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From YouTube: This Week in Ames | EAB and the 6th Street Bridge
Description
Justin Clausen gives us an update on the City's EAB plan and the progress of the 6th Street Bridge.
A
My
guest
today
is
Justin
class
on
operations
manager
with
a
city
mames
Public
Works
Justin.
Welcome
to
the
show
thanks,
Susan
I
should
actually
I
actually
say
welcome
back
because
it's
been
a
while,
but
it's
always
great
to
have
you
thanks
it's
great
to
be
here,
and
you
have
so
much
going
on.
It's
always
amazing
how
many
things
fall
kind
of
under
your
management.
One
of
the
things
we
want
to
talk
about
today
is
the
emerald
ash
borer.
Yes,.
B
Where
we're
progressing
through
our
emerald
ash
borer
response
plan,
we're
currently
ending
up
the
second
year
of
a
proposed
20-year
plan,
so
we've
got
trees
that
we
removed
this
past
winter.
A
lot
of
that
happen
in
February
and
March
we
had
a
relatively
mild
winter,
so
we
able
to
take
advantage
of
some
of
that
time.
We
removed
I
think
over
200
trees
about
220
I
believe
if.
B
Yeah
emerald
ash
borer
is
a
lack
of
a
better
term,
a
little
green
bug.
So
it's
a
green
bug.
It's
about
the
size
of
Lincoln's
head.
If
you
look
out
on
a
penny,
what
it
does
is,
it
will
attack
the
ash
tree.
It
will
prevent
it
from
being
able
to
carry
nutrients
up
to
the
to
the
leaves
and
in
doing
so,
it'll
kill
the
tree.
B
So
what
we've
done
in
the
city
is
look
at
what
trees
are
on
public
property,
because
those
are
the
ones
that
the
city
has
a
responsibility
for,
and
how
can
we
address
that?
So
what
we've
done
is
put
together
a
20-year
plan
to
take
care
of
them.
We're
utilizing
all
the
methods
that
we
can
find
in
our
arsenal,
we're
treating
trees,
we're
also
removing
them
and
then
we're
proactively
replanting
as
well.
So.
A
B
Yes,
it
it
was
originally
discovered
in
in
the
Detroit
area
in
Michigan,
and
that
was
in
2002,
and
it
slowly
made
its
way
actually
east
and
west.
It's
just
kind
of
spread
out
radially
from
there
Iowa
had
it
in
2010
and
has
not
been
discovered
named
yet.
However,
story,
city
and
buna
both
have
discovery
so
anytime
we're
within
15
miles
of
discovery
of
the
pest.
Then
they
recommend
that
action
beat
so
two
years
ago
we
went
through
a
planning
process
and
we're
really
putting
that
plan
into
action
now
and.
B
Not
it's
the
treatments
that
you
hear
about
the
treatments
that
we
do.
All
they
are
good
for
is
basically
delaying
the
pest.
It
will
kill
the
pests
in
the
tree,
but
it
doesn't
get
rid
of
it.
So
it
will.
It
will
multiply
exponentially
and
then
eventually
the
pest
pressure
there's
enough
of
them
that
they
will
basically
attack
the
trees
and
it's
not
it's
not
able
to
save
the
tree.
You
have
to
continually
treat
it
and
even
then
it's
not
a
guaranteed
hundred
percent
that
will
save
it.
So.
A
B
Right,
you're
too
so
what's
been
happening
here
recently
is
the
past
week
and
a
half
to
two
weeks.
We've
had
new
trees
go
in
place,
so
our
goal
is
every
tree
we
take
down.
We
want
to
replace
with
the
new
tree,
so
we've
planted
over
200
trees.
The
past
two
weeks
and
we've
been
very
fortunate
as
part
of
this
proactive
effort
that
we're
taking
to
to
partner
with
with
other
community
organizations
such
as
the
Ames
foundation,
to
help
us
do
a
proactive
replanting
before
we
even
remove
any
trees
and
neighborhoods.
B
So
we've
got
a
great
program
coming
up
this
weekend
on
April
thirtieth,
the
Ames
Foundation
will
be
putting
together
a
volunteer
planting
day
in
the
south
campus
area
neighborhood.
