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E
B
Engineering,
director
of
public
works
for
the
city
of
Athens,
and
today
we
are
here
to
do
a
ribbon,
cutting
on
the
Northwest
bike
paths
per
phase,
2
project
I'm,
going
to
start
with
just
a
little
talk
about
the
history
and
and
kind
of
of
this
project
and
what
it
took
to
get
it
to
fruition
and
then
a
little
bit
about
the
way
ahead
from
this
point
and
then
also
I'll
turn
it
over
to
the
mayor
to
give
any
any
words
of
wisdom
prior
to
actually
cutting
me
and.
A
B
Else
that
he
sees
fit
to
talk
prior
to
get
to
actually
cutting
the
ribbon
once
we
do
the
ribbon
cutting
and
we've
got
that
done.
Anyone
who's
interested.
We
can
walk
down
and
look
at
a
couple
of
the
special
features
associated
with
this
project
and
I
can
kind
of
talk
through
those
a
little
bit
if
you're
interested,
because
this
is
far
more
than
a
bike
path
and
that's
that's
important
to
know
so.
The
Northwest
bike
paths
per
phase.
Two,
let
me
give
you
a
little
background
about
this.
B
1855,
the
belfry
to
Cincinnati
railway
came
to
Athens.
That
was
the
first
railroad
to
get
to
Athens
and
it
was
pretty
critical
to
the
to
the
history
of
the
city
and
Athens
importance
in
the
region.
Athens
lobbied
to
get
it
here
that
rail
was
active
for
about
130
years,
and
it
followed
that
that
track
that
you
see
it.
It's
the
section
of
rail
road
that
goes
through
the
middle
of
Athens.
B
If
you
look
at
our
map
in
Athens-
and
you
see
the
railroad
where
it
goes
to
the
center,
that's
what
it
followed
and
then
went
to
points
west,
ultimately
to
through
the
Moonville
tunnel
over
in
vinton
county
and
then
on
up
to
chicago
and
the
way
that
it
followed
was
via
this.
This
railroad
bed
that
you
see
over
here
in
the
1980s
early
1980s
mid
1980s.
It
ceased
operations
and
through
changes
of
ownership
in
the
in
the
railroad.
B
You
know
the
different
different
railroad
companies
made
the
determination
that
line
was
no
longer
necessary
and
proposed
to
sell
off
sections
on
line
in
the
early
1990s.
Our
our
city
leaders
in
their
in
their
infinite
wisdom,
saw
fit
without
necessarily
knowing
what
it
was
going
to
be
for
to
recognize
that
those
rights
of
way
associated
with
the
railroad
made
a
lot
of
sense
to
acquire
for
municipal
use.
Now,
some
of
that
some
of
it
was
purchased
by
Ohio
University.
B
In
fact,
a
great
deal
of
was
purchased
by
University,
but
the
section
from
the
water
treatment
plant
on
to
682,
including
this
bridge
here,
was
purchased
by
the
city
leaders
in
the
early
1990s
flash
forward
to
the
late
1990s,
almost
2000
time
frame.
The
university
estates
planned
unit
development
k
into
the
city
and
Athens
City
Council
struck
an
agreement
with
a
developer
to
annex
850,
more
acres
into
the
city
and
part
of
that
annexation
agreement
was
the
planned
unit
development.
It's
a
big
long
agreement
that
talked
about
a
number
of
different
things.
B
One
thing
we
in
the
city
agreed
to
in
that
agreement
was
to
secure,
grant
funding
and
oversee
construction
of
a
bike
paths
/
to
the
University
States
development.
So
that's
something
that
has
sat
in
that
agreement
for
the
last
17
or
18
years
and
was
just
there.
So
we
knew
that
it
was
there.
In
2010,
we
found
funding
through
the
ohio
department
of
natural
resources,
specifically
the
recreational
trails
fund,
to
build
what
we
call
the
northwest
bike
paths
per
phase
one
and
what
that
included
was
the
portion
from
the
hike
hike
in
Edina
bike
way.
B
On
the
other
side
of
the
river
up
onto
the
top
of
the
old
railroad
embankment
at
less
than
a
five
percent
grade,
so
we
can
meet
a
DA
requirements
and
then
the
reed
ecking
of
the
abandoned
railroad
bridge.
