it's a sunday morning, started at 6 am writing reports for work. So my sunday includes sentences like this:
The reduced discharge from the underdrain system also has the benefit of mimicking existing site conditions of lateral flow to the water resources, assisting in ensuring that the proposed design will match the hydrologic regime on the project site.
I don't enjoy using language like that when i want to say:
'sall good. 🤷♂️
#worktoot
@Kurtroedeger I feel this so much today. My day will be spent writing sentences that say "Even though scour is not indicated at this location and scour countermeasures are proposed for the slope in front of the wall, we have conservatively considered the 2 ft of scour associated with the 500-yr storm in our axial resistance evaluations for the soldier piles and global stability models for the retaining wall system." Two feet...not the end of the world ppl. #itwillsurvive
@Kurtroedeger It's a relatively small creek but large enough to warrant a bridge instead of a culvert. They'd be better off if they weren't putting the pedestrian trail located in front of the abutment wall below the flood elevation. I feel like someone in the planning stages should have said "oh hey, maybe we should try to keep the creek within the existing (stable) channel..." I wonder if I can add a toddler comparison somewhere in this report...I bet I could and no one would even notice.
@Foxthorn this project is interesting. Industrial development, but I will have 3 culverts (2 large ones, car sized), and a stream relocation (I can straddle it, but not a toddler), but it's more a drainage channel cut on a steep slope I will meander and make into a nice stream in the end, but still have to justify the permitting.
Ped trails are usually happier projects
@Kurtroedeger I am jealous that you get a say in the design :) I just design what I'm told to design and try to warn the owner when it's a terrible idea. On the other hand, I am not jealous of having to deal with permitting. The worst I have to deal with on that end is railroad coordination and staying out of wetlands.
@Foxthorn my design say, is limited in the framework of all the various regulations. So yes, there are design elements, but it's more a puzzle to make all the different rule work 🤷♀️ puzzles can be fun though
@Foxthorn sounds like a wall along a stream, and not a little stream. I have one that a toddler can straddle, i just put a gabion basket wall along it. No scour calcs. Or at least, I was not asked to provide any *yet*. maybe I can include the toddler comparison if they ask 😂