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I'm pages of the canals if you have those questions like said Damon and I will keep an eye on those and track those.

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But also you can still submit uh in accordance with a solicitation.

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So you'll see in this limitation did someone have a question.

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Looks like Damon had a question, Yeah this. This is Damon. I just wanted to let everybody know that I just turned on transcription. That's to help us track. The questions later on. I just wanna let everybody know that it's being transcribed.

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Thank you Damon.

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So the proposals are due on the 24th of May at 2:00 PM. Mountains time the questions after today, they'll be due on the 10th. So just know that if you submit your question on the 10th at 2:00 o'clock rather than 1:00 o'clock like it says.

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Umm I can't tell you that those questions will be answered. We'll do our best to get them answered and then post it out as an amendment to the solicitation, however.

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You know it's very cool to make sure that you review. Those specs and drawings and get those questions to myself and Damon they 1:00 o'clock.

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So we're not going to go into detail. However, I would highly recommend paying attention to sections.

Ellen ML is what we're asking for you to submit and then section M in this list station is going to tell you how we're going to evaluate what you submitted from section L.

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So this is our email, UM myself and Damon.

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So once we get all the questions we'll compile those questions hand them over to Tom and he and his team will evaluate and answer them to the best of their ability.

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We just wanted to make sure that.

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The date and time is here again and the questions for y'all even though they're there in this licitation.

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So the basis of the award really. I'm not again. Not gonna go into detail. It is all there in this limitation.

But we are doing best value continuing so if we decide that the best value is to pay a little bit more than because of the valuation of the technical factors. We have that right or vice versa, if it's a little lower.

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Umm we have that uh authority to do that.

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But making sure that that it's in a fair and reasonable price and this the best value to the government.

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Again.

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Sections L&M.

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If you have those any questions for those areas, please go ahead and submit this to us.

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So we do intend to evaluate the proposal and award without to discussion. However, we do have that right to open discussions after reviewing those the proposals from the solicitation.

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So I'm going to hand this over to Tom to talk about the line item structure. It's a little different than probably what you're used to seeing but just because of the number of canals and and the nature of the work. This is how we choose to put our clean instruction together so Tom.

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Thank you. Shelly, OK, Umm Let's see let me make this a little bit bigger, so I can see it.

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So we have as Shelly noted a number of canals that.

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We want to restore UM and Umm we have 2 different ways that we're gonna go about doing that.

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If we had.

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Well let me just say this the first, the first iteration. The first method is that what's called complete backfill or degradation. You'll see that noted in the documents and that's essentially taking the the spoil piles and backfilling them into the canals.

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For this page here, you'll see cleans one through 15.

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1234567. You'll notice that 8 is missing for the overall we took that out. That was another canal that was less critical to addressing the project.

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And then so one through 7. UM let me see if we can. It's gonna kind of be hard to refer to the map. But I'll do the best I can actually go up one. One page, there, please.

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So the the the first cleanse we have one CIT track 12 and 3, Horseshoe Canal Davis Marrero. Tar paper canal tar paper. Keyhole and pipeline and we'll get into some of the specifics. We'll look at the actual plan sheets. But these we've identified as a complete backfill complete degradation.

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Umm so we would we're asking for a backfill unit price for those sections. And if you wanna Scroll down that's the base price here Scroll down to the next one.

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Now the other.

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But.

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There you go stick right there.

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So we have several options.

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Number 9 North Canal, 10111213 and 14 are bio carbs and what we're doing here is we'd like to see depending on the bids if if we were able to afford all of it. I guess the the the overall goal would to be backfill. Everything recognizing that not not might be the case, depending on the bids. We're we're really asking for 2 things for.

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For these particular locations. We're asking for a price to do the the gapping methodology, which is a 25% gapping of the existing spoils and would like to also see based on you know the other calculations that you have for these ones to provide a?

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The full degradation, the full backfill on and that gives us the opportunity to.

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Adjust these particular areas if the funding is there to do that, so essentially that's a how that's structured is there any any initial questions on this particular piece here?

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This is John Ganya with Patriot construction.

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I have a question what else about the gapping what? What is 25% gapping?