So
if
you're
thinking
of
an
area
between
hayward
avenue
and
beach
and
south
to
mortensen
from
lincoln
way
south
to
morgan
sent,
you
has
lots
of
old
large
trees.
Absolutely
there's
a
lot
of
lot
of
large
over
story
there.
So
are.
Our
concern
is,
as
these
trees
begin
to
come
down,
don't
have
a
large
impact
on
the
community.
B
So
we
want
to
minimize
that,
and
earlier
we
can
get
the
trees
planted,
the
bigger
they
can
get,
the
less
impact
will
have.
It
will
have
an
impact.
We
understand
that.
But
if
we
can
be
proactive
about
it,
then
this
is
a
way
to
help
minimize
the
impact
and
the
aim
foundation
has
been
great
to
help
us
find
neighborhoods
help
us
find
volunteers
and
they've
kind
of
ran
with
this,
with
the
city's
backing
and
we
kind
of
help
them
with
specifics
where
to
go
were
to
kind
of
plant
and
that
sort
of
stuff
well.
A
B
They've
been
they
came
to
us,
they've
been
at
the
forefront
of
it.
They've
they've
done
a
lot
of
planning
a
lot
of
fundraising.
It's
a
it's,
an
organization
that
I'd
suggest
people
at
least
look
into.
If
you're
interested
in
it,
they
can
come,
and
we
can
look
at
your
property
as
well
for
for
possible
locations
for
trees
and
just
to
support
them,
because
they
support
a
lot
of
things
that
happen
in
Ames.
So
they've
been
really
helpful
to
us
on
the
public
works
side
and
the
city
overall
to
help
us
riri,
densifier
forest
and.
B
Correct,
that's
that's
the
area!
That's
that's
still
under
the
city
right
of
way
in
our
city
jurisdiction,
so
we
do
have
ownership
and
control
over
those
trees.
Now
the
biggest
thing
that
we
can
ask
the
property
owners
to
do
has
these
new
trees
come
in
is
if
they
would
help
us
water
them
getting
those
trees
established,
getting
them
to
grow,
getting
them
so
where
they
don't
have
to
fight.
B
If
we
get
into
a
drought
area
again,
that's
the
biggest
thing
that
homeowners
can
do
for
them,
we're
glad
to
come
out
and
plant
and
we'll
gladly
come
out
and
educate
them
if
they
can
help
us
water
them
and
when
the
time
comes,
help
us
to
prune
them,
and
we
can
help
the
property
owner
with
that
as
well.
Learning
how
to
do
that.
That's
the
biggest
thing
that
we
can
ask
from
the
homeowners.
Well,.
A
One
of
the
biggest
things
that
I've
learned
from
this
is
sort
of
the
importance
of
diversification.
Some
of
the
neighborhood's,
it
seems
like
the
only
thing
that
was
planted
were
ash
trees
and
that's
going
to
make
you
have
a
huge
impact
when
those
trees
are
removed,
as
opposed
to
neighborhoods
where
it
was
buried.
Yes,.
B
Absolutely
a
great
example
that
is
a
Somerset
neighborhood.
If
you
get
up
in
Somerset
four
out
of
five
trees
up,
there
are
ash
trees.
So
that's
really
been
hit
hard
by
this
emerald
ash
borer,
something
that
we're
kind
of
learning
you're
the
diversification
process,
as
you
mentioned,
so
when
we're
replanting
trees,
we're
looking
at
it
Natalie
globally
on
the
city
of
where
do
we
have
too
many
trees?
B
We
have
a
lot
of
maple
trees
in
the
cities,
we're
trying
to
really
stay
away
from
replanting,
those,
but
also
a
neighborhood
by
neighborhood,
because
some
neighborhoods
may
have
more
of
an
oak
than
something
else,
so
we're
trying
to
look
at
it
locally
and
globally
as
well
to
try
to
help
that
diversification.
So
in
the
future,
if
there
is
another
pest,
if
there
is
another
disease,
we're
able
to
weather
that
storm
a
little
bit
better.
Well,.
A
B
Yep
it'll
give
you
an
idea
when
we're
coming
and
where
we're
coming.
There's
a
there's,
a
nice
map
to
show
you
where
the
trees
are
there's
handy
guides
for
how
much
to
water
window
water
what
trees
are
approved.
If
you
want
to
plant
your
own
trees,
you're
welcome
to
do
that.
