April 29, 2021 at 8:30 AM - Operations Committee Meeting

Rationale:  We have no unfinished business.

Rationale:  Scott Luedtke with Game & Parks Commission has put together an agreement (attached) between the NRD and G & P for a grant through the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Program in which we will eliminate volunteer/invasive trees on the wildlife areas of Lake Wanahoo. The grant and/or expense is not to exceed $20,000 of which 75% is covered by Game & Parks and 25% the NRD. Also attached is the bid document for contractors.
The District will advertise in a newspaper for 3 weeks, bids are due May 31st and work to be completed by October 31, 2021 and follow up treatment by June 30, 2022.

Rationale:  The O & M crew has packaged trees and delivered them and have started planting. We continue to monitor beaver problems on two Cottonwood dams. Regular vehicle maintenance.

Rationale:  The Nebraska Army National Guard are doing multiple projects with the Guard Camp. They are trying to de-water the area around Turner Lake which is supposed to drain through the levee into the Salt Creek Floodway to the Platte River (see attachment). Water cannot drain from the lake to the river for two reasons, 1) the outlet culvert is at elevation 1052.88.  2) the fill in the floodway is at elevation 1056.5.
In the process of refurbishing the floodway, the COE and/or Contractor missed that the channel from the Turner Lake culvert should not be filled. The question is being asked if the Turner Lake culvert was placed at the wrong elevation when the old CMP was replaced a number of years ago. The average annual Platte River flow elevation is between 1054-55 therefore river water/silt would be backing up the Turner channel most of the time.
The Corps is researching the hydraulics within the floodway to determine how much fill will be taken out and hope to have the contractor back here very soon.
At the same time, the contractor will also complete an area of fence that was not closed in at the major breach location north of Co. Rd F. After the fact we found out the neighbor grazes the property next to the levee, so we need a continuous fence.

Rationale:  The Wanahoo lake level has been kept below the weir giving Valley Corp. the opportunity to work in the basin. Valley is attempting to de-water the basin and have started welding the framework to the sheet pile for the brackets, progress is slow. Valley Corp worked on constructing the gabion basket mounting brackets in their shop, began constructing baffle rebar and formwork. When the stilling basin was pumped down, several chunks of concrete were seen sitting on the concrete basin apron. Upon further investigation it was found that the concrete was from the apron of which scouring had developed at the north central end of the apron near the flip bucket outlet structure. FYRA will document the location of the scour hole and add it to the As-Built plans. The District can also make a request FEMA in making a repair to this damage. FYRA will develop a fix and cost estimate.

The most current invoice from FYRA is attached. There is $7,574.38 remaining on the contract.
The original bid was to be substantially complete by late February and completely done by 31 May.  Given rate of work to date, the end of May is going to be a stretch to get all the work done.
This prolonged schedule and all the coordination/discussion work that took place while nothing was being completed in the field has the engineering budget stretched.
At Eric Suing's rate, there is about 68 hours of his time left on the contract.
As you will also see on this invoice, we documented time spent on the change in design to deal w/ the concrete lip on the RCC apron edge.  That totaled $6,138.75 and is shown on page 2, this has already been paid.
If we added that out of scope amount to what is remaining, we are at $13,713.13.  That still doesn’t quite get us to full time on site this month. 
With the work ahead of us, watching for boils and directing the future underwater work seems critical.
If Valley Corp will be done by 31 May, we will need not only the current out of scope work ($6,138.75) added back into the contract, but perhaps another $12k or so equaling $18,138.75.   This would get us to 40 hours per week for Eric, and Mike for the next five weeks.  That would at least get us to 31 May.

 

Rationale:  The O & M Manual is not complete for the Western Sarpy Clear Creek Levee. The Papio-Missouri NRD is pushing to have the manual completed and anything on the project that is not complete will be put into the Manual as an addendum. Our District's stance is, since it has taken so long to get this far we would rather have it completed without addendums.
The possible addendums would be for the area of the levee within the Guard Camp being upgraded and is at 90% completion, any environmental components on either side of the river, and potentially the current changes within the Salt Creek Floodway.

Rationale:  The District has purchased 11,775 conservation trees and we have 12 sites to plant. The Arbor Day Trees have been distributed to Fremont Eco-Fair 475, Newman Grove School 35, North Bend Elementary 45, and Conservation Sensation will use 220.

Rationale:  Hay bids for the recreation areas were due Wednesday, April 28th at 4:00 p.m. Bids were opened during Committee meeting.
See the attached spreadsheet.

Rationale:  We haven't had any request or applications.

Rationale:  For the month of April, as of 4/28, the District has recieved $11,927.50 in annual park permit revenue. Year to date revenue totals $46,837.50. The year by year breakdown for the month of April is listed below.
 

Month	Monthly Total	YTD Total
April 2021	11,927.50	46,837.50
April 2020	10,390.00	37,932.50
April 2019	10,407.50	39,497.50

Rationale:  For the month of April the District has received $2,503 in camping revenue. The YTD camping revenue total is $26,410.57.

Rationale:  During the month of April, the building was rented 22 times. This number includes 1 NRD/NRD-involved meetings, and 9 youth events. Revenue for month of April $1,140

Rationale:  As we are finalizing our reimbursement request to NRDF, there will be available funding under our current approval.  Staff has requested bids for a sprinkler system for the area around the building with the intention of receiving 60% cost-share reimbursement on the work.  Bids received by Wednesday 4-28-21 are attached.

Rationale:  April's KTIC ad and Wahoo Newspaper e-ad are attached. We featured all three recreation areas this month.

Rationale: 

• April 1st Coffee Lakeside: April Gardening Activities.
  • We had 6 attendees, and the conversation went really well.
• Field trips
  • April 21st: Wahoo 1st graders; 68 kids; 9-2:30.
  • April 22nd: St. Wenceslaus Pre-K; 22 kids; 11-1:45.
  • April 23rd: St. Wenceslaus 4-6th; 111 kids; 9-2:30
  • April 26th: St. Wenceslaus Pre-K; 23 kids; 9-11:45
  • April 27th: St. Wenceslaus K-3; 142 kids; 9-2:30
  • Stations included: nature hike, disc golf, fishing, crafting nature journals, hunger games, free exploration time, kickball, and a pontoon ride with David Ruder of Live Well Go Fish.
• April 26th: John Miyoshi presented to our 8th grade survival club on all things fishing.
• May 5th: 30th annual Spring Conservation Sensation
• May 6th: Coffee, Lakeside: Migratory Bird Month with Paula Hoppe.
• May 12th: Field trip for Wahoo 3rd graders (80 kids)
• May 20th: Wahoo head start Lake Day 
• May 28th: Outdoor Recreation Day
• June 1st: Kids summer institute--Disc Golf
• June 2nd: UNL Herpetology Day
• June 3rd: Coffee, Lakeside, Fishes of Nebraska with Mike Luben
• June 4th: National Trails Day: Grand Opening of our new trails
• June 8th: Kids summer institute: Friendship rocks
• June 9th: Kids summer institute Water wonders and Nature Hike
• June 11th: Ag Tour
• June 24th: Drive in Movie Night at the Lake for 151 Celebration
• June 27th: Family shore fishing tournament and kayak scavenger hunt (151 Celebration).

Rationale:  Routine monthly sampling completed, meters read and bills finalized.

Rationale:  Waste Connection's new 2 inch service line is nearly completed; we are waiting on our backflow prevention device that has been on back-order, but is supposed to ship 4/29.
Routine monthly sampling completed, meters read and bills finalized.