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Essentially, what that means is if you're you have a a spoil of 100 feet long 25% of that or 25 feet would be gapped so you're basically taking your length and back filling that 25 foot component. We have some details in the back that we could look at but that's essentially conceptually how that works.

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So it makes sense.

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It it almost does.

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So if I have 100 feet long, I backfill 25 feet of it or a backfill 75 feet of it. You would backfill 25 feet of it, OK 25% Gap and I got you.

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And when you say complete backfill.

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You're talking about putting all of the existing spoil banks into the canal. What happens if we run out of spoils and then still got a canal.

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You would be you would just be doing whoever the contractors would just be doing what we have in the plan so if there's no spoil then you wouldn't have anything to move correct understand. Thank you sure complete backfill does not mean you know, we expect to to to not be left with some open water.

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For most, if not all of the project area. It just means complete degradation of the spoil banks.

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Thank you Yep.

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OK, any other questions on the Clinton structure.

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OK let's go ahead and go to project overview, dusty do you wanna?

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Lead us off.

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Yeah, so I'll give an overview and Tom Touch on some of the things that I'll I'll cover. Please bear with

me. For that and I'm sorry. I don't have slides, but there's only take 5 minutes or so and hopefully I can keep your attention for for that long so the the project is is a restoration project as we've said of canals and their associated spoiled deposits within the barataria preserve unit of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and preserve in.

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AT.

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Canals were constructed prior to the establishment of the National Park and preserve in the late 1970s.

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And as the canals were dredged.

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You know the excavated spoil material was placed on the the the sides of the canal that was being created, which created 12. Banks, which are like little levees or dams and they affect the way that water moves around the landscape and obviously the canals do as well. And that's a That's detrimental to the overall health of the landscape and the project is designed to to get back some of that that function and improve the.

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Hydrology of the the area, so as we've discussed the spoil banks would be created to to meet the elevation of the surrounding wetlands.

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And the open water of the canals would be partially filled with the the both the vegetation. That's growing on the sport. Banks currently as well as the spoil material that's above that that elevation of the JSON wetland.

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And it needs to be capable of working in a coastal deltaic wetland environment and to to access each one of the work sites from existing open water so the the canals themselves or or open water areas that that are in the the preserve or the project. School banks so that's an important mitigation feature that's built into the design.

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We don't want to damage the wetlands within the preserve that are not the focus of the project.

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And access is an important part of that consideration. There's other mitigation. That's that's built into the project to avoid or minimize its potential impacts to to things like navigation or threatening to dangerous species to see some examples of that.

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Uh maybe highlight those a little later.

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Umm and the project is is as again. We've been discussing it's designed to to improve hydrology of the the local landscape and to to restore wetland function values.

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Uh we degrade these Wilbanks and partially filled the canals. UM they're gonna revert to Marsh and Swamp and shallow water habitat to appropriate to to the site if we get the elevation right.

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Uh uh so we'll start growing grass and growing trees and uh that's the type for strees. Not Chinese taller trees. If you're familiar with those.

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And we'll we'll kick start that process in a few areas by planting some Cypress trees.

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Most of the project area will just degrade this blow bank and and that'll be it.

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Uh Scene 3 week experience with this type of project that uh.

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Start growing plants really, really rapidly.

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Have for stored habitat.

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Functions a lot like the surrounding landscape in in a real hurry and the project is is not just about the the very localized area of the canals and support backs itself. It's really designed again as a landscape scale restoration project at hopefully it enhances the resiliency of a significant wetland complex within the preserve which is significant in its own right as part of a unit of the National Park system. But it's also adjacent to more than 20 miles of the federal levy system that protects greater new.

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Collins flooding it uh buffers and provides additional flood protection.

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By itself and uh the wetland landscape is within an estuary that continues to experience one of the highest rates of land loss in the United States.

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Umm the project doesn't address all of the environmental factors that that create that land loss, but but again we're trying to improve the overall health of the landscape within the preserve and that should have beneficial effects. In the surrounding area. That's all I got hand it over to Tom to start running through the the drawings and talking about some of the.

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Specifics.

