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c c c City of Sunny Isles Beach: Special Inspection Services RFO No. 11-07-11 mitigation for any near-by FDEP registered contamination sites.Additionally, since the late 1980s, URS has been the geotechnical engineer of record for all of the Port Everglades, South port Container Yard (Phases I, II and III) and initial wharf design and construction and subsequent container yard expansion projects (South port Phases IV, V, VI, VII and VIII). Expansion projects IV, VI, VII and VIII all employed a rolling 10 foot high fill surcharge to consolidate compressible intra-coastal waterway peat deposits remnant from the deforested mangrove preserves which once occupied the area. URS actually provided the full services engineering design of container yard pavements and infrastructure for the 45-Acre South port V Container yard expansion. This project was particularly unique and challenging as it was designed and constructed within and over an old abandoned construction material debris landfill at the Port. In addition to container yard geotechnical engineering services, in 2006 URS has supported Port Everglades by performing in- water soil borings and rock coring for dredge deepening evaluations of the Intracoastal Waterway, in the vicinity of the South port Terminal and in what is termed the Weidener Shoal area at the southwest corner of the Port Everglades inlet into the Intracoastal Waterway. Soil borings for this work were performed by Vertical V under URS supervision and are included in the current USACE EIS for the Navigational Waterway dredging improvements proposed for the South port Channel and inlet waterway into the Port. ~ ~I.-~ ~~~'l~ I!, ~~ ... \f,'1 ... ". . ;-.- .;~_. '.., ....~!IiI' ~ , ! Additionally, in July of 2006, URS provided the City of Hollywood with a Dredging Feasibility Study for dredging of the Northlake area. This study provided and evaluated Benthic Surveys, Stormwater Outfall assessments, Bathymetry, Geotechnical Evaluations including in-water sediment sampling and rock coring, Seagrass Assessments and looked at various Environmental Impact analyses for various dredging options (i.e. mechanical versus hydraulic) being considered for the project. This study also evaluated various dredging disposal options being considered for the highly developed residential area surrounding the lake. Precast Prestressed Pilinq Installation - Piles for the fishing pier and bridge structures will likely require driven precast, prestressed piling. Such piling normally requires Pile Driving Analyzer (PDA) testing to evaluate vertical capacity and to provide installation pile driving criteria for the pile driving contractor. If such PDA Testing services are not specified to be provided by the selected project Contractor, URS staff have the PDA testing equipment and are presently providing such PDA testing services to FDOT bridge projects on a regular basis. 2-22 I c' :: g ."