We
just
ask
that
you,
let
us
know,
there's
a
short
little
permit
process.
We
can
help
you
look
for
utilities
and
things
like
that
again.
A
So
if
you
want
to
plant
on
the
public
right
away,
you
should
go
to
that
website
and
get
that
information.
First,
correct,
hey
one
other
project
before
you
go
and
that
is
the
sixth
Street
bridge
a
lot
of
attention
to
this
project.
We
don't
get
to
replace
bridges
very
much
in
the
community.
Tell
me
give
me
a
little
bit
of
an
update
on
that
yeah.
B
Progress
is
going
very
well,
so
I
think
when
we
last
talked,
we
were
just
into
the
substructure,
the
lower
part
of
the
bridge,
which
have
been
in
early
january
this
year.
To
date
they
have
the
bridge
basically
completed,
so
the
bridge
deck
is
in
place.
The
beams
are
in
place
right
now,
they're
pouring
some
of
the
rails,
that'll
keep
basically
traffic
on
the
bridge
and
separate
pedestrians
from
vehicles
and
large.
B
In
part,
the
the
bridge
structure
is
complete,
so
we
kind
of
switch
gears
now
to
the
roadway
section
of
it,
which
is
going
to
involve
some
new
storm
sewer.
It's
going
to
involve
new
bridge
approach,
paving
and
new,
paving
on
either
end
of
the
bridge
and
then
also
some
some
modifications
and
rehabilitation
of
the
shared
use,
path
and
sidewalks
in
that
area.
So
we're
still
we're
still
a
ways
out
for
me
able
to
open
to
traffic.
B
However,
one
of
the
nice
things
that
we
were
able
to
do
is
we're
able
to
get
the
bridge
built
before
we
had
any
inclement
weather,
such
as
a
lot
of
rainfall.
Events
that
may
have
chased
us
out
of
Creek,
so
we're
able
to
get
that
done
so
now
all
the
work
happens
up
top.
So
if
there
is
some
high
water
events,
it's
not
going
to
affect
our
progress
now.
B
What
you're
going
to
see
is
basically
from
brookside
park
across
the
bridge
and
then
we're
not
going
to
make
it
all
the
way
to
brooke
ridge
or
hazel,
where
they
were
like,
where
the
light
is
we're
going
to
stop
just
short
of
that
and
the
reason
for
that
is
we're
kind
of
limited
on
our
funding
that
comes
from
the
federal
government.
This
has
some
federal
funds
in
it,
so
we
had
to
make
some
choices
of.
Where
do
we?
Where
do
we
place
our
money?
B
So
while
it's
not
going
to
be
all
brand
new
to
the
light,
what
we'll
do
on
the
maintenance
side
is
once
the
new
pavements
going
in
our
maintenance
crews
will
in
there
and
do
some
rehab
work
to
make
that
road
as
new
as
possible
as
we
can.
So
it's
going
to
be
pretty
close
to
being
new,
but
you
will
see
that
we
one
area
on
the
east
end
that
will
be
completely
rehabilitated
and.
B
That's
our
goal:
we
want
to
get
it
want
to
get
it
in
before
move
and
move
out
if
possible.
We
know
that
there's
a
lot
of
other
work
happening
around
town
that
that
really
this
affects
that
you
know
some
of
the
other
projects
that
really
really
coordinate
with
our
east-west
corridors.
This
is
that
this
is
a
main
corridor
for
us,
so
we're
we're
tracking
well
and
we're
hopeful
that
we
can.
We
can
do
better
than
that.
Bulls
have
to
see
what
Mother
Nature
throws
at
us
great.
A
Thanks
Justin,
it's
always
helpful
to
get
these
updates.
I
appreciate
you
taking
the
time
and
stopping
by
anytime.
Thank
you
again.
If
you
want
more
updates
about
the
sixth
Street
bridge
or
other
construction
projects,
aims,
don't
forget
that
handy
website,
city
of
ames,
org,
forward,
slash
construction.
Has
all
your
information.
Some
other
things
you
might
want
to
think
about.
As
it
gets
into
may
remember:
Saturday
May
fourteenth
is
our
yard
waste
spring
free
day.
It
is
the
only
spring
free
day
we
have
that
Saturday
May
fourteenth
from
8am
to
4pm.