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OK, thank you dusty let me share my screen here.

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OK.

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Alright can everybody see the uh PDF. The This is page. GO 101.0 can everybody see that and read that.

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Yes, OK perfect OK, Umm so we'll go through the plans here and UM tends not to go every through every little.

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Word but some general concepts to keep in mind as you guys are putting your bids together.

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So, but if you have questions.

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I can you can either ask him now or after we're done it's up to you, I'm I'm flexible either way, so.

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So, but let's go ahead and start with the general overview here, UM of the project and you can see uh spare ataria preserve.

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Some of the uh canals themselves are clustered in particular areas bio carbs over here. CIT tracks up above here. Horseshoe Davis Marrero. Tar paper clustered over here and there's a couple ones that are stand alone essentially.

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Umm.

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What you have here and you can see this on the plans too? Is Umm overlaid on the the canal locations or the utilities. You can see oil lines. There's overhead lines. Not every particular site has issue with the the utilities, but this gives you a pretty good overview and identification here. I believe a couple of sheets in We look at some of the specific names of the.

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Of the utilities themselves and then we'll get into the specific locations. And we'll point those out as we go through so that's essentially that.

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Umm let's go to the next page.

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And I wanna get rid of that, so it's not blocking my view, it's not blocking my navigation here, so second page is access plan.

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UM and generally speaking, uh access to the sites most of the sites. There's a couple of unique situations, but essentially what you're gonna do. The access will come from by using net State Park, which is located for those of you not familiar. I think I have the Google Maps here. Here's our project area that we're talking about and north of that is.

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Bias in that State Park so you would come down, UM and the main spine here where you're gonna access. Many of the the locations would be for bio Signet itself.

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Going back to our sheet here, so the the examples. Uh the the unique examples that you probably want to keep in in mind. CCITT tracks here there's a couple of different ways. You can get to that Milodon Canal. I believe is the canal that runs.

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This would be an from Southwest and northeast along here, one of the challenges is that.

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For this particular location, you may have vegetation blocking access so that's something that you'll need to take into account now go take a look at there's other opportunities to get in here, you can also there's a federal levy system that's just north of here and I believe there is also a private property crossing. But what we can do once once a contractor selected, we can discuss more about that.

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How that's going to work uh but those are their those are your options to get to CIT?

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Horseshoe this cluster here, the this all is accessible from body Signet as is North Canal.

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And then the other special location would be via carps and the similar to the CIT. This may require some overland travel to get to. I believe this is 10. Number 10 canal and 11 canal, but that would essentially come from the Intercoastal Waterway, which is situated right here.

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Let's see OK.

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Moving on here to next page. Big bunch of notes for everybody to digest today. We'll just pick on a couple of the things to remember here again. Access is something that's will be a consideration for your bids.

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The sequence itself of which canals to do, I have have? There's a there's a couple of things to think keep in mind here and some of the locations that we have some active rookeries or rookeries in the vicinity and that may impact the time of year that you would actually be able to do the work. I think the 2 that come off the top of my head would be CIT&I think bio carbs are the 2 that fall under that category.

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And Umm.

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Let's see So what you'll do is working with the with the you know the project team and the park come up with a.

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You know your sequence there would be expressed in a you know, obviously your schedule and what we wanna do is try to just make sure everybody's on the same page as far as you know the the requirements of what you're going to do at the location and what the any limitations. There might be, whether it's a rubbery utility lines again we'll get into that.

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Ohm.

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Let's see so UM utility coordination 's gonna be pretty big as I already mentioned.

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And I think in some of for some of the locations the way that you actually go about doing the the degradation.

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You wanna be working from the back towards the entrance to be able to you know just from a from a construction standpoint and also from a wildlife standpoint, we have some requirements.

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Well, if you if you should see dolphins or manatees and this. This sequence of working from the back end, the farthest end in out would also allow for you know, avoiding the The The Wildlife Essentially.

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So keep it keep that in mind as well. Some of them are critical that you do that. I think North Canal and I think pipeline. I those are pretty much open and there's a couple of Cross.

