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Repair of the Second Two Spurs: July 31- August 5
Summary
July 31, 1999
Thirty-two
cubic yards of concrete was shipped out to the
barge via the landing craft. Tremie pours were
conducted on both July 31 and August 1 on Site "E."
With the remaining boulders being placed to grade
on the site. An unavoidable "blowout" of concrete
occurred through an unseen opening in the sediment,
this spilled a small amount of tremie concrete into
the adjacent sand channel. Cleanup of this will
take place after completion of the restoration
work.
August
1, 1999
The
Kane Film and Video LLC film crew contracted to
NOAA starts filming restoration work. Water clarity
and visibility was extremely good, waves were calm.
The team finished several tremie pours and placed
most of the surface dressing or topping boulders on
Site "E". Click
here to see recent images from the restoration
site.
August
3, 1999
Thunderstorms,
lightning and high winds forced the barge to pull
off the site and retreat to the storm anchor
mid-day. One of the mooring points was damaged and
will have to be replaced.
August
4, 1999
The
project team located and placed a new mooring point
for the barge and also located and placed a mooring
point for the inspection boats on site. The barge
remains on the storm anchor. The rest of the
project team returned to shore to catch up on
paperwork and get supplies.
August
5, 1999
The
barge moved off the storm anchor and into Key West
(Stock Island) to pick up more concrete and other
supplies and to ride out the weather. The team is
expected to move back on site tomorrow.
Worksite
Images
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View
of the Team Land Development Inc. barge at
the Stock Island (Key West) mooring site,
loaded with boulders and "chinking
stones".
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Rebar
lattice and boulders at repair site prior
to concrete pour.
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Fresh
tremie concrete pour at site
"E".
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Repair
site "F" after final surface dressing.
Note some filamentous algal covering the
surface dressing, and returning
fish.
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Overview
of site "E" from the contractor's barge.
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A
multi-lobed colony of Siderastrea
siderea transplanted directly onto
site "A".
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