![]() The state’s building code requires the wet decking around the pad to slope at between 2 to 4 percent for the first 4 feet. Here’s a summary of the consultants’ findings: Either way, the cost will not be minor, and the city is not necessarily assured of a win in court, if it intends to recover all costs. Martin Aquatics’ report illustrates the extent in words as dispiriting as the pictures and in ways that may leave council members pondering how the splash pad could be merely repaired, as opposed to rebuilt. What had started as electrical issues, then filtering issues, then pad surface issues (as the city’s communications office was compelled to portray the series of unfortunate events) soon took on the appearance of a boondoggle. Meanwhile, the consultants’ report leaves no doubt that the splash pad, intended to be the crown jewel of the city’s parks, could not but close after only a few fitful weeks of operations after its May 2021 opening to great fanfare: its IWF, or Interactive Water Features, as goes the way consultants refer to a splash pad, were dysfunctional. But mediation is planned for October between the city and the contractors in an effort to avoid that step. The attorney the city hired for the purpose said the city should be prepared to sue if necessary. The city administration is tallying all repair costs as it intends to recoup them, through legal action if necessary, from parties responsible for the splash pad construction. The council is expected to approve that re-engineering step. That proposal is before the City Council this evening. To design those fixes, Martin Aquatics would charge the city $92,000. Martin Aquatics outlines what should be fixed, but how to do that would be the next step, if the city takes on the firm as its engineering form of record. It is the work of Martin Aquatics, the engineering firm the city hired to evaluate what went wrong at the splash pad, whom to blame among contractors and subcontractors, and what should be fixed. ![]() Rob Stewart (filmmaker) – Canadian photographer, filmmaker and conservationist.The report cost the city $50,000.Ron & Valerie Taylor – ex-spearfishing champions who switched from killing to filming underwater documentaries.Mike Rutzen – great white shark expert and outspoken champion of shark conservation known for free diving unprotected with great white sharks.Hans Hass – diving pioneer, known for shark documentaries.Andre Hartman – South African diving guide best known for free-diving unprotected with great white sharks.Rodney Fox – Australian film maker, conservationist, survivor of great white shark attack and one of the world's foremost authorities on them.Richard Ellis – American marine biologist, author, and illustrator.Ben Cropp – Australian former shark hunter, who stopped in 1962 to produce some 150 wildlife documentaries.Jacques-Yves Cousteau – French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water including sharks. ![]() Leonard Compagno – international authority on shark taxonomy, best known for 1984 catalog of shark species (FAO).Eugenie Clark – American ichthyologist researching poisonous fish and the behavior of sharks popularly known as The Shark Lady.Peter Benchley – author of the novel Jaws, later worked for shark conservation.Apex predator – some shark species are apex predators, that is, predators with no predators of their own, residing at the top of their food chain.Predator – organism that attacks and feeds on prey (the organism that is attacked).Elasmobranch – member of the subclass Elasmobranchii, which includes sharks, rays, and skates.Chondrichthye (cartilaginous fish) – jawed fish with paired fins, paired nares, scales, two-chambered hearts, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone.Fish – gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate (or craniate) animal that lacks limbs with digits.Chordate – Chordates (phylum Chordata) are animals which are either vertebrates or one of several closely related invertebrates.Most kinds of animal are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and independently. An animal's body plan eventually becomes fixed as it develops, although some types of animal undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Animal – multicellular, eukaryotic organism of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa.Meristics – branch of ichthyology that relates to counting features of fish, such as the number of fins or scalesĪ shark, also called a "selachimorph", can be described as all of the following:.Ichthyology – branch of zoology devoted to fish (including sharks).
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