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Access points to those as well so but UMCIT is another one where you would work back and I think on some of the pages that we'll get into kind of give you that sort of framework of which one of the 3. You would start and how you would move but we can look at that in a second.

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Uh.

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Let's see some of the.

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Key components I think that's probably good. We'll we'll probably refer back to this uh but again, I'm not gonna read that for everybody. Everybody's enjoyment here close this and back up one. So here G 103.

This is a good page to keep in mind as well.

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On this we have uh our contacts for the utility coordination.

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Entergy.

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As a transmission and distribution line Gulf Self has a pipeline enterprise pipeline and link and Shell, also have pipelines and what we've done on this page is we've provided.

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The actual contacts and the contractor who who selected would would.

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Uh pretty much uh coordinate with them directly. Obviously we'd like to know when that's happening and and participate on those calls. But we would expect that you guys would initiate those contacts you'll also note that some of the locations have some clearance requirements.

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You know there's some requirements as far as letting them know when you're getting close to a certain.

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Utility such as shell for example, and there's some cover requirements. Each canal is listed here where you would would find that Davis Marrero, obviously for the transmission for energy. Entergy excuse me.

We did this parallel, but that's not on there, so I would don't disregard parallel canal that's not part of the scope.

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But you can see all the other ones here and then the.

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And station range where the crossing occurs in the corresponding sheet.

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Let's go on to the next page. Any questions about utilities at this at this point.

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OK sounds good.

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Next couple of pages in the plans really just give you an overview of the the ecology. As Destiny noted there's a combination of forested and marsh areas.

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Umm you know, obviously you're hatching tells you which one is which uh the the some of the canals are associated with Invasives and and one of the issues. One of the things we're trying to do with the project is to to remove those invasives and plant some bald Cypress to extend that particular landscape.

So these just show you this is broken down into 4 sections. This page shows you CIT tracks.

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Horseshoe Uh Davis Marrero and tarpit the 2 tar paper canals.

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I'm going to the next one.

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This is really sort of A.

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Top end tar paper. Here's North Canal, we're basically moving South.

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Oops this bear with me the.

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The controls a little bit, UM sensitive here so and then here's Uh Pipeline Canal. You can see mainly marsh and then the last page for this is bio carps and with your the Intercoastal Waterway adjacent there.

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So moving on to monitoring.

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Right This is not this.

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OK, good after that, G 181.8.

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Uh this page shows you we have a number of monitoring locations. And now there is a we do have an active.

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Monitoring contract that's that is placed uh equipment in the field now.

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Here's your reference number and we'll we'll point out the locations of each one as we go through the sheets here, but the point here is that you'll see on the plans themselves. It's the monitoring locations are indicated as as points as you can see in the photos. These aren't necessarily photos of the the actual equipment in the field for the project, but it gives you a rough idea of what these assemblies look like and.

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Our main task here is to avoid them. So, we, we give requirements uh buffer areas to stay clear of in terms of some of the backfilling and the gapping operations. I mean, I think that's something that would be indicated that would be a good item to be indicated on a work plan as you're setting that up for you're going to work in a particular canal and this would be one of your requirements and one of the things that you want to be cognizant of if they're damaged they need to be replaced.

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But this

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Umm we could even potentially bring them in at the kickoff. Uh once we have a contractor selected but you know the the takeaway is to to avoid these be aware that they're there and do not damage them

OK.

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Umm.

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Let's move on to the next page.

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OK, well now we can start talking about some of the specific.

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Sites any questions at this moment.

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OK.

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So first up PCI T tracked canals there's 3 of them.

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I'd leave they're named 12 and 3 what you can see here on this page. This is this shows you one and 2 essentially one is this long. L shape here that goes across the page number 2? Is this short one here and then 3. You can see the beginnings of 3. If you go down one page, essentially here's 3. Here's the end of.

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One and then here's 3 I would recommend as you're going through the review keep track of your North Arrow as you can see the the the the orientation changes a little bit so that's something you wanna keep in mind as you're doing, you're putting together your your numbers so back to this first page here.

