 Good evening everyone and welcome to this community meeting update on the North trunk sewer replacement project located in the shenate and Mendocino area of Santa Rosa. My name is Eric Robert supervising engineer with the city of Santa Rosa transportation and public works department. And I want to thank you for joining us tonight. Before we begin the presentation, I will ask our zoom host Lauren Wiley with the city of Santa Rosa to explain how the meeting will work. Thank you Eric. As members of the public join the meeting you will be participating as an attendee, your microphone and camera will be muted only today's panelists will be viewed during the meeting. If you're calling in from a telephone and choose to speak during the public question and answer portion of today's meeting for privacy concerns. Our co host Mary Lou Nichols will be renaming your viewable phone numbers to resident with the last four digits of your phone number. Please know the city of Santa Rosa is committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment free from disruption. We will not tolerate any hateful speech, or actions and will monitor that everyone is participating respectfully, or they will be removed. If necessary, we will also immediately in the meeting. As zoom host, I will be lowering all raised hands until the question and answer portion of the meeting is open. At the end of the presentation, Eric will open up the meeting for public questions and comments. Once he has called for public questions or comments, Mary Lou will announce for the public to raise their hand if they wish to ask a question or comment related to this presentation. If you are calling in to listen to the meeting by telephone, you can dial star nine to raise your hand. The co host will then call on the public one by one who have their zoom hands raised. Once you have raised your hand and asked your question or shared your input, Mary Lou will lower your hand and mute your microphone so our panelists may respond to your question. Thank you, Lauren. Tonight after introducing introducing our presenters, we will provide a brief overview of the project summarize upcoming construction activities, including what to expect during construction and conclude with your questions and comments. At this time, I would like to introduce tonight's presenters from the city of Santa Rosa transportation and public works department. We have the city's project manager, Greg Dwyer. Tom Gorman, our construction manager with Kennedy drinks will provide a general description of the construction portion of the project. You've already met Lauren, who will host tonight's meeting, along with Mary Lou Nichols, who will be our co host. We will coordinate the questions and answer portion of our meeting. We will start tonight's meeting with an overview of the project, then focus on the projects next step, following by questions and answers. I will now turn the presentation over to Greg Dwyer. Thank you Eric. I'm Greg Dwyer, the city project manager for the North Trump sewer replacement project. I'm very excited to bring you this important construction update and to hear from you. Construction updates are posted on our project website. Sheenate sewer project calm. We can also sign up for email alerts to keep up with the latest information stream bank erosion along pollen Creek has exposed parts of the sewer line over time. The majority of the area of the city sewer collection system is over 50 years old, and was constructed from materials that are no longer in standard use. Due to the age and location of the North trunk sewer alignment inspection and maintenance of the trunk main is challenging and costly. This project will relocate the sewer alignment away from pollen Creek to the road right of way. The water mains and Sheenate road and limitus Avenue will loop existing systems together, improving performance and reducing maintenance costs. Next slide please. Our contractor team July has been potholing to accurately determine the location underground utilities in preparation for upcoming construction work. The highlighted areas on the screen show the locations where sewer replacement work will take place. The blue areas represent water main replacement work. Okay, the meat is Lane. In portions of the meat is Avenue and Sheenate road will receive new sewer and water mains. Next slide please. You may recall call from our initial public outreach meeting that the project will be built in stages with both traditional open trench and trenchless construction technology. For those of you that missed the meeting, or would like to watch it again. I encourage you to visit the project website Sheenate sewer project calm and select the link. The next phase of the project will involve open trench construction. This is what you may have seen throughout the city. The level and duration of noise and dust will increase during this phase. Trenching will be covered with steel plates at the end of each workday. You will still be permitted access to your residences, but please drive carefully through the constructs through the construction zone for the overall safety and protection of the workers. At this point, I would like to hand it over to our construction manager, Tom Gorman with Kennedy Jenks, who will review the upcoming plan construction phasing. Many thanks Greg. Good evening everyone my name is Tom Gorman and the construction manager on the project is a brief snapshot and where we are with construction at this time. Next slide please. The next phase is almost complete. The work items performed to date include locating and identifying existing utilities along the proposed water and sewer alignments. Performing a survey and staking for the layout of the new sewer and water utilities along the alignments and pot hole into establish and confirm the location of the existing utilities. To identify any potential conflicts along the new alignment that needs to be addressed prior to the upcoming open