A maintenance technician with a tablet stands on the mown embankment of a stormwater pond behind a row of brick townhouses, beside reeds and a concrete outlet.

For firms with homeowners’ association clients

The board inherited a pond. You keep it working.

When the developer leaves, the association takes over the stormwater pond, the swales behind the gardens and the inlets on the streets, along with the agreement that comes with them. Manteverde is built for the firm the board hires to look after those structures, and to explain them to volunteers in plain words.

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What associations ask of you

Client record · sample

Willow Bend Community Association
Board meets Thursday
Structures
1 wet pond, 2 swales, 9 street inlets
Agreement
Handed over by the developer with the community
Contact
Grace Lindqvist, community manager
Board
Volunteers, meeting monthly
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What associations judge you on

Four things a homeowners’ association asks of the firm that maintains its pond.

  1. Volunteers have to understand it

    Board members are neighbours, not engineers. A forebay, a riser and a spillway mean nothing until someone shows them on a picture of their own pond.

    On the recordEach part of the pond named, pinned and photographed on the site map.

  2. Residents see the pond every day

    A slumping bank or a blocked outlet is noticed from a back garden long before the next inspection, and the community manager forwards the email to you.

    On the recordFindings tied to the part of the pond they were found on, with photos and what was done.

  3. Budgets are voted once a year

    Sediment removal and bank repairs are big lines that need the board’s vote. They ask for the evidence, and for how long the problem has been building.

    On the recordThe forebay’s readings over the years, drawn against the line you set.

  4. Boards change

    New members arrive every year and ask what the last board agreed. The record needs to outlast them all.

    On the recordEvery inspection, proposal and invoice kept with the community, not with one person’s inbox.

The board’s record

One pond, inspected part by part, explained on one page.

The autumn inspection of Willow Bend’s north pond, walked the way your inspector walks it: inlet and forebay, the embankment, the outlet and its trash rack, the spillway, the swale behind the gardens. Then a one-page summary the board can read on Thursday.

Pond record · sample

Willow Bend · north pond
InspectingReady for the board
  1. 1Inlet and forebaySediment building up in the forebayAttention needed
  2. 2EmbankmentMown and stable; no slumping seenRoutine
  3. 3Outlet riser and trash rackLeaves and branches on the rack, clearedAttention needed
  4. 4Emergency spillwayClearRoutine
  5. 5Swale behind the gardensStanding water at the low endAttention needed

Board summary · one page, plain words

  1. What we inspected
  2. What we found
  3. What we did on the day
  4. What we recommend next
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A gloved hand pulls leaves and twigs off the steel trash rack of a concrete pond outlet at the waterline, with reeds behind.

What Manteverde is built to do

For the communities you look after.

  • Draw the community’s pond, swales and inlets on its site map, each part named
  • Inspect the pond as a structure: embankment, inlets, forebay, outlet, spillway
  • Keep readings like forebay sediment against the target you set, year after year
  • Write a plain-words summary for the board alongside the full inspection report
  • Propose the work the board needs to vote on, and invoice it once it’s done

Manteverde looks after the pond as a stormwater structure. Water quality treatment, aeration and fountains are not part of it.

Where the work sits in a community

From the street to the pond.

Rain runs off roofs and streets, through inlets and swales, and gathers in the pond. Each stop is a structure with its own line in the record.

  1. Inlets on the streets
  2. Swales behind the back gardens
  3. The rain garden by the clubhouse
  4. The pond’s inlet and forebay
  5. The outlet riser and spillway
  6. The outfall to the creek

Keep reading

Other clients, and the pages behind the pond’s record.

Inspections record what is observed on the day. Manteverde does not warranty or certify membrane integrity, structural condition or safe entry, and never files anything with a city or agency: reports are formatted for your client’s own submission.

Founding access

Give the board a pond record they can read.

Founding access is open to firms that maintain stormwater ponds, swales and inlets for homeowners’ associations. Help shape the pond record and the board summary before launch.

Launching with a 14-day free trial. No card needed.

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