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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY MITIGATION REEF PROJECT TECHNICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIFICATIONS Subscription price and ordering information is available from the National Climatic Data Center, 151 Patton Ave . Customer Services Branch , Asheville , NC 22802 . This publication gives hourly wind speed and direction observations . The NOAA annual summary gives a summary of the observations for the period of record . Access to this information can be made through the NOAA website (www. ndbc. noaa . gov). 30 .2 United States Coast Pilot Atlantic Coast . Cape Henry to Key West - Published by NOAA. For sale by the National Ocean Service and its agents . 30 . 3 Summary of Synoptic Meteorological Observations . North American Coastal Marine Areas , Atlantic and Gulf Coasts - Produced by the Naval Weather Service , U . S . Department of Commerce . Distributed by the National Technical Information Service , U . S . Department of Commerce . 30 .4 Wave Hindcast Data. Wave Information Studies of U . S . Coastlines , Hindcast Wave Information for the U . S . Atlantic Coast is available at the Corps of Engineers , Jacksonville District Office , produced by the U . S . Army Corps of Engineers , Waterways Experiment Station , Coastal Engineering Research Center, Wave Information Study (WIS ) station 16 reflects twenty (20 ) years of computer modeled wave data (from 1975 to 1995 ) . The station is located approximately 22 miles east of Indian River County at 27 . 75 N 80 . 00 W in approximately 148 feet of water. It is noted that these data do not include the effects of tropical storms and hurricanes . Ref: Hindcast Wave Information for U. S. Atlantic Coast, WIS Report 30, U . S . Army Waterways Experiment Station , Vicksburg , Mississippi . 30 . 5 Daily marine weather forecast . May be obtained from the internet at: http ://www. nws . noaa . gov/om/marine/home . htm 30 . 6 Safe Refuge. The CONTRACTOR is responsible for seeking adequate shelter from adverse weather conditions . The nearest sheltered harbor is the Port of Fort Pierce (also referred to as Fort Pierce Inlet) which is located approximately 11 nautical miles south of the center of the Mitigation Area . 30 . 7 Weather delays . In addition to definitions for rain delays as specified by the FDOT Standard Specifications , weather delays are defined , for marine purposes , as any day in which the NOAA 10 : 30 AM daily forecast, issued by the official NOAA weather radio stations and the world wide web address given in Section 30 . 5 of these Technical and Environmental Specifications , includes a Small Craft Caution or Small Craft Warning or a forecast of seas 3 to 5 feet or greater. Small Craft Caution or Small Craft Warning or a forecast of seas 3 to 5 feet or greater shall be evaluated on a case- by-case basis by the CONTRACTOR and the COUNTY. The CONTRACTOR and the COUNTY shall jointly agree on the propriety of operations under any set of conditions with the CONTRACTOR recognizing the desire of the COUNTY to complete the project in a timely manner and the COUNTY recognizing the ultimate responsibility for the safe conduct of the CONTRACTOR ' S tug , barge (s) , and • crew at sea resting with the captain of the tug . Time extensions for delays due to inclement weather, including adverse sea conditions , shall be granted if the TS-24