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Hostetler: Two representatives from Public Works are here. Klusczinski: Would you gentlemen like to make a presentation? Durr: Catherine did an excellent job describing the project, but sure. My name is Jason Durr; I'm the Assistant City Engineer. Rob Nichols, also an engineer for the City is here. I recently received a copy of an updated schedule from our consultants; I'd like to pass that out. Turns out when we met last that the schedule was a little ambitious and now we're looking to be the end of Decemberfor construction to be complete. As Catherine mentioned, this is a new sewer that's going underneath the river, just off the Angela bridge near our current existing river crossing. You guys have probably all passed this intersection and Northshore and Angela and seen this concrete structure at the corner here. The new structure will actually go just to the south of it. The existing structures head works can not be utilized nor the tail works due to the size of it and the structural integrity. If we were to start drilling more holes into it, there'd be some concern with that. We're actually intercepting the flow just south of both of those structures providing the ability to also utilize either one of the runs at any time. So they're both going to have the capacity to take on the entire flow, so we can basically put into service the new line and finally do an inspection of the existing line. Right now, it's the only line that crosses the river at this point, and as Catherine mentioned its got 60-70% of the city'sflow low so if this were to fait we'd be in pretty big trouble. We'd have to bypass pump and all kinds of stuff until we could get this fixed. We are using a newer technology with micro -tunneling. The circles that you see here are only the shafts that are going to be 20 ft diameter and about 40 ft deep. These will not be the manhole sizes that you'll see out there, we won't have 20ft manholes, and it will be a standard manhole lid that you'll see. This one actually will probably kicked out a little further so this one might actually be out in the roadway so that we can get a better angle coming into here. We've been talking about that a little more and how to keep it off the bank. Brent Thompson, the forester, we decided, we put in a $10,000 landscaping allowance to replace anything that we might damage, and he seemed to think that amount would be plenty to restore any trees or grass area that we might disturb. One unique situation and one that we have to be very careful of is that there is an aquifer under the river and it is under pressure. We actually have to dewater that aquifer in order to do our micro -tunneling. If we weren't able to dewater it and relieve the pressure, there's a chance that we could blow the aquifer and allow a larger river of water to come up to the surface, so its kind of unique for this situation. You don't think of another river underneath the river but it's there. Chase: Does it go inline with the river? Durr: Pretty close. It's about the same route. It's an artesian aquifer. Ujdak: What's the size of the pipe that you're putting in? Durr: 48 inch. Ujdak: 48? Durr: Yes, and that will be in a casing. Ujdak: Concrete? Durr: Steel probably. Steel casing with either a plastic HDPE piping or something to that effect that would go inside the casing. Ujdak: And the sewer that comes in that it will be connected to, how big is that? Durr: This ends up being a 96... or a 90 and it ends up being a 96 just a little bit further up the road. Ujdak: And the flow is to your right? Durr: No, itflows this direction. Hostetler: To the sewage plant. Durr: It ends up catching the interceptor and then it runs straight up Riverside Drive to the plant. Ujdak: How much of South Bend goes through there? Durr: Well a good portion. Because 60-70% of the flow so, just at Leeper Park there's a crossing'there and that takes a good section of the city comes across and actually comes to 7