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Uh earlier in the presentation. I talked about sequencing and this is a good example here. Ultimately, what we wanna do is we wanna get the the the areas that are farthest away and work our way back so for example, for this particular canal set the first one, that we would be doing would be the number 2, which is this piece here, so equipment comes up here. You begin your backfill operations actually this is the better one to refer to because this is a full.

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Pulled back fill full degradation, so station 11685. You work, your way to station 100. You would come back up to station zero work your way to approximately 55 Scroll down once. You've completed work at

55. You jump over to station 85 and work your way back to station 200, here and you'll notice that this canal has.

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A gas line at roughly at station 85 the nice thing about that is. It's a It's off to the edge. So you're really don't have that much to worry about per se. It's not crisscrossing everything.

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And you'll also know for CIT track number one. We have a monitoring site here, so this is the first monitoring site to be cognizant of.

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See if I have anything else, I wanna mention and this particular location.

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Bear with me, so we already talked about say again this is a location where we're planting. These 3 canals or the the only ones.

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Uh where we plant cyberstreams.

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Yes, right so here in your notes you gives you some some information on the bald Cypress plantings.

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One minor utility and bear in mind that you would be responsible for verifying field dimensions and all that kind of stuff so.

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Uh I think there's some sections in here.

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The general the notes on the the right side or general notes, but I think there's some not particular to this one. But there's some protected features that would be flagged and I think for some gapping areas that there would also be some flagging so there's going to be a little back and forth with the park itself in relation to where you're working.

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Scroll down here. We talked about the monitoring site and then trying to get rid of that thing there.

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OK, there, we go.

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So we're looking at uh CIT number 3 again, you know you have your plantings along that the the extent of this any questions on CIT track canals 12 and 3.

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OK, if something strikes as we're going along. Feel free to jump in or wait till the end. Whatever your preference is let's go ahead and move on to our next. Canal Horseshoe Canal, which is 2 pages here again your North Arrow so keep that in mind.

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And the things to point out here. This is also a full backfill and we do have planting bulbs wipers at this location as well so that's essentially you know, reading the notes and we do have a monitoring site here as well at approximately station. Where is that in between 315 and 320?

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Let's see one other item to keep in mind, so we'll Scroll down the next page. Here, where there's a crossover canal here and one of the things that you need to do as you approach. These sorts of features is we do not want to have impacts on this is bio both.

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UM.

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So we wanna we're doing our work here and then we're jumping over so protect banks and the waterway to existing by a buff and that may that that'll be a a?

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They're not occurrence for some of these other locations as well.

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Let's see this is also.

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A section where we would also sequence. The UM the the where, you're starting so you would oops OK, you're starting at 3:00, 100 and then working your way back.

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Down to 340, plus or minus and this is this is the bend on the other other page. So and then jump over to 37095 and then come work your way back in and then out and then that's done so. This horseshoe again is accessible for the from the next one which is Davis Marrero.

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I believe this is tar paper here, but you would you would get to horseshoe and if you go back and you look on that that first overall site plan, you can see how that works so.

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Questions on Horseshoe Canal.

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OK, Next one.

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Davis Marrero, 00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:22.130 again, we're doing the we're doing all of the I think we're doing all of the full backfill ones first so this one gets a little bit more hectic shall we say.

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Umm you can kind of see some of the features here we have crossovers with utilities. There's the Entergy overhead line.

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We also have a end link gas pipeline here.

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This.

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I believe this line here is nothing this is a tile line so but the utilities themselves are pretty much indicated so you would go back to the I think it's page. G 1.9, then your contacts are there and and those initial requirements.

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Tell you what types of things you would need to be doing for those for this particular site.

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We do have another monitoring station here.

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This is one where we do not have.

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Tree is added to it, so you know you're proposed conditions pretty much tell you, which ones. There are so we've gone from backfill entries to just backfill for this location. And I think a lot of that has to do with the overhead lines.

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Umm.

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So.

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But you're starting to get into more utility crossings here. That's what particular to this location. And I think there's also one other feature here that's new this is a protected feature.

00:36:41.220 --> 00:36:53.020

UM natural cultural resource feature that we're gonna stay away from we essentially provide a 35 foot buffer so you would work your way out.

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400.

