January 10, 2020. Lafayette, LA–Dredge the Vermilion (DTV) Board Advisor Pam Granger PE reports she met with Lafayette Parish Public Works Department. Below is her summary regarding the meeting and the project.
“I have submitted the attached revised documents to LCG for submittal the Round 1 Pre-applications that are due on Friday January 17, 2020. Over the past few weeks since we met with Kasey Courville from St. Martin Parish, I have met with LCG engineering staff to discuss the project, met with ULL along with Dave, Harold and Mike to discuss their current modeling and also updated Kasey on our meeting with ULL and that I was meeting with LCG.
LCG required an actual cost estimate with quantities that I developed for the project. The unit prices were based upon contractors currently performing work and recent bid tabulations of projects with similar items. I modified the application to better answer each question in the application and to make the changes from “Vermilion River” to Bayou Vermilion per request from LCG. All of their documents will refer to it as Bayou Vermilion. I renamed the project to better describe what this particular funding request is for. The word document has the edits referring to Bayou Vermilion, updated cost estimates and updated project name as well as some minor language to make the message more concise.
Based upon my meeting with LCG they will be submitting the attached as one of their nine projects. They like the project and they are going to request a cost from ULL to modify the model that ULL is completing for the Army Corps of Engineers for this project and some others for LCG. At this time they have not received the cost of the modeling. It is our goal to get the modeling completed before the project application in April as it will be better for the project to be selected.
With all of that said, the meeting with LCG was specific to the application submittal of the Spoil Bank Removal Project. It was not a meeting to discuss Coulee Ile Des Cannes or Coulee Mines conditions or other projects or phases of the mitigation nor was it to debate any previous projects, etc. We take the agreement on the project being a great one for submittal and implementation as a “win” towards reducing flood risk to the watershed area. With this submittal and the Atchafalaya Basin Project being funded by CPRA, the takeaway is that we keep finding the funding mechanisms that are applicable and available in order to get projects implemented. “