In
order
to
be
a
pedestrian
and
bike
bridge
and
and
of
note,
when
we
did
that
project
that
Reed
decking
is
done
in
in
Southeast
Ohio
white
oak,
we
could
have
used
treated
timber
purchase
from
a
store,
maybe
ship
from
somewhere
else.
B
But
we
instead
used
white
oak
decking
and
that
will
last
far
longer
than
any
treated
timber.
You
would
buy
from
the
store
and
we
it
was
harvested
sustainably
here
in
southeastern
Ohio
and
then
turned
into
a
bridge
for
us,
and
so
that
was
the
end
and
a
lot
of
people
said
hey.
Well,
that's
the
bike
path
to
nowhere
right,
when's
it
going
to
keep
going
and
we
said
well,
we
got
to
work
on
getting
some
funding
pulled
together
to
get
the
next
section.
B
B
Several
years
ago,
we
sought
funding
through
the
clean
Ohio
fund
in
a
program
called
the
clean,
Ohio
Conservation
Fund,
which
is
used
to
for
look
mutable
and
county
governments,
townships
and
501c3
conservation
groups
to
acquire
property
for
perpetuity
to
keep
in
some
sort
of
conserved,
wilderness
or
some
sort
of
conserved
non
intensive
use
state.
This
was
a
farm
field
owned
by
the
hope,
family
and
the
hope
family
saw
fit
to
to
sell
it
up
to
the
city
of
Athens.
B
Under
the
terms
the
conservation,
clin,
Ohio,
Conservation,
Fund
grant
and
the
purpose
of
us
purchasing
this,
and
we
couldn't
just
say,
hey
we're
buying
this
field
to
make
a
bike
back
right
because
that's
great,
but
ultimately
we
needed
to
look
a
little
bit
higher
and
better
when
it
came
to
what
we
could
do
to
create
a
sustainable
area.
And
so
we
looked
at
this
low
ground
that
was
farmed
all
the
way
up,
pretty
much
to
the
edge
of
the
river
and,
from
time
to
time,
was
tilled
and
such
and
from
a
water
quality
perspective.
B
We
said
you
know
we
can.
We
can
do
some
better
stuff
with
water
quality
in
here
to
protect
the
surface
water
quality
from
you
know,
denuded
soils
or
agricultural
runoff,
as
well
as
groundwater
quality,
because
this
it's
right
smack
dab
in
the
middle
of
our
source,
water
protection
area
in
the
city
of
Athens
and
we've
kind
of
made
it
an
informal
policy
that
any
time
we
can
acquire
land
that
is
in
the
city
of
Athens
source
water
protection
area.
B
We
do
because
that's
that
much
more
land
that
we
can
control
the
Yuuzhan
and
avoid
pollution
of
the
groundwater
by
some
inadvertent
means.
So
beyond
that
we
said
hey.
If
we
buy
this,
we
looked
at
it
in
as
Gary
didn't
make
it.
So
we
we
can
not
only
do
something
different
than
agriculture
with
the
surface,
but
we
can
we
can.
B
We
can
regenerate
so
natural
habitat
and
specifically
some
wetlands,
because
we
had
a
an
area
of
this
field
that
never
never
drained
or
if
it
did
drain,
it
laid
wait
a
lot
and-
and
we
had
some
scientists
from
the
voidage
school,
come
out
and
look
at
it
and
say
hey
this
is
this
is
considered
an
emergent
wetland
by
the
US,
Fish
and
Wildlife
Service
and
and
there's
some
soils
in
here
that
could
make
this
really
into
a
high
quality
wetland.
B
If
you
can
retain
the
water,
and
so
we
put
together
our
application
and
apply
for
the
the
clean
Ohio
conservation
funds
and
said
we're
going
to
build
a
bike
path,
we're
going
to
reforest
the
edge
along
along
the
river
to
promote
surface
water
quality
and
then
we're
going
to
build
a
wetland
to
have
better
habitat
in
the
area
and
all
possibly
lead
to
a
high-quality
wetland.
So
we
got
the
money
we
were
subsequently
went
and
and
and
bought
the
property
from
the
hope,
family
and
then
went
forward
on
design.