trench excavation and underground boring and drilling operations. Next slide please. Some conditions to take into consideration as we move into the next phase of construction. Parking and construction areas will be temporarily affected. No parking signs will be installed and posted in advance within the immediate footprint of the pending work areas. No garbage pickup mail delivery will not be impacted. The contractor will make arrangements with the noted services to enable them to perform their work on on their regular schedules. There will be noise during construction hours, which are ordinary from 7am to 7pm Monday through Friday, and then depending on the specific work items, some work may occur outside these hours, and on Saturdays. Some updates will be provided to the community for work outside of regular work hours and work days. Continue to check the project website or the email broadcast for specific updates. There will be plans nighttime work at the intersection of Mendocino and chenate from 10pm to 6am. And we have some slides coming up showing this in the proposed sequence of work. This particular operation will include traffic detours for eastbound and westbound chenate. Looking a little further ahead into the schedule, there will be planned nighttime work also happening on Mendocino Avenue during the September and October timeframe. Next slide please. Over the next several slides I'll be highlighting the sequencing timelines and anticipate the durations of the work areas planned for the next couple of months. For the current draft schedule. This information has been shared based on what we know at this time. As with many projects, a particularly complicated construction projects in active city streets, the proposed schedule is subject to change based upon several factors. There could be impacts due to unknown or unforeseen subsurface conditions as we get into trenching. Adverse weather conditions were still in the wet weather period. Other party permits in requirements such as Kalosha for the safety of the trenches and the boring operations and the California Department Fish and Wildlife for the work that's inside of pollen Creek. Unforeseen events such as natural environmental issues. There's always potential disruption as well for the material supply chain due to the current COVID-19. Events happen quicker than anticipated which is a good thing but they are completed ahead of time and ahead of schedule, which of course also impacts the schedule. So we have to work through those and continue to update and upgrade the schedule. As noted earlier that we frequent updates provided to the community by the outreach coordinators related to schedule and other notifications relevant to the project. Website and email broadcasts for the latest information. We've done in mind we're now looking to what to expect in several months for participants with access to a screen across reference, the red rectangular boxes highlighted in the proposed work zones being discussed in each specific slide. I highlighted on the graphics. Alameda's Avenue, Alameda's Lane. Construction for the new water main and water services is anticipated to commence from February 22 through March 17. Local single traffic control measures will be in place. This work will result in temporary interruptions to the water service. Advanced notices will be posted at residences affected by the outages. Depending on the complexity of the main line times and crossovers. The water may be out of service for four hours on the main line work and approximately for an hour each or so on the individual meter service switch always. Next slide please. Next slide please. On Mendocino Avenue at the intersection of Shinate. Nighttime workers anticipated to commence for the temporary service. Construction for the new water main is anticipated to commence from March 18 through March 23. Again, local traffic slender lane traffic controls will be in place for this work front and advanced notices will be posted at the residences affected by the water service outages. Next slide please. On Mendocino Avenue at the intersection of Shinate. Nighttime workers anticipated to commence for the temporary sewer tie in between the evening of Tuesday, March 16 through the evening of Thursday, March 18 from 10pm through 6am. This particular work operation will require temporary lane change for northbound Mendocino traffic and a road closure at Shinate, implementing a detour of east and westbound through traffic along Shinate traffic will be directed along Lewis and Alameda's Avenue. Night work is also anticipated to be formed during this period within the business center driveway located between 2604 and 2632 Mendocino Avenue. That's the bakery and the bail bonds businesses. Details and notifications will be provided close to the time of this actual work day. Next slide please. Nighttime work excavations for the ramming pits and pipe ramming operation, also known as the trenches technology will be implemented on Shinate at the Pauline Creek crossing workers anticipated to commence from March 19 through April 8. This particular portion of the operation will introduce new traffic control measures requiring temporary lane changes to the westbound left, right and through traffic patterns at Mendocino Avenue. The lanes will be narrowed down to a single westbound lane, allowing for turns and through traffic to establish and realign the eastbound lane and so accommodate the construction work footprint. This configuration will also limit the ability to make left turns into and out of Pete's coffee driveway, as well as the adjacent school driveway. On the south side of the section this configuration will limit the ability to make left turns into and out of the credit union and pool supply commercial driveway. Please make an alternate arrangements if you need to access the businesses of these locations, anticipate longer lines and travel times, and if at all possible use alternate routes or