The final step for the Civil Review to be complete is to get our drainage BMP’s approved.  BMP’s stand for “Best Management Practices”.  Basically, our drainage design on our property requires us to maintain the drainage treatment types that we install.  We have two different ways that we’re dealing with drainage on our property – drywells and sheet flow.  The driveway drains to a drywell, the roof drains to a drywell and the back patio sheet flows to the back yard.  The County requires us as the homeowners to know how to install and maintain these drainage features.  For example – the gravel material in the drywell becomes filled with fines and clogged, we’ll need to have them replaced.  The County wants this recorded and on file so that if we ever sell the property the new owners will also know how to take care of the property.

The County asked me to prepare “Exhibit A” with certain criteria – a 1” border on legal sized paper and only pertinent information shown.  I did this, the reviewer approved and signed off on it and then he sent me the rest of the information that need to be recorded in a covenant.

BMP Covenant Sheet 3 “Exhibit A”

To have the covenant accepted by the county it needed to be notarized.  Luckily my uncle is a notary and lives just a couple miles from us. We brought over yummy dessert from Whole Foods on Monday and signed the papers with him.

BMP Covenant Sheet 1

BMP Covenant Sheet 2

BMP Covenant Sheet 4

BMP Covenant Sheet 5

BMP Covenant Sheet 6

BMP Covenant Sheet 7

Joel submitted them to Seattle to the King County’s admin office and we had our recording number.  We gave the recording number to the County’s Civil reviewer and he signed off on our review as being approved.  Easy peasy!