B
B
So
we
had
to
kind
of
thread
the
needle
between
the
space
that
we
were
allocating
as
a
wetland
and
those
hydric
soils
and
the
gas
line
easement.
So
that
was
one
of
the
major
challenges.
Obviously
we
have
a
lot
of
great
issues.
We've
got
some
soft
soil
issues
and
some
fill
needs.
We
had
the
100-year
floodplain
and,
more
specifically,
the
floodway
that
we
had
to
stay
out
of
the
flood
way
in
order
to
stay
in
compliance
with
our
flood
regulations.
B
So
there
were,
there
were
quite
a
few
challenges
until
to
land
at
this
final
alignment
that
you
see
here
in
front
of
you,
but
we
got
it
done,
and
so,
when
we
get
done
with
the
with
the
ribbon-cutting
here,
we'll
walk
and
we'll
look
at
a
couple
of
the
aspects
of
it.
Oh
and
one
other
thing
that
I
should
note
as
part
of
our
water
quality
efforts
through
the
Athens
swim
and
Water
Conservation
Service
for
Conservation
District,
tree
sale,
we
purchased
6500
trees
and
with
city
staff
and
volunteers
and
second
graders.
B
While,
though
they
didn't
plant
very
much,
we
have
planted
6500
seedlings
in
the
section
from
the
bike
path.
This
way,
so
it's
hard
to
see
them.
Obviously,
because
there's
this
big
right
now,
the
deer
will
probably
eat
seventy
percent
of
them,
but
that's
kind
of
what
you
get
when
you
do
ceilings,
but
if
ten
percent
or
twenty
percent
of
those
grow
in
a
few
years,
we
really
start
to
see
this
area
start
to
reforest
any
area
on
the
other
side
turn
into
a
high-quality
wetland.
B
So
that's
been
our
effort
here
over
the
last
the
last
several
years
really
and
we're
looking
forward
to
moving
forward
to
to
phase
3
and
trying
to
get
it
booked
the
rest
of
the
way
up
in
accordance
with
our
bike
and
pedestrian
master
plan,
which
our
city
leaders
have
soft
into
to
put
in
place
and
we're
really
trying
to
detect
with
that
I'll
turn
it
over
to
Mayor
wow.
Ok,.
C
Makes
it
sound
so
easy?
Doesn't
it
not
a
lot
of
moving
parts?
It's
just.
Let's
go
get
the
money
and
go
then
we
have
to
do
with
the
engineering
of
talk
about
saving
riparian
area,
preserving
that
we'll
head
protection,
floodplain
lots
of
moving
pieces.
It's
easy!
I
just
have
to
sign
the
stuff
every
once
awhile
say
yes,
this
is
great,
so
Andy
does
a
good
job.
I,
don't
Jessica
does
it.
C
The
projects
have
come
from
across
here
and
council
who
helped
out
gaara,
send
a
planner
which
has
the
bike
pedestrian
planets,
which
is
this
is
part
of
I.
Don't
even
I
can
you
can
see
how
we're
going
to
get
up
to
the
top
of
Percy
state
school
environment?
Switchbacks.
Look
like
one
of
those.
You
know
spy
movies,
where
we
have
to
zip
back
and
forth
every
hairpin
turn.
C
F
C
Growing
activity
to
make
it
both
as
recreation
transportation
in
terms
of
bike
that
I
would
have
biked
here,
except
I,
just
got
out
of
a
sopec
meeting
where
we're
talking
about
energy
efficiencies
and
upgrades
and
all
that
stuff
and
had
to
run
from
one
to
the
other
I
think
what
we're
doing
for
the
city
is
all
good.
I
think
this
is
part
of
it.
I
I'd
like
to
thank
everybody
who
participated
and
there's
lots
of
moving
parts.
You
know
my
administration
well,
I
see
quite
a
few
of
them
here.
C
E
Guys
say
one
thing:
this
was
a
real
challenging
stunt
summer
for
city
staff,
and
this
was
their
project.
That's
the
way,
I
look
at
it
and
I
think
they
did
a
fine
job,
pulling
it
all
together
and
figuring
out
how
to
meet
the
deadlines
and
and
getting
it
done
and
I
want
to
just
go
on
record
and
thank
them
for
that,
because
I
know
there
were
a
lot
of
struggles.
So
we
all
appreciate
that
Kurt.
