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The following clarifying statements were submitted by meeting host John Freeburg via email shortly <br />after he received the draft copy of the meeting minutes: <br />Statement 1: I would like to add some clarifications. Regarding the rip -rap to my property, this was done <br />in conjunction with my immediate upstream neighbor Mr. Al Farmes. Over the course of about 20 years <br />He and I have put in about $50,000 out of pocket into the restoration and repair of our mutual <br />approximately 100 foot long riverbank. He put in approximately $15,000 and I put in approximately <br />$35,000. He and I spent many hours of our own labor in completing this project. We have both <br />benefited greatly from this mutual effort. At the current time neither of us can preform the heavy labor <br />required to maintain or add to the river bank. Lately I have had to hire a local contractor to help me with <br />these tasks. The current cost of these repairs is approximately $3,000 per running foot of river bank if <br />starting from nothing, considering the cost of putting one ton of material in place about $1,000 and it <br />takes about 3 tons to cover up one foot of riverbank. <br />Regarding the power plants. There are actually two of them up stream from us, one nuclear plant at <br />Monticello and one coal plant at Becker. Both put out cooling water discharge into the river. Several <br />years ago the Monticello plant was shut down for maintenance, during the winter of that year the river <br />froze over as it had done in years past and a "normal " ice out occurred that spring. The Becker plant <br />was in full operation during this time. This would seem to indicate that the river can handle the <br />discharge from one power plant but not two. <br />Statement2: Just one more clarification. The rock ridge that is approximately 1/3 mile down stream <br />from me is also the approximate same location for an underwater power cable crossing. The possibility <br />exists that the rock ridge was put there to protect the power line. This would mean that our flooding <br />problem is in part man made but completely out of our control. <br />-\) <br />