May 31, 2018 at 9:30 AM - Projects Committee Meeting

Rationale:  No unfinished business to address.

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Rationale:  Cameron Birkel - Tree planting/spraying         $332.45

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Rationale:  Attached is a $70,034.33 payment request from Kohl Construction for retainage on the Kramer Project and for work completed on the Hamata Project (which was an approved change order on the Kramer Project).  Because this completed work falls under an approved contact and contact change order, no Board motion is required. 

Since Committee Meeting we have received an interlocal agreement that will need to be approve and authorize Chairman to sign said agreement.  A Board motion will be needed.

Rationale:  Ken Kotera has been working on a final design and Mr. Sprunk has contacted the USACE about a 404 permit. 

Rationale:  The Shell Creek press conference and celebration will be held Friday, June 15 at  to announce the removal of Shell Creek from the List of Impaired Waters due to contamination by Atrazine. This is the first time in history for a successful delisting of a stream for Atrazine contamination resulting from the implementation of a comprehensive watershed management plan. The press conference will be held streamside at 10:30 a.m., followed by a celebration picnic at the Mark Horejsi Farm (951 RD H, Schuyler, NE) starting at 11:00 a.m.

Rationale:  The USACE has performed an interim accounting of the design and implementation phase of the Shell Creek Levee Project and is issuing a $28,000 refund as attached.  LPNNRD contributed equally with Schuyler during the Shell Creek Levee design phase, but we then required Schuyler to take the project lead during the construction phase.  Schuyler provided a total of $2,547,307.50 (cash & in-kind)  during the design and implementation phase and LPNNRD provided $322,000 (cash and in-kind) to USACE.  In addition, LPNNRD paid Schuyler $600,000 over a five year period toward construction costs.

 

Rationale:  On May 22nd, Mountford along with Directors Meduna, Ruzicka and Feala accompanied Mike Sotak & Connor Kelly, FYRA, at the Saunders County Supervisors Meeting to update them on Wahoo Creek dam sites 26 & 27 and on progress being made with siting Wahoo Creek Floodwater reduction dams.  The supervisors were urged to give input on siting future dams and discuss making a funding commitment toward sites 26 & 27 based on county bridge benefits. Mountford reported that he and Elliot will meet with the Saunders County Zoning Board on June 4 to discuss our desire for future zoning restrictions on inhabitable dwellings within the breach inundation areas below future dams.  

Mike Sotak and Janel Kaufman gave the committee an updated presentation and asked for input on preliminary dam site locations that will be presented at the June 12, 2018 Public Scoping Meeting.

Attached is FYRA's $11,962.50 May 23 invoice for work completed on Wahoo Creek Planning.  After this payment, $514,961.42 will remain on our $574,990 contract.  Since the work was completed under a Board approved contract, no motion is required for payment.

Rationale:  We are working with FYRA Engineering to set up an agency and public scoping meetings to discuss our proposed floodwater reduction dams in the Wahoo Creek Watershed.  The agency meeting will be from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm on Tuesday June 12th following by a public scoping meeting from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm.  Both meeting will be held at Union Bank in Wahoo.  Besides sending out a press release and public notice, we have mailed 84 letters to people residing in the Wahoo Creek Watershed and another 14 letters to agency partners. 

Rationale:  Work was completed this spring to treat gully erosion affecting the auxiliary spillway at the Sand Creek Upstream Site 16 adjacent to the Rudie Nemec farm for a total cost of $17,666.60.  NRD budgeted $20,000.00 for this current project and the work that was completed last year at the Stevens-Smid farm which is on the south side of Site 16. The Stevens-Smid project came in at $2521.60.  Total for the two projects is $20,188.20.
The work completed on the Nemec farm exceeded costs due to contractor overbuilding structures to benefit farmability.

Rationale:  While LPNNRD is no longer a member of the Alliance, we are committed to Leshara water quality monitoring, complete a watershed water quality plan and a few smaller items that are under the alliance umbrella.  We already made this fiscal year's payment for the water quality monitoring at Leshara, and are being invoiced for our share of completing the EPA/NDEQWatershed Water Quality Plan as attached.  Completion of this plan will add most of the remaining eastern 1/3 of our District to be covered by a Water Quality Plan.  This opens the door for federal and state grant money to help accomplish conservation practices in this additional area. 

Rationale:  No new updates.

Rationale:  Rodney Juleson - Boone Co. - 23.1ac         $5,197.50  

Payment will be made in October

Rationale:  With no further business, the Projects Committee Adjourned at 11:01 a.m.