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Sarasota News Leader September 20, 2013 Page 27 Now Garland is taking up the mantle. He is in addition, the company will undertake a hydrocharge of a $1.1 million contract to devise a graphic survey of the lime rock base of Hudplan to fix the project. son Bayou and examine the footers of the Osprey Avenue bridge. OPTIONS CONSIDERED "The current design used a micro-tunnel under Hudson Bayou," said Garland at the Sept. 18 meeting. "We'll look at that, may look at going deeper. We'll also look at horizontal directional drilling. And we'll look at alternative alignments, shifting to the right or left." The horizontal directional scheme would create an "inverted siphon" under the Bayou. Steve Topovski, the city's project manager, said the neighborhoods will be alerted. And teams from McKim and Creed must follow the rules about using city right of way. "So you'll need to give us a little earlier heads-up," pointed out Steve Crumpton, a utilities manager for the city. PUBLIC OUTREACH Starting next month, test borings will be conducted to recheck existing conditions. "We'll This could be the most open project the city need to get our drill rigs started," noted Gar- ever has attempted. There is a full-time public land. "We'll have them in the field Oct. 7." In relations specialist involved, Michelle Robin- The Lift Station 87 group meets on Sept. 18. Photo by Stan Zimmerman