staggered your journey times. Next slide please. On Plum Drive and La Mita's Avenue construction for the new sewer installation as anticipated to commence from March 24 through March 29 on Plum Drive and from March 30 through April 27 on La Mita's Avenue. Again, local single lane traffic control measures will be in place in these work fronts. Next slide please. The conclusion of the trenchless technology work at Pauling Creek will result in the start of the installation of the new sewer main on Chinate from Mendocino Avenue to La Mita's Avenue and La Mita's Lane. Instruction for this segment is anticipated to commence from April 9 through April 19. Again, if at all possible, please use alternate routes or stagger your journey times. As for the remaining segments of the alignment, the private driveways on La Mita, the work on Chinate from La Mita's Avenue up through Terralinda, these areas and timelines will be covered in a subsequent presentations as the production schedule evolves and the dates become more evident. The closer we are to the actual time of the event, the more accurate we will be to establish and predict future dates. Next slide please. To summarize some of the initial talking points, the project will be completed in stages to minimize disruptions throughout the duration of the work. Travel lanes will be stored outside of working hours wherever possible. This will be assessed on a continual basis throughout the duration of the construction. The questions and bicyclists will be accommodated throughout the project while maintaining both the safety of the bicyclists and pedestrians and the safety of the work crews. Signage and in many instances, flaggers will guide traffic through the work area. Advanced warnings will be posted. These are dear to any and all instructions provided to traverse through the work cell and safely, as conditions and situations can and do change on a regular basis. Continuities for emergencies have been considered. As with most construction projects, emergency and first responders will be provided with priority access and will be kept appraised of traffic related impacts. As we move closer to the dry weather months, special coordination and attention will be paid to emergency services with respect to evacuation routes. This concludes the construction update for now. Many thanks in advance for your patience and consideration during the next several months as we make further progress on the project. Thank you Tom. Back to Eric to continue to meet an agenda. Thank you Tom. A quick reminder regarding schedule as Tom mentioned, there are many factors that can impact the project schedule including inclement weather and unanticipated subsurface conditions. The dates presented are currently our best estimate. We will continue to provide schedule updates through future meetings, the project website, and our weekly email updates. Next time we'd like to hear public input. So next we will move to the question and answer portion of the meeting. However, before we begin joining our presenters, Greg and Tom to field your questions and comments, I would like to introduce Sean Durandberger with Team Jalati, the Project General Contractor, and Mike Van Mitty, traffic engineer with the city of Santa Rosa. I'm going to ask our host Lauren to review how the public can participate by asking live questions and comments. Thank you Eric. Once the facilitator has called for public questions or comments, our co-host Mary Lou will announce for anyone wishing to ask a question or comment to raise their hand and zoom. For individuals wishing to participate in the meeting by telephone, you can dial star nine to raise your hand. The co-host will then call in the public one by one who have their zoom hand raised. The co-host will unmute your microphones you may ask your question. Once you have raised your hand and asked your question or shared your input your hand will be lowered and your microphone muted so our panelists may respond to your question. Mary Lou, are you ready for the first question. First meeting attendee to ask their question or provide comment. Yes, we are. Thank you Eric. Anyone wishing to ask a question or make a comment may do so at this time by raising your hand and zoom. If you're calling in please dial star nine to raise your hand. Okay, I see our first person with a raised hand is Sonia Taylor. Sonia, I've enabled your speaking permissions. Please state your full name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment or question. My name is Sonia Taylor and it's a giant surprise that I'm the first person to ask a question. My question, first of all, thank you for doing this. It's very helpful to have some idea when we are all going to be disrupted by the project. And the second, my question is, will the presentation that you just showed be available on the website soon. So that we don't have to refer to the notes that I took that I can't read. Thank you Sonia. I think that a copy of the presentation will be posted on the website. I think within the next week. That's correct Eric. It will be available next week. Do we have any other questions at this time. I'm seeing a hand raised from Lynn Brown. Lynn. Oops, one moment. I'll just promote you to panelists while you're asking your question because you have an older version of zoom. So when I promote you, it'll look like you may have been disconnected from the meeting, but within a few seconds the connection will resume and you will become a panelist and you may offer your comment at that time. This is Lynn Brown, and my question is that we have had little tiny flags put in our, in our front yard and I'm when with by the people who have been working in the street. I'm wondering if it's possible to tell me what those might be for. Thank you and Greg, could you answer Lynn's question. Sure. I don't believe those are involved with our project at all. And I think, unless Tom Gorman, do you have any idea what she may be talking about