2MC Podcast Eps 84 - Project Roundup!
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Courtney
And I'm Courtney. Welcome back to two MC.
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MAK
This is our weekly podcast where we talk about all things Martin County events, happenings, projects, board meetings when during board meeting week.
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Courtney
All the things. Yeah.
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MAK
Cool stuff.
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Courtney
It is cool stuff. And you can watch and listen.
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MAK
I know, I love that. Do you listen to us or watch us?
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Courtney
You know, actually, I am right here.
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Courtney
Live.
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MAK
You don't ever listen like you don't sit down with your family and just like, hey, look what we did this week, okay?
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Courtney
I tell them they need to watch it. Okay, so they know what we did this week. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So let's get into it.
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MAK
All right. We have some project updates. Right? Yes. What do you want to start with?
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Courtney
So I say.
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MAK
How about Charlie Leighton?
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Courtney
Yeah. My gosh. What? It's like we both read it at the same time. Oh.
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MAK
It is written down there. That's cool.
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Courtney
Okay, so Charlie Leighton Park.
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MAK
Yep. It's been a long project, but a pretty incredible results. A lot of cool stuff going on there.
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Courtney
So they replaced the boat ramps? Yes. They increased boat ramp and car parking spaces.
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MAK
They reconfigured the parking so that it's a safer route. In and out.
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Courtney
Would you like the flow of.
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MAK
The. Access o traffic flow? Traffic flow? That's better terminology.
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Courtney
They added additional dock and floating docks.
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MAK
Yes. And what's that walkway called? Just a walkway.
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Courtney
I would say that's about an additional dock.
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MAK
Okay.
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Courtney
I think that's cool. Some pavilions. It really.
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MAK
Food truck parking area.
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Courtney
Like hookups,
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MAK
Hookups, hookups and everything. Hookups? Yes. Also. And green space. Sorry, I just I love that they added a little bit of green space to it. I like that because that was not there, so I like that. Yeah. Also dredged right out in front of the docks and the boat ramps. Yeah. Perfect. Sounds like a fully put together project.
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MAK
Yep. And we're going to be having an opening. I think we talked about it briefly, but we'll drop it down in the show notes. Yes. Right. Yes. Cool. Okay. Next up. County line bridge. Yes. This is a pretty neat project, and we have been talking about this for a while. This bridge was originally built in the early 70s.
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MAK
1974, to be exact. Right when you were in elementary school or not born? Yep. Correct.
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Courtney
And so this project is going to help with the structure in itself.
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MAK
Right. Yes.
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Courtney
But also there realigning it to to be a safer.
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MAK
I know because like if you're approaching it from the east side, right, there's a pretty big curve. So there's straightening it out. And they're also adding a multimodal pathway attached to the bridge. Right now it's separate. Yes. So anyway there realigning doing a lot of stuff there. Contract has been awarded. We were just out there yesterday looking at it.
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MAK
And they're getting ready to start this fall.
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Courtney
That's so exciting. And this is a honestly, this is a very great example of a project that is needed within the community with the help of state and federal dollars.
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MAK
Yeah, lots of grant funding in there from state and federal. And also I love this because it's a it is a huge collaboration. This is a is a really full community effort that's going into it. Right. So it's really into Cuesta from the Martin County side. Right. But it's it's impacting traffic flow in neighborhoods. So they're talking fire rescue, sheriff's office, school district a lot of village of a Martin County government.
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Courtney
Different stakeholders in this project.
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MAK
Yeah. But I love the collaboration that's gone into it. So it's going to be a pretty neat project. Yeah. Waiting for that to get started.
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Courtney
And then currently we are in Rocky Point doing a neighborhood restoration project. And so this is really replacing installing new stormwater pipes, drainage structures, sidewalks, sidewalks.
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MAK
Like I love how they do this now because they used to do it like utilities would do their thing.
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Courtney
Yeah. Different.
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MAK
And then public works would come in and be like, oh, now we're going to do sidewalks in there. We're going to do whatever drainage. So now they coordinate. I mean, for a long time they've been coordinating. But it's a coordinated effort between all the departments.
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Courtney
Yeah. Yeah. And it helps with pedestrian safety improvements. Yes it does.
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MAK
It does.
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Courtney
And then speaking of utilities.
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MAK
Septic to sewer conversions. This is a project that was really bored. Board approved, board initiated. Board directed that we have 10,000 subject to sewer conversions or hookups in a ten year period. And I think we have exceeded the 10,000 we have in under our ten years.
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Courtney
Yes, which is amazing.
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MAK
Yeah, it's pretty cool. We had 22 prioritized project areas and currently underway is bow River in North. Yep. Jensen Beach, northern end of the county. And I think that's like almost 250 properties that can connect to that. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah. And I think we're a little over 13,000. And that's what the information says right there. Wow. Yeah.
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MAK
That's great. I'm glad you wrote that down. So a little over 13,000 connected, which is cool. Good for our good for our utilities. Good for our people. Great for our environment.
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Courtney
Yeah, it's really a great for our environment.
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MAK
Yeah.
