River Shores

About River Shores
The site is made up of 13 home sites on the banks of the river, above the flood plain, heavenly landscaped with gated entry and a river walk that leads to the beautiful park like setting at the RIVER SHORES.

THE LOCATION

The River Shores Site offers perhaps the only area residential development located directly on the banks of the River and an opportunity to live in the most uniquely beautiful neighborhood in the valley.

The development is built on a very beautiful, extremely unique and environmentally sensitive location. The developer has taken extraordinary steps to protect wildlife, wetlands, and at the same time provide a building site that offers residence a stable, flood free and beautiful neighborhood.

ENGINEERING INVOLVEMENT

Because of the nature of the site, the developer enlisted the services of several engineering groups to work with The Department of Environmental Protection, The Luzerne Conservation District and the Luzerne County Planning Commission. Borton-Lawson Engineering, headquartered in Wilkes-Barre, handled the site planning and permit application processes including erosion and sediment pollution control plans, drainage design, grading procedures as well as utilities and roadways. Borton-Lawson completed the wetland studies, topographic mapping and flood boundary and elevation levels as well as the Phase One Environmental study.

R.T. Environmental Services headquartered in King of Prussia, Pa managed the environmental testing as well as the Phase Two Environmental and Pennsylvania Land Recycling Act (ACT 2) requirements. RT also monitored the site construction processes for compliance to the environmental remediation plan developed in conjunction with the Developer and The Department of Environmental Protection. Our geotech work was provided by Geo-Sciences Engineering centered in Jessup, Pa. Geo-Sciences managed the geotech boring and testing process and established foundation and structural construction guidelines that will ensure foundation stability.

Site engineering and testing over two years included data from 16 soil borings, twenty eight environmental test pit digs and ten geotechnical borings coupled with countless studies, reports and laboratory testing. The documentation developed over the two years of site engineering include a geotechnical review, environmental remedial investigation and clean-up plan, phase one environmental report, phase two environmental report, laboratory results for test pit sampling, laboratory reports for soil boring, geotechnical boring logs, wetland delineation report, post construction storm water management plan as well as an erosion and sediment pollution control plan.

THE ENGINEERING RESULTS

The site is above flood levels.
The one hundred year flood plain has been the universally accepted "safe zone" for building, insurance and county restrictions. As in all aspects of this sites development, we made sure we went above and beyond acceptable standards. All of the living spaces in the development will be located at least a foot and one half above the one hundred year flood plain. In fact for our calculations we used the new FEMA flood plain designations that take in to account the impact of new dikes on river levels. Furthermore all of the homes first floor levels will be ten feet above the flood levels reached during the "Agnes" flood in June of 1972. Each home site will be issued an elevation certificate.

The site has above average foundation bearing capacity
The site was dynamically compacted by Densification, Inc, a firm out of Virginia that has been creating stable building envelopes all over the country for decades. Tested, treated and approved soil conditions is not something you will find in other developments.