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To station was at 4:00, 4681, and you're essentially stopping at this point. This would be protected, and this would also be flagged and I think this is one of the ones that the park will flag protective features will be flagged by the the park. National Park Service before the the work would be started in any event so.

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Any questions on Davis Marrero.

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Just uh dusty again one one sort of clarification. Thanks for for pointing out that I was. I was wrong before that. CIT wasn't the only place where we're planting trees. We're also doing that on on Horseshoe. But I did want to indicate that the the places where we're planting trees are generally where the canals run through a swamp. So where they're there are trees on the the landscape adjacent to the.

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The canal feature and we're starting to to look at portions of the project area where it's a It's a marsh adjacent so wouldn't want to plant trees in those areas where we're just growing grass.

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Yeah, so as you exactly as we go from north to South. It transitions from more forested to more marsh, so and you can see based on the the overall layout of the canals themselves and the existing vegetation drawings show that so thank thank you dusty.

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OK let's go to the next canal this is tar paper.

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Umm and just as a point of reference. UM this canal here. This is Davis Marrero as it ties into tar paper.

So if we think about the the last couple of ones that we've looked at Horseshoe.

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And then Davis Marrero and then you come back to you would be doing tar paper. There's 2 components to the tar paper canal, but this would be the of those 4.

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This last section 500 to 540 would be the last one that you would do in this in this particular location within the preserve.

00:39:13.630 --> 00:39:19.640

UM and sequence wise this is a this is the Tar Paper Keyhole.

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Umm you would do this first.

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And then you would follow up with the the main line for tire pick tar paper here.

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Pull back fill we have some utilities. I think there's the overhead here and cross is here.

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We have a monitoring point well that's referred to that's actually part of.

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Davis Marrero, but

00:39:48.520 --> 00:39:50.080 just to keep that in mind.

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Let's see what else then again, we already talked about our protective feature UM.

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There is a note here on the left, right hand side a depth of cover that we would want to measure as you go through the selected contractor goes through the coordination that would be one of the areas where that would be required to coordinate with the utilities themselves so any questions on tar paper.

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And Tarpaper Keyhole.

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OK.

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Next we have North Canal, so uh. We're we're continuing our way South here. UM North Canal UM.

Here's Bayesian net you can see it's accessible.

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UM.

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I think this is sound like Salvador, uh on your right hand side where's the uh?

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Yes, that's like Salvador for reference. This is a one of the shorter ones that we're doing, and what's unique about this one? Is this is the first one, that is going to be gapped.

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But there's a couple of things going on so generally speaking, you know, we talked about the percentage of gapping you know this. This tone here, you can see is that this is the gapping we have another protected feature that will be flagged to avoid with our 35 foot buffer, which is on the southeast side.

It's kind of upside down again. North arrow and on the north side. We have a monitoring site and.

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Another note here and I probably should have mentioned uh as applicable.

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Umm the the decoration that relating to the monitoring there's also there is a a buffer of about a 250 feet on each side, so each each page going back through you'll see you'll see the corresponding notes for the the monitoring but that's essentially what's going on? What's happening with that one.

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So our first gapping any questions on North Canal.

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OK.

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Next we have pipeline pipeline is a couple of this is the long one.

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C 2.2 versus 2 C 2 point.

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5.

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We have

00:42:31.770 --> 00:42:44.850 several utility connection or crossings here this one. Actually, I should correct myself here. This is actually full back full as well.

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So North was the first one with gapping but we'll we'll get to the other ones you know just so I'm not confusing. Anybody here we do not have trees planted with this we're in in the marsh area now, so it's not appropriate to do that.

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And that's kind of toggle through the the the sheets here, so next. One just to continuation on the sections pretty straightforward. There is a pipeline that goes down the middle of the canal so that will need to be protected as you look at the details. You'll you'll see how the the the.

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The degradation supposed to work I mean, there's limited material and the intent is not to fill everything up so the as you bring the material. The materials brought off or the The The Spoil Bank. It's gonna you know start to fill up, but it's not gonna all it's not going to go across so you just have to be cognizant of this pipeline as you're working in this section, and I guess it goes looks like it goes out the whole way down.

