Due to recent severe weather, there will be an extra Clean Green event held next Saturday, October 9th from 9 am – 3 pm at the Gate 5 overflow area.

Due to recent severe weather, there will be an extra Clean Green event held next Saturday, October 9th from 9 am – 3 pm at the Gate 5 overflow area.
The purpose of Sudden Valley’s Clean Green program is to provide Sudden Valley residents with a local area to dispose of compostable vegetation. The Clean Green site is located at the Sudden Valley Gate 5 Overflow Parking Area, across from Gate 5 on Lake Louise Road. Starting Saturday, May 1, 2021 this year’s hours are 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
CLICK HERE to view the 2021 Clean Green Calendar
Clean Green program is dedicated to compostable vegetation. This year the program will accept “clean” metals for free.
Clean metal does not have oils, gases, or other harmful contaminates associated with it such as TVs or refrigerators.
The SVCA Maintenance Department will be conducting 2021 Firewise from April 19th to May 10th. This is a 4-week program dedicated to cleaning up from winter storms and reducing the fuel for wildfires near structures.
If you have items that are too small for chipping, they can be dropped off at the Clean Green location on the scheduled disposal days from May-September. Clean Green information will be sent out & posted as we get closer to May.
PLEASE refrain from completing this form UNTIL your branches are out and ready for pickup:
LEAD MAINTENANCE POSITION
Sudden Valley Community Association is a 1,500-acre Homeowners Association situated in a forest setting with 3,000 homes and more than 40 miles of hard surfaced roads. Our Maintenance department is seeking to fill a full-time Maintenance Lead position. The position will support the department manager and lead our HOA’s maintenance team in maintaining buildings, grounds and road infrastructure. This Lead position also assumes the Maintenance Manager’s duties when the incumbent is on special assignments or off site.
The successful candidate will have a solid background in installation/repair skills for carpentry, dry wall, painting, electrical, plumbing and in the operation of equipment such as a backhoe, frontend loader and 1-ton dump trucks. The work environment ranges from indoor building maintenance to clearing fallen trees and plowing snow during storms. Overtime is required when needed in the support our community during weather events and varied job tasks.
Our HOA provides a health care package, paid vacation, paid sick leave and paid certified Traffic Control training. The Maintenance staff are progressive thinking, team orientated and dedicated to the Sudden Valley community.
Basic Qualifications:
Four years maintenance Lead responsibility
Washington State Driver’s license
High School Diploma or GED
Pass pre-employment drug screening
Computer literate
Working knowledge of WAC 296-800-100
Trade School Diploma is a plus
CDL is a plus
Please contact asm@suddenvalley.com with your resume and coverletter explaining why you’d be a great fit for this position. SVCA is an equal opportunity employer.
On Monday, May 11th, Maintenance started the capital-funded 2020 Vegetation Control project. This year, they started at the intersection of Sudden Valley Drive and Berry Wood Court and will work towards the intersection of Sudden Valley Drive and Honeycomb Lane. This section of road is a heavy canopy of tree limbs overhanging the storm water ditches and road surface, so they expect to have a lot of wood chips once the limbs have been cleaned up. These limbs will be run through the large mobile woodchipper and the chips blown into a special dump truck on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
The Maintenance team is offering to deliver a free truck load of wood chips to residents who want to register for them. As the truck is filled with wood chips, deliveries will be made in the sequence that the requests are received. The offer is limited to a full truckload of chips, about 4-5 cubic yards. Partial loads of chips are not feasible for delivery. There is the option of neighbors getting together and sharing a single truck load of chips from a central location.
To register, send an e-mail to chips@suddenvalley.com with the following information:
A hard copy of your e-mail will be given to the Team’s Lead so that they have the specific information to make your delivery.
Unfortunately, during the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home period, we will not be able to take phone requests because of limited staffing for phone support.
The Maintenance team will call one or two days ahead of the delivery to let residents know that they are close to having the wood chips delivered.
If you have a question please call Bruce Bishop, SVCA Maintenance Manager at (360) 724-8000.
CVC Maintenance Team
The SVCA Maintenance department is ramping up for the 2020 Sudden Valley Community Fire Wise program! The Fire Wise program has served residents in the past to help clean up winter storm debris, so we are again offering this annual free service to our community in all gates. Residents are encouraged to participate, to work together with your neighbors and to offer help to other in need.
The full month of March is dedicated to accepting requests so that community groups can pitch in together to continue to mitigate wildfire risks. Starting the first week of April, the Maintenance Department will begin picking up the pre-scheduled roadside branch piles. See the schedule at the end of this article.
Gather up all the woody fuels from around your neighborhoods and set them curbside for free chipping by Association staff. This simple act will reduce fuels in your neighborhood and mitigate wildfire risk to our entire community. We encourage neighborhood participation!
Instructions: Stack piles of trimmed branches and woody fuels perpendicular to the street, in a neat pile, no more than 5 feet high by 10 feet wide, with largest diameter ends toward the road. Do not randomly toss branches or make tangled stacks; it creates more work for the chipping crew and slows down the process. Larger piles may not be picked up.
