at csrsonline.com. He'll need the address of the
property in
	question. I suppose the subdivision name helps, too, if you know it.
He can
	discuss arrangements for his services to research and get the
information to
	you if it is in his files. It can be emailed since its digital.
	
	Good luck and hope you are all one of the 26,000. Keep in mind that
land
	settles and so do slabs, and the benchmark elevation has changed
over the
	years. What this means is that if you had a new survey done today,
the slab
	elevation will be lower than when the house was built and first
surveyed.
	Maybe it's an inch, maybe it's six inches difference. No way to tell
unless
	it was re-surveyed. But for the most part, you'll have an excellent
idea of
	where your slab is (was) relative to the Base Flood Elevations that
FEMA
	talks about. I wonder how much the weight of 12 feet of water cause
us to
	settle. That's like having 750 pounds on every square foot of land!
And it
	sat there awhile, too.
	
	Looking forward to tomorrow's FEMA meeting on Base Flood Elevations
and hope
	it's productive and informative. Can you put FEMA, productive,
informative
	in the same sentence? (I couldn't resist)
	
	Deborah Keller