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Home My Public Portal AboutRe_ Gulf Stream Renee Basel From:John Zoerhof <jzoerhof@HYPOWERINC.COM> Sent:Monday, March 24, 2014 10:08 AM To:Danny Brannon Subject:Re: Gulf Stream Attachments:IMAG0842.jpg Can you tell me how the bore at the end of north road ended up on the south side of the property line. We are going over this with the surveyor. This shot originates at the south side of the pad to avoid vegetation and an existing service but does stay north of the ROW from that first point. It does not zig zag as shown. Can you tell me how it ended up cutting the corner (if it did). This does not look to be as drastic a cut, however it looks like the crew missed a stake deep in the vegetation almost to the waterway which I assume is the back corner. So they did trim that corner following the waterway which shifts in that direction. Can you tell me how the bore south of hidden harbor along A1A ended up outside the right-of-way. The crew was attempting to curve the feeder directly to the switch. I had directed them to remain east of the right of way south of the switch location. It was a mistake. This will be re-shot from the same position just east of the ROW stakes and west of the comm ducts. Terminating on the NE corner of hidden harbor and will need to be trenched to the switch location. Did you notice that the bore from south road to hidden harbor drive along A1A came up north of the large seagrape tree’s giant roots which we cannot damage. You will now have to tunnel under these roots. Can you explain how we are to install a 4' x 4' switch chamber with 8 entry ducts directly in the root structure of that same tree? This was brought up at the meeting two weeks ago. Is that efficient engineering when supposedly this tree is protected? Is this what you call effective site construction management. There have been issues which are being resolved with respect to expectations. There are many issues to deal with on a daily basis that have been successfully managed with respect to existing utilities, site specific requirements not spelled out in the plans and the same landscaping issues as well John Zoerhof, Hypower, Inc. Sent from my Smartphone, please disregard typos or grammatical errors ----- Reply message ----- From: "Danny Brannon" <DBrannon@BnGEngineers.com> To: "John Zoerhof" <jzoerhof@HYPOWERINC.COM> Subject: Gulf Stream Date: Mon, Mar 24, 2014 8:50 AM 1 Can you tell me how the bore at the end of north road ended up on the south side of the property line. Can you tell me how it ended up cutting the corner (if it did). Can you tell me how the bore south of hidden harbor along A1A ended up outside the right-of-way. Did you notice that the bore from south road to hidden harbor drive along A1A came up north of the large seagrape tree’s giant roots which we cannot damage. You will now have to tunnel under these roots. Is this what you call effective site construction management. Danny P. Brannon, P.E. Brannon & Gillespie, LLC Consulting Engineers 631 US Highway One, Suite 301 North Palm Beach, Florida 33408 Off: (561) 847-4435 Cell: (561) 307-9454 Website: www.BnGEngineers.com From: John Zoerhof \[mailto:jzoerhof@HYPOWERINC.COM\] Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 9:48 AM To: Danny Brannon Subject: RE: Gulf Stream Importance: High Danny, The plan as set at the beginning remains to be the plan. That being a tailgate meeting with the Hypower Site Supervisor at each bore (or any task within the project) prior to commencement of any work with a full understanding of the parameters of that specific task. IE; RWO/Easement Restrictions. Running Line, MOT, Work area access etc. Any issues revealed at that meeting requiring clarification are to be requested from you. To date the Site Supervisor has been reporting directly to you with these issues. However for the purpose of clarity and understanding, moving forward I may require these issues to be submitted to me and then forwarded to you so I can participate and help simplify the process where-ever possible. It appears to me that as the project has progressed complacency to these issues may have set in, that will not be tolerated. All have been notified of my concern and a crew and supervisors meeting has been called on Monday to address all issues with respect to expectations of conduct, safety, property, and work specific issues. All of this being said, I need to re-iterate that we are in the process of installing a large amount of conduits in a limited area and issues with landscaping will occur. This is a construction project with large equipment space requirements. At the Seacrest Property, given that we are installing the feeder, switch chamber, and directing feeder as well as multiple primary conduits into a small space I would expect to have had landscaping issues there in the buffer in any case. And will probably have more when crews arrive tie it all in. HOWEVER, the fact remains that these issues are to be approved and discussed with you for approval PRIOR to any work being done. This has not been happening and will not be tolerated any further. As far as notification to residents, barring this incident, I believe we have been doing that all along. It may be that since this was perceived as work outside the property this address was not notified. We do notify residents when their property is directly affected but not with respect to road/ROW work. Thanks, John Zoerhof Division Manager – Power Services From: Danny Brannon \[mailto:DBrannon@BnGEngineers.com\] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 6:35 PM To: John Zoerhof Subject: Gulf Stream 2 John, It appears to me that you have inadequate onsite supervision. Questions in meetings about the work result in responses such as “I have to ask the crew what they did.” Discussions in the field as to what needs to be done do not seem to be getting communicated to the crews. Work in the field is going badly as crews do not understand what has to be done, and there is inadequate oversight to ensure they do not do the wrong things. The contract calls for the following: Respect for Residents and Their Property: Bidder shall notify and obtain permission from the residents 24 hours in advance when planning to work within the resident's property. In addition, bidder shall notify the resident prior to entering their property to perform work or inspect/ investigate the work site. Bidder shall not block residents driveways unnecessarily. Bidder shall not park equipment on landscaped areas when the vehicle is not needed for the current construction activities. Bidder shall be responsible for repair and/or replacement of all damaged landscaping within 48 hours including repairing vehicle wheel impressions, irrigation systems, lighting systems, structures, or any other items of resident's property. Bidder shall not destroy, damage, remove, or otherwise negatively impact any landscaping within or outside the right-of-way without prior approval from the Engineer. I need to know what your plan is to get this project under control. At this point, I don’t see any management of the crews happening. And I do see a lot of property damage. Danny P. Brannon, P.E. 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