Once your materials are set in place, chipping service requests can be submitted using one of three methods:
1. Preferred method – send an e-mail to “branches@suddenvalley.com” requesting branch pickup / chipping / chip delivery. The e-mail must include the property owner’s name, email address, property address, and a contact phone number.
2. In person at the Administration Office – fill out a written request form which includes the property owner’s name, email address, property address and a contact phone number. A form is at the end of this article or you can Download Form (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PtA1yHbobTir48sB_iGr20ejjm9RlHZ1) from Sudden Valley Website, call the Administration Office at (360) 734-6430. Your request will be placed on a list. Please do not call the Maintenance shop.
Please note that we will only be able to provide this service to those who have submitted requests prior to March 27th. The requests will be used to plan and schedule the SVCA Maintenance staff’s curbside chipping starting April 1st so that we can be completed by Friday, April 24th. Maintenance will start work at Gate 13 and finish in Gate 5 over these four weeks. A map is available at https://suddenvalley.com/wp-content/uploads/Fire-Wise-Map.pdf showing the approximate pick up schedule.
Service Criteria:
• Branch pile must be stacked next to the firm surface of the road with the branches
• Perpendicular to the street
• The crew cannot work across ditches or access private property
• Branch diameter: Tree limbs from 1⁄2 inch up to seven (7) inches in diameter
• Branch length: Minimum of 2-foot long. Maximum: Unlimited
• Maximum branch pile size/lot: 10-foot-long by 10-foot-wide by 5 feet high
• WOOD CHIPS: Please mark the location where wood chips are to be left.
• Requests must be submitted no later than March 27, 2020
What we cannot chip:
• Yard waste, twigs, ferns leaves, brush, bramble berry vines, etc. These items will clog the chipper.
• Manufactured lumber (2 x 4s, plywood, etc.)
Free Wood Chip Delivery:
By popular request, SVCA staff will deliver the chipped wood to a resident’s home as it becomes available during the month of April. We will deliver one (1) 5-yard truck load on a first-requested basis, while supplies last. This delivery service is included on the Fire Wise service request form.
We will keep information flowing using email blasts (if you haven’t signed up yet, please do so at suddenvalley.com), social media announcements, and the Sudden Valley Community Association website. We need word-of-mouth, grassroots discussions to spread across our beautiful valley to make it healthier, more beautiful and safer for each resident!
Sudden Valley Community Association and Fire Wise are committed to partnering in safety. This is evident in the SVCA responses to Fire Wise requests for help in the past. Spring is coming, so roll up your sleeves and let’s work together!
SCHEDULE
2020 Firewise Pickup Schedule
Firewise Request Form: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PtA1yHbobTir48sB_iGr20ejjm9RlHZ1
Firewise Map: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1I0IX2J6USNKdKn2xvSZwBA5P1Kvz4lW6
POTELCO, Inc. is still on schedule to make final repairs to the asphalt road and parking surfaces that were disturbed during the 2019 PSE project in Gate 2. Work will be done by AA Asphalt on Marigold Drive, Ridgefield Condos, Ranch House Condos, Center Condos, and Orchid Court will start on November 4th, 2019 and continue that week until all of the locations are completed.
October 15th, 2019:
Marigold Drive [8:00 a.m.] – Add topsoil and straw to exposed dirt areas.
Orchid Court – Add topsoil and straw to exposed dirt areas.
Ranch House Condos [10:00 a.m.] – Check/top-off cold patch locations.
Morning Beach Drive: Add topsoil in area of the underground vault.
Estimated start time for inspection and topping-off existing road cold patch – 12:00 p.m. Work will occur in sequence listed.
West lane of Marigold by Center Condos: Top-off cold patch in settling areas. Compact as needed.
Valley View Court to Orchid Court (Ridge Field Condos): Inspect and top-off cold patch areas.
October 16th, 2019:
Morning Beach Drive: Starting about 9:00 a.m., re-work river rock by vault for added erosion control.
Questions or concerns about the above schedule/work may be directed to JTH, Jason Handy, at (360) 421-7091.
In response to several requests for one more Clean Green day, Maintenance will staff a Saturday Clean Green activity on October 12, 2019. The location of the event will be changed to an area across from the entrance to Gate 5.
Directions (see map above for references)
As with the summer Clean Green program there are guidelines to be followed:
HOURS: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Vegetation will be accepted for a minimal fee. Check or cash in the exact amount please. Staff will NOT be able to make change.
Mixing of vegetation listed below cannot be accepted.
Maintenance is often asked what size trees and tree limbs can be disposed of during Clean Green. The following is a general guide.
The Clean Green program is dedicated to compostable vegetation. Items that CANNOT be accepted include, metals, lumber, construction materials, chemicals and paints, batteries, electronics, household trash, plastic, glass, furniture, etc.
Drainage improvements will be completed along Fairway Lane close to the intersection of Caddie Lane starting the week of September 16th. Work will take approximately 1 week to complete, and is weather-dependent. Access will be maintained for local residents with traffic control. Minor delays should be expected as pipe crossings are completed across the street.