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Hello , my name is Mitchell Candor and

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I am a contracting officer

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representative ac or for the US Army

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Corps of Engineers . My job is to make

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sure that the contractor is not cutting

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any corners and to make sure that the

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taxpayers have a quality product behind

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me is Pool two and we just completed

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notching 17 wing dams . These wing dams

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were created back in the late 18

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hundreds and they were used to raise

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the Mississippi river level to 4.5 ft

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with the installation of our lock and

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dam system . We doubled that making it

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from 4.5 ft to 9 ft , making our wing

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dams going from partially to almost

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completely submerged . Even though

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these things have been a hazard for our

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boaters . They've also been a really

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big home for our fish and a really big

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enjoyable to the fishermen . So to help

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improve navigation but also

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protect our environment . The corps of

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engineers created a long term and dual

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purpose initiative called the

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Navigation and Ecosystem sustainability

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Program or Nest for short . And this is

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the first nest project and we notched

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17 wing dams all the way through South

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ST Paul Park down to Spring Lake and

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these wing dam notches were about 40 to

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100 ft long . And what we did with the

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rock that we notched or removed is we

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placed it adjacently downstream or on

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top of the leftover existing dam

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structure ? A little bit more about my

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job is I just love being outside and

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being able to actually see the things

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that we've designed , being able to put

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everything from paper onto the around

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while also being able to talk to other

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people from the community or just

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contractors that have a lot of

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experience . And overall , while I'm

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doing that , I'm also making sure that ,

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you know , we are having a product that

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is environmentally friendly , but also

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very helpful to the people around .