of course we would need to know where they were. But we haven't put any flags in anybody's lawns. Yeah, Lynn, if you if you don't want to divulge your address on the air that's fine. If you want to contact one of us after the meeting will be happy to take a look at your address location. But ordinarily when when flags are installed in people's front yards, it's delineating the underground services that are in there to alert the contractors, or the utility agency that's coming behind the location of the underground utility on your property from the from the street to the house itself. So ordinarily it would be gas or water sewer line or something like that. For this project will be two lines or narrow enough the water lines but again until we know your exact location can identify whether it's part of this project or another project. Another utility. Are there any other questions at this time. Eric I see no hands raised. Oh wait now we have one, one moment. Our next speaker is joys galaxy joy. I have enabled your speaking permissions. Please state your name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment or question. Hi, I'm sorry. Yes. Oh hi. I just wanted to ask with the job. This big that you guys have done before. What are like maybe the top three issues that you guys have experienced with this kind of job that you guys done before in residential area. Thank you joy. Great. Can you feel that question for joy. Yes, thank you Eric. I would say the top issues are our noise. Dast and traffic control impacts. Those, those tend to be the biggest issues that we have doing construction projects in a neighborhood. This one in particular because there is some night work. And we know that will impact some residences a lot more than others. And also a major thoroughfare. So there's a lot of traffic, which is why we, we put together such a comprehensive traffic control plan to mitigate any traffic impacts that may, may result. Does that answer your question or. I'm sorry, can you hear me. There you go. Um, yes. Okay, just gives me a good, good idea. I just think also about my cats we have a, you have a good amount of cats on the music lane. And just thinking that you know the animals might be a little scared with all the happenings in our street. It will be, it will be louder. And you should expect that and mitigate that it's, it's going to be loud and dusty. So we, we apologize and, and appreciate your patients during this as we get through it and provide these important water and sewer improvements to your neighborhood. Thank you. Our next speaker is Nathan Odell. Nathan, I've enabled your speaking permissions. Please state your name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment or question. Hi, this is Nathan Odell. I am located on Lomitas. I have a couple of questions. One, I wanted to touch on the overall schedule. You say the beginning of the presentation, February 22nd is beginning to install the water main on Lomitas. That is complete. What else will be installed along Lomitas? And is there a timeframe for that in the future? And then what type of noise can we expect from the underground tunneling or pipe installation? Thank you, Nathan. Tom, do you want to feel that that question? I will. Yeah, Nathan. Yes, correct. The first order of work on Lomitas will be the water line. That will be followed after by the sewer line, the new sewer line that's going in there. We're working on the timelines for that too. And that will be in a future presentation, but that will be the next phase of work. And then once that is completed, there will be a final phase at the very end and that will be a whole surface restoration and striping of the Lomitas lane and Lomitas Avenue surfaces. With regards to noise, ordinarily for open trench, it would be saw cutting for the line lanes for the excavation that's going to get removed. The backhoe and excavators will be noisy. Generally, the compaction test, the compaction of the new backfill over the pipes in the trench again, requires a compacting machine or a sheep's foot on an excavator. And that's a noise generating. And then when we come to the pavement again, we're coming off from the bottom to back to surface again. And when it comes to paving, there'll be some maybe potential grind out as a grinding machine. And then the pavement operation is usually not as noisy, a little bit of dust. That's what we've got for the candy installation for the open trench for the pits and the boring. There'll be noise from the excavation of the vertical shafts, whether it's a drilling rig or an excavator itself. And down in the pit, there's a boring machine or a ramming machine, there's the potential for noise to come out there, but because it's down below subgrade and someone says it's 20 feet, 20 or 30 feet. That could be muffled, if you will, and not as pronounced. So this one is kind of the typical operations that we have. We have Sean on the line two from the contractor. I'm happy to show him he's got anything to elaborate on that, or if he's in the insight that's going to be useful for the team. I think the only thing I would add is, you know, usually the most difficult part for people is the backup beepers. And I just ask everybody to understand that by law we have to have those on and working on all of our machines. And I know that noise will drive you crazy but just please understand that at no point can I disconnect it, or have a machine running with that or else we'll have serious issues with OSHA. I think that's the only thing I would add. Thanks Sean. Nathan, does that answer the question. Yeah, thank you. It was mainly the nighttime noise for the underground tunneling, just wondering what kind of impact that was going to have. I'm right on the corner of Lomitas and Sinead so whatever noise is there I'm going to get from both sides. Yeah, my understanding is that's not nighttime work or all of the, the only nighttime work is going to be a tie in at Minasino and Sinead, and