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So scrolling down to the next one.

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Umm we have monitoring site here.

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We have an overhead.

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Power line here.

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We have a crossover with UM by Signet here and here's a new feature that we can talk a little bit about Umm. It's called the check meander and a couple of different things going on here so.

00:44:30.220 --> 00:44:48.730

What we're doing is you can see in this section here is the the complete backflow. I I think this is this is also I'm not sure why this is not mentioned as stop spoiled bank degradation, so between here and here is where we're gonna we're gonna limit the degradation and it looks like from from here down.

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Umm we're both Cypress becomes a bum abundant.

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Bear with me is I'm just reading the notes here.

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OK.

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So check me under this is what this is, is functioning to do is Umm it. It's

00:45:14.340 --> 00:45:30.270 feature and we'll show you the detail if you haven't seen it already but it's a It's a way of limiting material going back and forth into the navigable waterway here and the primary concern would be loose trees of that nature so this.

00:45:31.110 --> 00:45:57.460

This this feature allows for water to move through UM, but it limits anything else that come in through it, and I think you could you could probably go over it as well. It's it's a little bit, it's not very deep, but it provides that sort of buffer to it. You know things going back and forth here. So we have 2 checked meanders on each side of bias and net here for the.

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Pipeline canal any questions on that we'll talk a little bit more about the the check meander as we get to the details.

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OK.

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Moving on now we go to buy you a car.

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So this is the last.

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Cluster UM these are all.

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Uh excuse me these are all gapped.

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Canals.

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And this is also these are areas where the the access is a little bit more challenging in that there's not a an opening to get directly in so you'll you would need to keep that into account. I think 12 and or 10 and 11 what which which will look at it in a second.

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Show that a little bit better than me describing it so.

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We present uh 12, here first.

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You know check meanders we have a couple of well sites.

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Umm that will be removed. That's part of the scope of the project as well. I believe there's a total of 4 and they're all situated within bio carbs that there's there's essentially 5 canals within this particular section of the of the park.

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3. Tom. Sorry there's only 3 well so there's 4 well sites total, but only 3 are we gonna sort of address in any way.

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By by removing material as part of the project, the 4th one. We just need to protect does the heroic one is the protection one right correct OK? Yeah, we'll get to that. That's that number 10 so anyway. A couple of well sites to be removed. The one particular feature for this number 12 is.

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Let's see I'm out of sequence here bear with me one second number 12? Is this There's a structure there that we wanna remove it's an old building and I believe there's only.

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Yeah, I don't think there's any utilities. That's just the I think it was an old movie set and we're just looking to take it away. There's probably you know, I I think there's only 2 sides of it that need to be removed so it's essentially wood.

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And that's you know just some random condition that we want to address as we're going through the the the backfilling and gapping process.

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AM.

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Let's see bear with me one second.

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OK, there's several utilities to account for for number 12.

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Overhead line here, UM.

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Moving on to the next section.

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And this is actually still 12.

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It doesn't look like there's any other utilities here, so that that makes that pretty easy. We'll go to next 113 and 14.

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Here's 13 and then 14.

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Many features of note it looks like this is all gaps spoiled uh thank degradation monitoring site. It doesn't look like our our point showed up. But you know, we have, we do have one here.

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And again we would be doing the degradation.

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Umm and adjacent to that site and we wanna have that.

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This is the end of 13 for point of reference. Here's the Intel Intercoastal Waterway.

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Umm.

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And you can see it now they're checked me under here.

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And here's another well site that we would be removing that's the I think that's the 3rd one.

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And then

00:50:13.950 --> 00:50:18.440 bio carbs number canal number 10 and canal number 11.

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And this is a good one to look at just from the standpoint of access. Here's your Intercoastal Waterway, but actually getting over you may have to go overland to get to this particular location again. CIT tracks would could potentially have that same condition and then here's the the other well site that dusty prove pointed out this is the heroic well site and this one we would be protecting.

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So both of the this number 10 and you'll see the next one. These are also both.

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Gapped.

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Let's see moving on to the next.

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Here's 11 similar it's similar to number 10. They're both little short ones. Both next to each other again.

