 Engineer with the Transportation and Public Works group in the Capital Delivery Division. And so what we do is we deliver specifically Soulmarker Capital Improvements And so what we're looking at tonight is The 6th Avenue Channel Maintenance Project. We're at about 6% on the plans right now So what we're gonna what we're looking at is kind of the 6th Avenue from the I-20 service road down to The Edgecliff Road, which is right there at the border of the City of Fort Worth and Edgecliff Village Kind of all throughout here, most of you know that you know, there's been some erosion that's taking place throughout the area and So we're looking to come in and maintain the channel and then try to stop the erosion and mitigate some of those some of the erosion that's taking place Here we have a handful of pictures of kind of what the channel looks like today and This may have this may have changed after the large rain event I hadn't heard anything but if you if you've noticed any changes feel free to let us know what's changed But we do know there's some erosion taking place and we're looking to to come in and make some improvements to kind of stop the erosion and and stabilize the channel So This this exhibit what we're showing is really just kind of the limits of what we're looking at the the pink That or that magenta color kind of represents Where we're looking at making these improvements and the improvements that we're looking at installing our pier and column walls And so what that would consist of would be coming in and periodically drive drilling piers into the ground in the bank And then installing a column and then putting a panel in between those various columns To help support the bank so the bank doesn't come won't continue to erode in Now now with that, you know that they're I'm going to go back one side real quick just so we can kind of Look at all the trees, you know one of the things that we're working on in our design It's trying to optimize how many trees we can leave because you know trees are trees are vital as far as they do Help with some of the bank stabilization, but they also help Make an area look nicer, but you know that they do provide benefits So our goal is to leave as many trees as we can though. We will have to remove some And we'll have more details on that in the next community meeting as far as you know What trees are going to you know, we'll have a better idea of exactly which trees are going to have to come out And which ones may have to be trimmed But some you know some of the tree trimming is going to be I guess work of this one because the trees are going to continue to grow While we're finishing the design and getting ready to start construction So again, you know the magenta lines represent where we intend to to make the channel repairs This engineering e-drawing is really just intended to show kind of what that might look like this dashed line This dashed line here Represents what the kind of kind of what the channel looks like today and then these peers that kind of go below the grade That's the peer and column wall that we're looking to install the blue lines on the screen represent What the existing fences are and this is just one example? This isn't that saying that this is exactly what it'll look like at every location But this is just kind of a typical example of what it might look like so, you know with this with this potential approval we're having to balance is The need for a potential US Army Corps of Engineers permit which the you know While we're the city and we do ask for our residents to get permits whenever they're doing different construction projects The federal government will ask us to get various Permits depending on what we're doing and channels is one of those things that the federal government Does have some impact input into and so that's all how we kind of come to this To this idea so that we can try to minimize the impact of to what's called navigable waters of the US And we're also making trying to one I'm wanting to make sure That we are not reducing the capacity of the channel. We want to make sure the channel Will continue to carry the same amount of water after construction is done as it does today I thought that we're not making any flooding worse And we're also wanting to make sure as I'm sure you may have noted on this You were not planning to do anything to the channel bottom That means that channel bottom is going to be a little going to continue to be natural Which means it may still continue to your road at the channel bottom, but by putting in these pier and column wall What that does that means that the channel won't continue to get wider and then start eating into different into various backyards So that's that's kind of the solution that we're looking at here Just to run through handful of the project details, you know The benefit of this project is we want to mitigate the erosion that's that's our primary goal We're working on design now. We anticipate can anticipate completing the design in winter 2022-2023 and bidding and awarding starting at that point with construction to possibly start in the spring Depending on on the responses of the bidders and we're showing a two-year construction time frame right now While that's a little bit long for this channel in particular, but the way that we're bidding this project We're coupling it with another project that has a very similar type of repair method and What that does that provides some benefit to the city in that a We'll get a single contractor who who can work on both of them Both of the channels which will reduce some of that unit cost because they'll have a bigger project to deal to take care of So we get some economies of the scale When you have a bigger project So we have a two-year time frame on here not because this channel will take two years But because we don't know which channel That contractor would would address first if they would do this channel first or if they would address the other channel first We just don't have that information at this time So that's why the two-year timeline for construction I The our the estimated cost at this point is about 1.3 million for the construction And and it's stormwater revenue bond funded and with that I'll go ahead and open it up to any question So are there any questions that are in the chat mr. Crenshaw No, I didn't see any I think we can just like you've done in the past maybe just Go down the list with the anyone Start I guess Jason maybe you want to go ahead and you can unmute and fire away Hey, can you hear me? Yes. Yeah. Hey, so I was just curious Because I