Mounds of dirt are stacked high next to the West End Roofing building off Ella between 12th St. and Grovewood, which the developers of the Broadstone Heights Waterworks midrise a mile and a half away are using as a dumping ground for earthen debris involved in their project. A TCEQ notice posted by the dirt piles states that a plan was in place to prevent too much stomwater from running off the property between January 9 and June 1.

The new 8-story Broadstone building is planned on a portion of the original Heights Waterworks at the northwest corner 20th and Nicholson streets that Alliance bought from the city a few years ago. It’ll go up, catty-corner to the development Braun Enterprises has planned on the neighboring soon-to-be reworked waterworks parcel, as indicated in the map below:

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But there’s also a story behind the soiled property in Timbergrove: 6 years after buying it, an entity connected to InTown Homes filed plans to build a neighborhood on it — which the sign fronting 20th now identifies as Ella Grovewood. But since then, no new construction has risen on the 4-and-a-half-acre site.

• Previously on Swamplot: Braun Heights Waterworks Reservoir Redo To Stick a Glass Box In the Side, Keep Some Grass on the Roof; Heights Waterworks Work Could be Paired with Chase Bank Sale Chaser; City-Wide Drainage SWAT Team Possibly Bankrolled By Heights Waterworks Sale; Apartment Developer Alliance Ready To Buy Landmarked Heights Waterworks Land

Photos: Dakota Christoffel. Site plan: Braun Enterprises