 Good evening and welcome to the community meeting for Lobo channel at 28th street and to cater Avenue channel improvements project. It's October 7th, 2021, and this is this meeting will be recorded. And posted on the city's website that the address is shown below. It's also will be posted to the city's YouTube channel. Later after this meeting, my name's Michael. Well, Bob, I'm the project manager in the stormwater capital delivery office from city of Port Worth. Our project engineer on this project is Matthew Busby. He's with Lockwood, Andrews and new num. Also with us tonight is Myra. She is the council aid for council member flores. He couldn't be with us tonight. But I can tell you that we greatly appreciate his support of this project. He's been a great friend and supporter of the stormwater. Office of the city for work and all of the improvements that we're we're working on and we greatly appreciate his his support. And are happy to have my right here tonight. Hello, good evening. I just want to thank you for presenting and I want to thank Jeffrey for getting this organized for the community and we'll proceed with your presentation. Great. Thank you very much. I'm really happy to have you here tonight and tell council member flores. We, we do appreciate him as his support. As I move through this project tonight, if you have questions, you're welcome to put them in the chat window or at the end of the presentation. I'll be happy to open the floor to questions if there are any as we get to the end of the project. I'm going to give you a little bit of background on the project and then we'll talk about the project scope and I've got some schedule information and we'll wrap it up with some questions tonight. So starting with a little bit of the background on the project. This project is one of several projects that are have occurred and will continue to occur along the channel corridor. That corridor runs from the West fork of the Trinity River at the south end and the upper end of the channel project is almost up near Meacham airport runs through the Diamond Hill community across Long Avenue. And that extends down to this area at 28th street. We've had several improvements over the years, one of which is the 28th street crossing. We've, we've increased the culverts culverts at that location at the brand Dewy street crossing to the north. And most recently, we completed Brennan street to the south. All of those culvert improvements were necessary to provide capacity for the channel as we enter into this next phase of widening the channel and creating a greater capacity to convey floodwater. Which is the primary reason for this project is, is to prevent over topping at 28th street and some of the flooding that occurs under the railroad tracks. So this project is located on 28th street right at the Decatur Avenue intersection. We don't anticipate really getting into the, into the street or pavement or traffic at all. This will mostly be a channel widening project and an excavation at that location. So just a couple other background photos that I thought were pretty important to include. And if you live in the area, you certainly know what happens in large storm events at the railroad crossing. They're just to the west of Decatur Avenue floodwaters do tend to, to occur at that location. This project will, will be one of two things that are going to help alleviate that flooding. This project will provide additional capacity in the channel. The second part of that is a. Text stop project that's currently under design independent of this project, but, but that text stop project will increase storm drain capacity at this intersection and make some improvements to the roadway. So the two projects combined will greatly reduce the potential for flooding at that location. The other picture is just another picture along the channel. The channel is just to the left of the fence that you see in the picture. And at times floodwaters do flow through that, through that area you can see on the fence the debris and then things have been caught over the years with flooding in this area. So to address project scope. One of the first things I want to point out is that the existing culvert crossing at 28th street is going to remain. We're not going to change it or remove it. It'll, it'll stay mostly untouched. You can also see in this picture the existing channel, excuse me, the existing channel alignment. In the black line that kind of meanders from the right side of the screen down to the left side of the screen. That's the existing channel as it is today. And that in that undersized channel is what we are planning to address in this project. So the next slide shows a schematic layout of what improvements will occur in this location. Mostly we're realigning the channel, lowering the bottom of the channel, and then we've got some improvements plan that will help stabilize the channel bottom. We also have a core permit, US Army Corps of Engineers permit. It's an individual permit that will address the restoration of landscaping and environmental features along the project. And, and ultimately, it'll be very similar to the project that we did at Britain Street himself. So in this picture, you'll notice a kind of a gray, wide gray line that meanders through from the right to the left. That is the, is the proposed channel bottom. It'll be a pilot channel that will convey low flows. The little blue features that you see periodically along the channel are armoring that will prevent the channel from moving, kind of keep, maintain the alignment that we're establishing. And those will also provide for riffle pools and a little bit of turbulence in the flow that helps oxygenate the water and aids and water quality ultimately. The green areas that you see on the, on both sides of the channel are riparian buffer zones, basically planting zones that will occur in the, in the flood, the floodway area of the channel. Those are intended to help stabilize the channel bottom and, and offer some environmental benefits through, through catching silken debris. And then, as you move out away from the green area on the bottom of the page or the east side