know this channel kind of does some snaking around and it ends up behind Greenbrier And we've noticed that there's a large stretch of the channel. That's got that's completely concreted out with like Concrete ramp walls and concrete floor and I was just curious if there was a specific reason y'all we're not doing that because it seems like that would be I Don't I don't I don't completely understand those diagram, but it seems like that would be more stable I was just curious and so, you know, you know Concreting channels is really something that the you the US Army Corps of Engineers really frowns on And so while it can be done what that will wind up triggering is what's called an individual permit for a project Which is going to trigger, you know potentially Maybe a hundred the two hundred thousand dollars worth of mitigation banking Which means okay now now city you caused this loss of of this What's called below the ordinary how a watermark you've caused this loss of a natural resource and so now Since you can't make it up in your project because you're putting concrete everywhere now you have to pay into a mitigation bank That that will serve that purpose and there aren't really any mitigation banks nearby which means You know those mitigation bank dollars would be put in other areas So with the solution that we're that we're that we've come up with now It allows us to not trigger that mitigation bank need and Keep the channel a little bit more natural As far as the full line of it goes or the bottom of it goes Gotcha, I mean, I guess as long as it's effective. That's what matters most to us as residents, right? My other concern is something you sorry go ahead I'll go back to this diagram again, you know So the way this you know if this is the channel today You know the way that that erosion happens like the bottom will start getting lower Which means those banks will start getting steeper and then the banks will fall in and then the voice Then it'll be kind of wider again. The banks won't be as steep So what these walls do they kind of serve as cut-off walls so that as the channel may kind of naturally Try to widen a little bit it'll hit these hard point and it won't be able to widen and get into private property Gotcha, and yeah, that actually kind of brings me into my next question because you mentioned something earlier about not wanting the channel to get not not wanting the channel to get narrower and I'm we're concerned about that because like I don't know what everybody else's backyard looks like but for me Like the only thing stopping my friends fence from like being sideways into the creek is like a is a telephone pole and some of my like my next-door neighbor on one side looks like even worse and I mean, I haven't looked at our you know our title or anything But in my head we may have already even lost land because you know the fence line isn't always Where the land is but my biggest concern is like that thing is huge behind my house. It's and I've never When we moved in since we moved in probably I don't know eight years ago now something like that It's gotten substantially wider like at least twice the width and I got to tell you I mean the whole time I've lived here. I've never seen that thing even kind of full and I'm not an engineer or anything, but I just can't see why it needs to be as wide as it is especially because That's not gonna Fix anybody's fence lines that are currently falling like halfway falling into the creek because to us. It's you know It's it's basically a sewage channel. It's not like it's a creek where you know, we could fish in it or you know It's it doesn't add any value to our homes It's just a you know, it's just a sewer creek behind our house That's trying to eat our our property and so I'm just curious as to why there's not going to be any effort to narrow the bank and its widest part so to Fix some of that Erosion that's already happened. That's already like I mean the power pole behind my house I don't know. I mean, I don't know if it'll last the two years because there's so much erosion before it falls into the creek yeah, and You know trying to shrink its handle down is not an easy thing to do because if you start saying oh Well, we want to shrink it down and then all of a sudden somebody somebody floods because the storm came That we haven't seen we you know, that's not really a risk that we can that we can really take You know, I know you've been there for eight years and you've seen you've seen some good size storms But more than likely we haven't seen that what we would consider as the design storm to come through here Which is why we just really can't Reduce the channel capacity Now on the on the utility pole if it's leaning more You know those utility poles poles are owned by on core Especially if they have power on them and if it's leaning I think I don't remember what their threshold is But then you have a threshold for if it's leaning beyond a certain amount they'll come out and set a new pole to address that While we're still working to get this the design up and running Gotcha, I guess in my head there's the the current capacity of the channel isn't really by design It's just by nature in my head. And so to me it doesn't feel like it's good But that and that's that's heavily a function of when the area was developed. I Want to say the houses were built in the 60s. Is that about right? Yeah, they were built this house was built in the 50 in fact my wife's grandma Actually was the first owner of the house we're in and in fact when when she bought the house She was actually told by the city that that would be an alleyway, which is how the rest of the neighborhood works Which obviously I don't I don't see that happening at this point. I think that was before the interstate was even built which But Yeah, just it's It just seems like there's no way that it needs to be that wide, but you know, like I said, I'm not an engineer, but Just kind of we most likely when when the channel was put in it had fairly low standard as far as what it needed to carry And then if you just kind of zoom out a little bit and take a little bit bigger picture of the area and think about how much has changed in that timeline From how much additional concrete is now on the ground You know, so the channel was probably never really designed and really what an eroding channel is telling us is that it's responding to changes in the environment Which would you know results in the higher the changes are that it's responding to is how much water is it is it carrying How deep is it slow and how much sediment is coming through