B
C
I
said:
there's
lots
of
moving
parts.
It's
very
it's
not
as
easy
as
everybody
thinks
it's
a
you
know.
This
is
how
we're
cities
run
their
complex,
they're,
not
simple.
Lance's,
there's,
always
question
resources
and
we
try
our
best
and
and
that's
all
anybody
can
do
here,
I'll
any
of
our
administration
and
any
citizen.
So
patty
you
I
see
you
have
a
ribbon,
so
just
split
up
there
who
wants
a
participant,
transportation,
committee,
members,
okay,
one
two,
three
pedal:
okay,.
B
To
talk
about
a
couple
of
the
different
features
down
here,
if
you're
interested-
and
we
won't
go
all
the
way
up
on
top
all
right,
so
the
the
witness
this
field
operated
in
the
way
it
drains
this
it
drains
this
ravine
that
comes
down
that
ravine
Oh
a
couple
dozen
acres
up
in
University
of
states
drain
into
that
ravine
and
then
comes
down
through
a
old
old
culvert,
underneath
the
railroad
tracks
and
then
pops
out
in
the
middle
of
that
brush
right
there
and
came
through
a
ditch.
B
Basically
in
this
field,
where
the
farmer
had
taken
and
decided
to
try
to
channel
the
water
away
from
his
crops
and
then
get
it
through
a
series
of
field
drains
that
kind
of
went
through
the
middle
here
and
then
ultimately
out.
Let
it
down
kind
of
near
the
bridge
so
and
it
have
been
that
way
forever.
B
If
you
looked
at
the
pictures
we
had
up
earlier,
you
saw
in
the
wintertime
and
didn't
drain
very
well
when
you
had
lots
of
precipitation
and
when
the
ground
was
frozen,
it
didn't
soak
in
and
catch
catch
those
that
field
tile.
Well,
we
ripped
the
field
tile
out.
I
ripped
the
field
tile
out
in
the
area
where
it
crossed
where
the
bike
path
is
so
it
no
longer
will
function
in
that
capacity
as
a
drain
any
longer,
or
at
least
we
hope,
that's
the
intent
so
that
ditch
is
kind
of
eliminated.
B
The
water
will
kind
of
just
just
fill
this
low
area.
The
hydric
soils
were
identified
mainly
in
this
space,
so
granite
from
over,
where
682
in
the
railroad
currently
connect
an
existing
railroad
kind
of
all
in
through
this
space
here
over
up
to
against,
where
the,
where
the
little
ditch
was
built.
So
this
is
really
the
area
that
was
identified
as
having
the
potential
wetland
species
re-emerge
if
it
could
say,
wet
more
fruitful.
B
So
when
we
did
the
design
we
looked
at
where
we
needed
to
have
the
water
so
that
the
the
the
wetland
could
sit
anywhere
between
18
and
30
inches
deep
and
that's
the
ideal.
The
idea
is
that
right,
I
said
that
the
ideal
depth
in
order
to
get
the
highest
quality
wetland,
and
so
the
top
of
that
grading
right
there
and
that
structure
that
you
see
down
there
is
that
30
inches
and
then
the
bike
path
itself
is
a
couple
more
feet
above
that,
where
is
the
top
road
since
I
honey,
your
floodplain,
you
remember.
D
B
But
because
this
is
here,
the
river
will
be
allowed
to
influence
the
wetland
and
provide
additional
nutrients
and
benefits
there
from
from
the
wetland.
So
the
the
picture
right
over
that
is
Jessica's,
salad
or
I'm.
Sorry
papal.
So
it's
the
the
side.
B
C
B
Crew
made
that
sign
for
her
when
she
was
trying
to
describe
to
them
what
they
were
building
but
yeah.
We
did
attempt
to
kill
a
lot
of
the
Johnson
grass
in
this
area,
but
we
weren't
allowed
when
in
fact
we
chose
not
to
use
broadcasts,
praying
to
to
do
that,
because
it's
in
the
wellhead
protection
area-
and
we
don't
allow
for
that
in
the
water
protection
area.
So
we
don't
want
do
it
ourselves.
We
weren't
real
effective
with
the
spot
control
that
we
attempted
to
kill
a
lot
of
the
Johnson
grass.
