Sulfate suit expands to include Rancho El Dorado, Acacia Crossings

A claim alleging the builders and developers behind much of the vision of Maricopa used improper concrete is growing as Phoenix attorney John Chaix seeks to add homeowners in Rancho El Dorado and Acacia Crossings. “We have inspected numerous residences with a geotechnical engineer who has identified extremely high levels of sulfates, causing damage to concrete foundations, driveways, walkways, decomposed granite and other hardscape,” Chaix said. The suit originally started in Maricopa Meadows and Alterra when concerned HOA board members started noticing abnormal damage to buildings, walls and other structures and brought in a private firm for advise. “The situation was brought to our attention about a year and a half ago so we hired a geotechnical engineer to look at the makeup of the soil,” said Meadows HOA president Christian Price in a June interview. When those results came back, according to Price, the damage compared to that seen in communities 30 years old. Sulfates are the catalyst behind the damage to a combined 600 homes in the Meadows and Alterra plus more than 125 homes in Acacia Crossings and Rancho El Dorado.

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