it? So a channel naturally does try to balance those things out and that's really that's what we're seeing happening right now And so we're trying to you know, the goal is to mitigate that erosion so it doesn't continue on the private property Yeah, well, I mean part of the like back like five years ago when I when I first started calling the city about this The What one of the things I told them is that at some point the I guess it was the water department So I don't know who's in charge of what but somebody came back there with like a bobcat type vehicle and Created that one-to-one drop off But when they did that they they made the channel like another two three like another couple few feet wider And like kind of made the problem worse right then But I guess it probably prevented the erosion from getting any worse than it did. I don't know but It kind of feels like they they chipped off more than nature would have to begin with but It's just kind of weird But yeah, I guess my biggest concern is that especially with construction two years out that this just might not be sufficient for To do to fix what y'all are trying to fix Because like it may be too little too late for some I you know, and it's Especially if we get that storm like you're talking about Especially after a summer like we've had I know with the recent storms. It did it did seem to get worse I don't know that it got feet worse, of course it probably just inches but Summers like this that are followed up by crazy, you know, like a hurricane season style torrential but downpour then yeah, I Just don't know that two years out this type of plan is is enough, but I guess we'll see what happens Right and so like I said, you know, you know, we're slating two years for the construction right now With construction to start and hopefully in spring of 2023 But since we don't have a contractor on board at this time, we don't know what that contractor's plan would be As far as which channel this one or the or the other one If it which one they would hit first and we can certainly we'd certainly be working with them to come up with that plan Yeah, as we get someone on board and it could be that they may have two crews and say hey We're just gonna get both done all at once Yeah Go ahead not generally how they're gonna do it They're normally gonna have a lot of times these these contractors will have a crew that they do channels and though They'll also be doing other types of work. You know, maybe they do storm drain work on With a different crew and so usually they just send that crew to one job But but again, we since we don't know who the contractor is because we haven't been this work yet you know, that'd be something would be working with them and You know, we'll have additional community meetings, you know Well, once we have the 90% plans ready we'll have another community meeting and then once we have the contractor on board will have a Pre-construction meeting so before the contractor shows up We'll have a meeting with the contractor on board to kind of talk about how they're planning this out Gotcha. Yeah, when you were talking about earlier how You didn't know which one they would do first I was kind of curious as to why the city would not dictate to them Which one would be done first based on priority mind you that the whatever the other channel is maybe of a higher priority I don't know but Made it sound like the contractor got to choose Yeah, and so there are times when the scene does that that That was specific schedule, but you know some a lot of times things like that will fall under like the contractor's means and methods Uh, you know, they they had the contract to get the project done And if we have a compelling reason to set a particular sequencing then then we can certainly do that Um, I don't know I will watch a symptom time thinking about that as we finish up the design and get it ready for bidding if we need to Put in a specific sequencing That's good to know. I I appreciate that and I'll I'll uh, definitely be at the next meeting as long as they all send out another mailer like this or let me know by email something um, I just yeah, like I said, I just I'm glad y'all are I'm glad we're finally doing something about this but the like I said the plan does make me nervous but You know, I just I just hope somebody's You know, I hope y'all are really like walking down this channel and seeing it with your own eyes because it's it's huge I mean, it's it's ginormous But um, but yeah, thank y'all for at least getting something going on us All right. Thank you Jason for all that and we will be in touch more. We got a few other on the line. Um Let's see another online user So hosea So do you have any questions or want to unmute? You don't have to but if you want to have an opportunity If not, that's okay um Okay, we can Okay, that's great. Uh call in user. I don't know if she was able to See the details there or not or have had any questions Call it shows on the screen is calling user to Uh, do we need to request unmute? No, it shows She's unmuted. He's unmuted. Yeah, but may have Actually muted the phone or something Well, we're available. Anyways, Justin you can There you go Yeah, I'll I'll I'll go ahead and Uh for the benefit of the calling user all I'll go ahead and spell out my my email address Justin dot nailer Last name is spelled in as a Nancy a y l o r At Fort Worth, Texas dot gov and my phone number is 817 392 7953 And so This is the con and I are have already been exchanging emails So, you know, feel free to email me or give me a call If you if you have any questions, you know, after we get off this meeting Oh, no, I wish I would ask that question. You know, we're we're still here. We're available Also, uh, just to remind everyone this is being recorded And it'll be posted On the city website and we'll get the details for that After the recording is processed and we get the recording to put up And That'll allow us to others who didn't have the benefit of being here this evening can Watch it and see the the presentation and of course as Justin mentioned, there will be another meeting Coming up at 90 percent To to give you a further update as the engineering progresses I think that's about it. Justin anything else you want to conclude with I want to thank everybody for coming and being interested in what's going on In your area I appreciate getting to hear all your voices and then and your concerns again reach out if you have any question And I guess with that we'll go ahead and Call this meeting adjourned So thank y'all Thank you everyone for attending and have a good evening