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EC 5 1999 BOOK t8 PAVE 555 UPDATED REPORT ON BRIDGE REPAIRS & EMERGENCY CONTRACT Administrator Chandler informed the Board that on Friday, he authorized an emergency contract with Knight & Mathis for repairs on the 4 bridges in question. This would involve steel braces at a unit cost of $348 per brace. If we had to replace all 4 piles on all of the bridges, it would be in the neighborhood of $31,000 for material costs, but he did not anticipate needing repairs on all the braces on all 4 bridges. He continued that the City of Vero Beach just let a contract on a bridge in town at a very good unit price, and Director Davis is going to get with their contractor to talk about the bridges we are looking'At and get a unit cost if, in fact, we want to consider replacing those 4 bridges. Administrator Chandler did feel, however, that we should continue with the repairs we started yesterday on Lateral HJ 11 Commissioner Scurlock believed that one of the concerns the citrus industry has is that with these repairs, we will try to draw down the water level in the canals, and this is a peak irrigation time for them. Public Works Director Davis reported that he had a meeting yesterday with the chairman of the Indian River Farms Drainage District and some others. They do want to maintain the water levels as high as possible both for freeze protection and irrigation, and this hampered our ability to get under the bridges and assess some of the corrosion. Commissioner Scurlock requested, if nothing else, that before we dump all the water, we look at the weather forecast and be sure to cooperate with the Drainage District. Chairman Wheeler agreed, noting that we have multi million dollar citrus crops, and they need water to prevent freezing. He complimented Administrator Chandler and Director Davis with the way they took control and handled this emergency situation. Administrator Chandler thanked him but noted that we had 50