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Courtney
Yeah. So we have spoken about this before on our podcast, but we thought we would do a quick little update on the Living Shoreline project happening at Indian Riverside Park.
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MAK
Can we do a little check in with Jessica?
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Courtney
Yeah.
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MAK
Let's go. Okay.
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Jessica Garland
I'm Jessica Garland, the coastal program manager for Martin County Public Works environmental resources division. We're currently at the Indian Riverside Park in front of the Living Shoreline project that has been going on for the last year. So we're building 24 breakwaters to stabilize the shoreline, and we have 20 out of the 24 breakwaters built. As you can see, they're installing rocks on the last two right here in this location.
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Jessica Garland
We have not closed any parts of the park except for the small staging area at the north side of the Tuckahoe Mansion. The boardwalk is open. You can see most of the construction going on from the boardwalk, from the pier, from the beach, over by the fountains. It's an interesting day for anybody just wanting to watch how these breakwaters are being built.
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Jessica Garland
And then in the next few months, you can see the 2000 plants being installed, along with the exotic vegetation removal that will occur before the plants are installed. So all of that is open and everybody is more than welcome to stand here and watch it from the pier and the boardwalk. We're helping nature be nature. It's green infrastructure, so we're stabilizing something to restore it back to what it was and let nature rebuild what was there at one point in time.
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MAK
Okay. We're back.
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Courtney
We are back. And thanks so much, Jessica, for that quick update.
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MAK
I know it.
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Courtney
Was great living. Shoreline. That's a really great project. Also great for the environment.
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MAK
Yes.
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Courtney
And we'll help with our, the.
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MAK
Shoreline stabilization. I knew what you were talking about.
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Courtney
Yeah.
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MAK
Yeah, sure. Line.
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Courtney
Shoreline.
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MAK
Yeah. People, you know, a lot of people that's a highly utilized park and a lot of people walk along there. So they've been seeing the efforts just off the shoreline and kind of wondering where we are with it. So that was a good update.
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Courtney
Yeah. And it also helps take that pressure off of that seawall that's there too.
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MAK
Yes it does.
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Courtney
Yeah.
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MAK
Yeah. That's at the mention of Tuckahoe right.
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Courtney
It is at the mansion at Tuckahoe. Okay. Yes. Where? I started my time here at the county.
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MAK
I was just going to say. Did you ever work at the mansion, Courtney?
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Courtney
Yes.
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MAK
Yeah. I feel like you. You could walk around those hallways and look like you lived there.
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Courtney
It's. I honestly, that would be amazing.
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MAK
It's it's an incredible view. If you guys have not gone, you really should check it out. They have docent led tours. We'll drop the link in the show notes that. Yeah, it's a beautiful. It's just a beautiful.
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Courtney
Thing to do that you also should do Captain Souls house tours. Yes. I mean, that's also a very.
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MAK
We do that in our cares class. Yeah. And it's just such an incredible history that we have. And I think, you know, you drive by the spots every day.
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Courtney
Yeah. And you're not really, like, thinking about it. Yes. But you're able to do the tours. Definitely do it because it does give you a better understanding.
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MAK
It's a whole different perspective.
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Courtney
Yeah. It does give you a different perspective. And there's.
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MAK
All these little places just kind of tucked into little place pockets in our community that are just just so full of history.
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Courtney
Yes. Yeah I agree.
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MAK
Okay.
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Courtney
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MAK
Moving on. Moving on. Yep. We have two September 11th events coming up. And both of them, I think, really incredible to be a part of.
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Courtney
Yes. The first one is the Memorial Bridge walk, which they start at Jock Leighton Park. There's an opening ceremony that begins at 830 and then the bridge walk. And this is, a lot of different.
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MAK
Yeah. It's a it's happening. Yeah, it's a great community event. Martin county fire rescue, firefighters, Martin County Sheriff's Office, school district is involved. I think they do a excused absence for students who want to participate. So it's it's really a lovely event.
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Courtney
It is. And then later that night there we have our nine over 11 memorial tribute ceremony.
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MAK
That's on the grounds of the Peter and Julie Cummings Library.
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Courtney
In Palm City. Right. And that's at 7 p.m.. There'll be guest speakers, bagpipers and a candle.
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MAK
It's a pretty, you know, touching doesn't really seem to heartfelt. Yeah. It's a very heartfelt event. Yes, it's we've been there for quite a few years and it's a it's a great community opportunity to just gather, remember.
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Courtney
Yes. So that is all that we have.
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MAK
That's it. We do have some events we're putting down in the show notes, of course. Yes. Things that are coming up and I don't know, we'll see you guys next week.
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Courtney
Yeah. Thank you guys for joining us. Don't forget to like follow subscribe. Put on notifications.
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MAK
Oh yeah.
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Courtney
Oh so that way you get notified when a new episode comes up.
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MAK
Okay. You stepped it up a notch.
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Courtney
I did. Oh, I don't want them to miss out on us.
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MAK
No.
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Courtney
And yeah, we'll see you guys next time.
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MAK
Okay.
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Courtney
Bye bye.