of the channel, you'll notice a lot of what look like polka dots. And those are our trees and additional riparian plantings that are intended to meet the requirements of the US Army Corps of Engineer Permit. And then on the opposite side of the channel, the west side, which will be at the top of the screen, there are fewer polka dots. That area is intended to be more of a urban, park-like setting, maybe a little fewer trees and a little more open along that area. That's part of the core mitigation area. So, so the plantings will likely be a little bit different. At the right side of the screen, you'll see a big kind of box that has two blue ovals in it. Those are stilling basins or, or sedimentation basins. As the flow enters this area from the, from the north or off the right side of the screen, it will cascade down these two pools, one, the one on the right is at a higher elevation than the one on the left. So the water can, can spill over and cascade down into the channel. And that will help with reducing velocities and reducing the potential for erosion and scouring in the channel over time. And, and those are necessary until a future project comes along to, to continue this channel section further north. But that'll be a, this is a phased approach to pick single about channels. So there'll be many projects as we move forward in the future. This next image is, is a section through the channel. If you were standing in the channel bottom, this is kind of what it would look like. You see right in the center, that bank full section or the pilot channel section where, where most of the low flows will occur. And then you see the floodplain bench or riparian buffers that extend out on each side. That's a little bit of a, of a low flat area with plantings that are more native or conducive to, to that zone of the channel. And then as, as you extend up the banks on the right side of the screen represents that core mitigation area. It's an enhanced zone with, with more trees and shrub like plantings that are, are specified in the US core permit. On the left side of the screen, you see the, the urban landscaping area. That area is intended to be a little bit more open fewer trees and, and maybe a little more manicured than the, than the right side of the channel. But that's a, that's a typical channel section through, through the work that we're doing. One additional feature that we're, that we included in the project from a planning perspective is a trail extension. And I'm happy to, to report that we've partnered with the park and recreation department and secured funding. So we've been able to actually include this trail in the project. It'll be a nice amenity that will connect the text rail station that's there at the corner of Northeast 28th and Decatur. It'll connect that, that station through Trail Drivers Park and South past Brennan and to the, to the neighborhood there south of Trail Drivers Park. So this will be a great extension to continue that trail theme in this part of the, in this part of the city. So the last slide I have is kind of an overview or a recap of what we've talked about. Of course, this, this is a roadway over topping project mitigation project. Intended to reduce the potential for flooding at 28th Street and provide for greater conveyance of flood water. And as I mentioned, the tech stop project that's, that's being designed now will continue to address flooding under the railroad and the railroad underpass there to the, to the west and continue to make that area safer area for pedestrians and for traffic. This project's also also will restore floodplain function from a, from a natural standpoint and the environmental standpoint. It'll, it'll reduce maintenance costs as well with the addition of features that will help prevent sedimentation and erosion and the channel should help reduce further maintenance costs. In terms of schedule. I'm, I'm really happy to announce that we're ahead of schedule. The folks at Lockwood Enders and new number design engineers done a great job of getting this project designed and helping move it along. So, while we originally planned to be complete with our design in the spring of 2022, we're actually looking to complete it in the next month or so. This, this project meeting was designated to be the 60% plan review meeting, but we're actually at 90%. So they've moved quite rapidly. All of that should get us started in construction about about 6 months to a year before we initially thought we would start construction. So that's, that's good news for us and a good way to get another project under our belt. This project is funded through bonds. So the, the estimated cost is 5.2 million for the total project design and construction and everything included. So we're really happy to have this one close to the being on the ground and looking forward to reducing the flooding and issues that have occurred in the past at 28th Street. And with all of that said, I have gotten to the end of my presentation and I'd love to open the floor to questions. Again, my name is Michael. Well, bomb my telephone numbers, 8173 927343 email address is Michael got well bomb. At Fort Worth, Texas dot gov. Well, bomb spell W. L. L. B. A. U. M. And you can also find information about this project on the city's website. Easiest way to do that is to go to the city's website and type lebo channel in the search bar on the website. And that'll take you right to this project and some other information about the channel. So with that said, are there any questions this evening? I don't see anything in the chat window. So I want to thank everyone for participating tonight. It looks like we've we've gotten. Oh, I do have a thank you. You're welcome. I'm really happy to be able to present this and this project spend one that I've been involved with for quite a number of years. So it's I'm looking forward to getting this built. This video will be posted on the city's website. So if, if, if you know anybody that wasn't able to attend, please let them know they can go download this video and see what we're doing. Thank you again for attending. And with that, I'll say good night. I thank you. You're welcome.