B
B
B
Know
I'd
like
to
see
you
around
once:
it's
just
you
know,
looks
dry
now
because
it's
a
ten
rain,
but
once
we
get
into
winter
and
spring
rains,
it'll
fill
in
those
soils
should
to
hold
the
water.
Now,
if
there's
some
field
tile,
that
we
didn't
find
somewhere
and
kind
of
came
to
leach
out
I
mean
work,
I
don't
know,
but
they
said
that
it
should
hold.
What's
going
to
keep
mosquitoes
cuz
I
know
along
the
bike
path,
this
your
old
canal,
it's
pretty
bad
for
mosquitoes,
so
they
well.
B
The
important
thing
is
that
18
to
30
inch
depth
and
if
that
18
to
30
inch
depth
occurs,
then
you
have
the
right
species
will
start
to
live
in
there
all
the
time
that
will
eat
the
mosquito
log.
If
it's
too
deep
and
stagnant
or
too
shallow
and
kind
of
intermittent
stagnant,
you
don't
have
the
correct
species
go
in
there,
and
so
that's
really.
The
big
the
big.
The
big
thing
is,
is
the
mosquitoes
will
be
nationally
preyed
upon
by
the
species
that
used
to
make
their
home
here
because
of
the
death,
mostly
other
insects,.
D
D
C
B
C
B
B
B
B
B
The
railroad
was
already
there
and
work.
You
know.
We've
got
a
good
distance
above
it
there's
high
pressure
gas
lines
in
other
places
in
the
city
is
a
significant
one
up
at
University
of
states
that
cross
this
through
there.
So
you
know
as
long
as
you're
you
do
it
correctly.
You
can
work
over,
but
they
they
watch
it
like
a
pot.
If.
B
That
same
network
that
Network
then
continues
up
kind
of
along
the
river
and
crosses
word
crosses
that
he
goes
through
our
well
field
over
over
there.
But
then
okay
Hannah
follows
the
railroad
tracks
a
little
bit
and
then
there's
a
section
that
goes
across
the
field
where
the
township
spread
or
Township
I'm.
Sorry
that
County
wastewater
treatment
plant
is
up
there
and
the.
B
B
G
B
Figure
out
how,
in
the
last,
you
know
couple
hundred
feet
how
we're
going
to
get
from
you
know
up
to
university,
States,
Boulevard
and
we've
got
some.
We've
got
a
design
right
now,
it
probably
is
going
to
need
to
be
tweaked
will
probably
use
mechanically
stabilized
earth,
retaining
walls
to
be
able
to
build
a
couple
switchbacks
up
at
the
top,
but
for
the
most
part
it's
pretty
straightforward.
There's
been
a
couple.
Other
utilities
go
through
there.
B
B
A
F
B
Order
for
us
to
accept
it,
that's
one
of
the
reasons
why
we're
breaking
it
into
phase
2
and
phase
3,
instead
of
just
keeping
that
as
part
of
phase
2,
because
we
needed
to
get
this
done
because
of
the
grant
funding.
You
know
we
had
till
October,
thirty-first
I
think
to
to
be
done
and
tell
ODNR
that
hey,
we
did
okay,
great
candy.
What
that
mic
pack
connect
up
there,
just
short
of
the
top
reading
signs
now
saying
bike
yeah
those
signs
in
dr.
F
B
That's
left
over
from
that,
but
it's
going
to
those
signs
are,
but
it's
going
to
connect
to.
If
you
look
at
university
estates
Boulevard,
it
goes
from
about
24
or
26
feet
wide
to
like
32
feet
wide
and
that's
the
point
where
it
connects.
It's
there's
a
road
that
it
never
was
platted.
It's
a
gravel
road
that
comes
down
to
armitage
a
little
further
down
here,
and
so
it
basically
will
end
just
just
downhill
from
that
road.
C
F
B
682
I'll
look
at
that,
so
it
is
our
property.
Actually,
the
city
of
Athens
owns
the
property
from
all
the
way
up
to
the
cross
along
the
old
railroad
right-of-way.
Now
it's
only
a
50
foot
right
away
along
the
old
road
rail
in
that
section,
but
the
city
does
owning
I
hesitate
to
advertise
it
formally
because
of
the
interaction
with
the
highway
and
the
crossing.