The access issues would be the main thing for here and and this is this is also a gapped canal site.

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So let's see.

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Erosion control plans. I think the main thing to take away from this is that we'll be setting up turbidity curtains.

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Uh to protect any sediment from leaving the the project work sites.

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You know in this these pages just point out where those are.

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Umm.

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You know, and I think that.

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Probably what you want to do is just account for I'm not that familiar with the turbidity curtain. There's a potential for potentially reusing it, but I think for the purposes of the bid. You just indicate that you.

You you get a new one for each one there's not that many to do.

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You know you could potentially cluster these as well, so anyway. Just you know going through this real quick here.

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Umm.

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To our paper north canal?

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But again pipeline and then you know finally ending up. This is a good shot. So, we, we have number 1213 coming down here and then 10, and 11 and then there's I think 14 is this little one right here.

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OK, some details let me catch up on like.

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Page turn here.

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And.

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So just some you know existing conditions this kind of gives you an idea of what the conceptually what the the canals look like you have your open canal and then the spoil banks. This shows you. You know the intersection areas and essentially what we would be doing is protecting the the maintaining the navigability of of you know, I think it's mainly by assuming that waterway there may be a couple others here so.

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Brook area here and then this stays open again we would be using the check meanders here gives you a just a typical section of what you see and some of the spoiled banks with trees.

00:53:33.010 --> 00:53:33.710

UM.

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With varies between the canals and the depth also varies as well so.

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Here's a the detail on the spoiled bank degradation, so you can see here's where the the spoil bank used to be and we're placing the material down along the edge of the canal here.

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Umm as you can see it's

00:53:57.930 --> 00:54:09.760 you can controlling that particular shape might be a little bit of a challenge. But it's it's really more to give you the idea of what this is put down in here.

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Proposed Canal Gap design uh this relates to the 25% again and what we're looking for is more of a staggered approach for the gapping you know it'll have to be laid out in the field and and figure it out.

But what we want to try to do is not have the the gap in.

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Directly across from each other so it should be consistent. Even and it says evenly distributed. So you can just take your length and and and divide and and go from there.

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Umm proposed canal staggered gaps design. This just gives you some sections about what that's it's similar to the the other section. We looked at for the the total degradation, the backfilling it's just representative for this particular approach.

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Umm.

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OK.

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Here's the check meander.

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Detail here's our navigable waterway. This would be your canal that you've you've backfilled or gapped.

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And then they check me and or you can see.

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We're we're filling we're putting material in here, but you can see, there's a little bit of a a depth here. I think it's a It's it's a minimum of 3 foot depth, so you can still get through this, but essentially?

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Closes off

00:55:42.840 --> 00:55:47.190 the the particular location that we're we're showing that they need to be.

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Here's some planting.

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Backfill details you know what do you debris deposit in a canal? I think it can also be chipped but if they're not chipped we would embed them. This here shows navigate volcano house where we would be placing the woody debris.

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Apparently it's essentially parallel to where they're the opposite of this particular approach. They're parallel to the the canal itself.

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These are some more representative details for each one of these showing you how that works.

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And I think that's the last page.

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So we kind of ran through the details pretty quickly any questions on.

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On any of the the sites that we talked about or any questions on the details.

00:56:47.000 --> 00:57:00.930

That anyone anyone wants to throw out there, we can go to a particular location. If you wanna go back and look at something so I'll open it up to you guys to to ask any questions that you might have.

00:57:09.950 --> 00:57:14.050

I have a couple questions John Gagnier would patriot.

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So there are a lot of places where you all should show uh Paul Bank height.

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Paul bank height and width.

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Is it safe to assume that?

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From one noted dimension to the next that the canal is the spoil bank is relatively consistent and cross section.

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Uh detail itself.

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Well, because the drawing that's on the drawing that's on the screen now OK uh across the top it.

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It indicates 2 locations with the width and the height yes.

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And then in this case, the heights vary by what 2 and a half feet.

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And the wealth by about 10 feet.

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So is it safe to assume that the cross section of the spinal bank between those 2 points.

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Varies evenly or is it?

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