that's for a sewer line and that's just open, that's open trench. And there'll be some trenching in the businesses. I'd be able to get extension of a Lomitas lane onto Minasino Avenue. The old work is generally unless there's something that's going to be completely out of sequence or out of whack or the reason for the nighttime work will all be joined today. So it'll be all daytime operation. Thank you. Our next speaker is Bill Dornbush, followed by Sonya Taylor. Bill, I've enabled your speaking permissions, please state your name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment or question. Hi, this is Bill Dornbush. How and when will you provide us with future updates on the project. Thank you, Bill. I hope you're a you've subscribed to our weekly email updates. If you haven't, you can do so by going to to our website. We also have updates on the website itself. And in addition, as major phases of construction begin, we will have similar type meetings to these to update people as we go through the process. Great. Do you have anything else to add? No, I just thank you, Eric. And Bill, I just encourage you, like Eric said, to sign up for the website. As soon as we get the latest information or something changes, we do it on the website. And that's the best place to go and a real convenient thing if you don't happen to check the website and it gets updated is to go ahead and sign up for those alerts. And that way you won't miss anything. Okay. Our next speaker is Sonya. You may build your speaking permissions. You may provide your question or comment. I'm back. A couple of questions about the work on the meat is lane tentatively scheduled for the 22nd of February 3rd through the 17th of March. Number one, I presume we're still going to be able to get in and out of our driveways, even though we were there. I'm also presuming there'll be no parking along the street. My question is, temporary interruption to water of four hours or up to four hours and then I get additionally another hour. Are we going to have. I'm presuming I'll let us know when this is going to happen in advance. And that's what I'd like to confirm. And then for the night work at the corner of Mendocino and chenate, that's going to overlap it looks at least a little bit with the day work on the meat is laying. And if it becomes intolerable I presume that you will talk to us about hotel rooms or something like that. Those are my questions at the moment. Additional one. Thank you. Thank you, Sonya. I'll start with some of the answers to those questions. Sure. Thank you, Eric. Sonya you will be allowed access to your residents at all times. So there'll be people there staff to make sure to guide you through the constructions on if needed to get you to your residents. There will be times where there is day and night work and we realize that the noise will, there will be impacts to certain residents is greater than others. As far as hotels and such. If anybody is having really adverse reactions and would like something like a hotel or, or, or another remedy of to please contact our hotline, and we'll work with you individually to to try to meet your needs. You, you may have had another question. I'm trying to. I thought the water interrupts. Yeah. So with the water, it, I don't believe it's going to be four hours. I think your, your, your interruptions will be more along the line of 30 minutes or so. You will be notified well in advance. Your staff will, will knock on residents's doors to give you a heads up and they'll tell you as soon as they're done. So that way you know that you're not wondering if you're when or when your water is going to get returned, your service. Thank you. We have another speaker. Hi, my name is Joe Kote. I live on Strawberry Drive. And we had to recently attract. I have enabled your speaking permissions. Please state your full name for the record. If you so choose and provide your comment or question. This person is having a hard time on muting. A truck with a compressor and jackhammer. I know I was wondering. If there are any jackhammers that are a little less noisy, like what this company has, you know, like whisper jackhammer. I'm just asking the question, you know, if somebody can answer it, you know, would appreciate it. Thank you. Tom, can you take a shot at Joe's question? I can yeah there are various makes of the compressor whisper quiet as you say that is that is part of it and the other part of it is the actual impact with the, whether it's the points or the spade that gives us the noise to I don't know what Sean's inventory looks like, but I will circle back around with Sean and see unless he wants to add something to the conversation here to see if they do have something along those lines in their inventory. I can go ahead and check for you and find out I don't know off the top of my head. You know, I know our equipment's relatively new so I'd have to check with dispatch and see what we have. And I guess the good news would be I think we're, we should be done with strawberry. I think they're done pot hole and so, you know, basically the next time we would come in there is when we're ready to do sewer work and, and I'll make a note to check with my crew and see if there is a wider compressor. Great thanks Sean. At the moment I see no other hands do we have any other questions. Eric I see no hands up with no further questions. I'd like to express my appreciation and thank members of the public and all the panelists and hosts for participating tonight. I appreciate you taking the time to listen to us and provide your input. I want to remind everyone that we have a special web page for this project www.shanate sewer project.com, where you can find information on construction progress and status. To get more information on the project, I encourage you to subscribe to receive construction updates by logging on to www.shanatesewerproject.com and clicking the subscribe button. Thank you again, and good night.