Rosa Ladder Install YIN

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Objective

The objective of this project is to add PIT Tag detection in the adult fish ladder at the Rosa Irrigation Dam. The dam is located on the Yakima river between Yakima Wa. and Ellensburg Wa. The facility is operated by the US Bureau of Reclamation. The PIT tag system will be installed in cooperation between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Yakama Indian Nation. PSMFC has been asked to oversee the installation and provide technical guidance and support during the installation to help ensure the PIT-tag system will operated with minimal maintenance and high detection rates. A total of three "Pass Through" antennas will be installed and will be fabricated by Biomark Inc.

Project Information

Construction work window: June 1, 2007 through April 1, 2007.

Agencies involved performing installation:

  • US Bureau of Reclamation. (USBOR)Contact Name: Richard Corkins.
  • Yakima Indian Nation.(YIN)Contact: Mark Johnston.
  • Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. (PSMFC)Contacts: Scott Livingston, Don Warf, Darren Chase.
  • Various sub-contractors.

General: H-S contracting

Scope of Work by Agency

Yakama Indian Nation will provide

  • Funding for the entire project and all components required for a complete system.
  • Provide data collection computers as specified by PSMFC.
  • Provide UPS's for data collection platform.
  • Provide qty of (4) FS-1001A transceivers.
  • Provide 4 FO modems with modem nest.

US Bureau of Reclamation will

  • Modify 3 of the ladder weirs for installation of the antennas. The over-fall sections of the weir walls are to be retro-fitted for the pass through antennas. Note,these weirs do not have underflow orifices.
  • Mount 2 electrical enclosures on pillar wall for transceivers.
  • Mount 3 intermediate 16 x 16 SS boxes on ladder wall.
  • Route conduits from the detection location to the location of the new PIT-tag room.
  • Pull in all necessary electrical to the transceiver enclosures. Total of 2 separate circuits.
  • Install all fiber optic cables and components. Total of 1,(6) strand bundle and 1, (12) strand bundle.
  • Install ST style connectors, PSMFC will terminate all fiber ends.
  • Construct a 6 x 8 foot insulated building with concrete floor and insulated walls.
  • Include an air conditioner adequate enough to cool the room during the summer months.
  • Install Communications (HSIP) panel in room.
  • Install all electrical circuits and outlets as directed by PSMFC.

Biomark Inc.

  • Provide qty of (4) prefabricated antennas per the dimensions and specifications as outlined by PSMFC.
  • Facilitate the installation of the antennas to ensure that they are in good working order.

PSMFC

  • Provide quality assurance of the installation from start to finish.
  • Facilitate the coordination between contractors and different agencies.
  • Install and configure the data collection platform and associated circuitry.
  • Function test entire system. Document and resolve deficiencies.
  • Operate and maintain the system post installation.

Journal

Meeting notes taken during the walk through with USBOR, YIN, PSMFC and Biomark on Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 at Rosa Dam.

  • Mark indicated that all funding is available and that procurement of components can start immediately.
  • Biomark to start antenna design and fabrication. Anthony Carson indicated that the soonest the antennas could be delivered would be late august. Mark J indicated that late July would be preferable and was pushing hard for this delivery date. Anthony indicated that he would try and make this request.
  • Mark said that he would put the bid for the building on street at the end of June.
  • The ladder/antenna drawing provided by PSMFC had to be modified due to flow requirments through the ladder. Mark indicated that the top of the weir walls need to be 3 inches lower than top of the ladder sides in case of high water conditions. This will contain the water to the ladder and prevent overflow.
  • The transciever/UPS enclosures will be 30 x 30 x 8 in size and 2 will be bolted together out at the ladder with a 2" chase bushing.
  • Corkey to start setting the grade near the location of the transceiver enclosures an continue to procuring various components.
  • Corkey will be gone starting July 1st and wont be available until Sept. 1st.
  • Most of the work required at the ladder will be done during the month of June.

END OF MINUTES.

Scottl 11:34, 14 June 2007 (PDT)Mark Johnstone indicated that the purchase of the computers and other PIT tag room accessories do not have to be purchased until April of 08.

Scottl 10:06, 20 June 2007 (PDT)Per Corky, he will try and start hanging panels at the ladder the week of June 25th. Per Mark J. The ladder weir walls will be cut for antenna placement in early August when the ladder is dewatered. If Biomark cannot provide the antennas at that time, then mark will request a dummy antenna to insert in the cutout until the production antennas are delivered.

Scottl 14:11, 11 July 2007 (PDT) Corky starting to hang panels and conduits. Not sure why he is back on the job so soon. UPS's should be 11 x 7 to fit 3 in 1 enclosure.

Scottl 09:25, 17 July 2007 (PDT)Walked trough the site with Corky and discussed the following.

  • The 2-30 x 30 enclosures for the transceivers will not be bolted together. There is no need for this given the installation and no syncing of the transceivers will be necessary. A 2 inch nipple will be used for passing through the fiber and power with Meyers hubs. There will be 2 transceivers in the upstream enclosure and 1 in the downstream enclosure.
  • The 3 ups's will all be contained in one 30 x 30.
  • 2 Ground rods will be driven to make the isolated grounding scheme. The issue here is that there maybe concrete underneath the soil where the proposed grounds are to be located. Not sure how well this is going to pan out or what the alternative will be if this is the case.
  • To ensure that the isolated ground remains isolated, a neutral ground buss will be installed. This will have insulated bushings that provides the isolation between the back panel's and power ground.
  • The weir walls are scheduled to be cut somewhere between August 15th and the 30th. Will talk to Biomark and find out what the antenna delivery schedule is. If the delivery schedule cannot be met, then blanks of some kind will need to be provided in the interim.
  • Unclear as to when the PIT tag building slab will be poured. Corky suggested that for HVAC, we purchase a self contained heating and cooling system for the ease of installation.
  • Need to provide Corky a basic layout of the entire conduit/grounding and wiring scheme.
  • Corky will be working on the project on and off for the rest of the month. The earliest he will be available will be is September 1st.
  • Called Anthony from Biomark and wanted to discuss antenna delivery schedules. Anthony indicated that the copolymer in the grey color is not available and asked if we could use the black style. He indicated that they use this type of material in all of there installations. Scott told him to go ahead with this and get the material on order.

Scottl 09:49, 8 August 2007 (PDT) Current Project Status.

  • Saw cutting of the Wier walls is scheduled between Aug 27 and Sept 2. Starting construction of the PIT tag room will also begin around that time.
  • Biomark indicates that the antennas will be ready for installation by Sept 2, Expect to take 1 to 2 day's for entire antenna installation given no problems incurred during the course of the installation.
  • Currently, the UPS and transciever enclosures are in place along with the 3 intermediate boxes for the antenna cables. Conduits from these boxes to the xcvrs has been installed.
  • Mark J indicated that we could explore a more robust method of data and communications, satellite and POTs comms for redundancy.
  • Install for the antennas will be the week of Sept 3rd given unforseen circumstances.
  • Called Mark and left a message regarding the need for crane support to lower the antennas into the ladder.
  • Provided Mark J with purchasing information on the UPS's from CDW.
  • Scott to drill and tapp back panels in the next week or so.

Scottl 10:01, 27 August 2007 (PDT)

  • Slab for the PIT room has been poured on Sat. Aug. 25th. 07.
  • Saw cutting of the wier walls is scheduled for Wed. Aug. 29th. 07.
  • Biomark to start the installation of the antennas on Set. 5th and 6th, PSMFC to help facilitate the installation in order to keep the labor cost down.
  • Scott to prep back panels on Tuesday Aug. 28th. 07.

Scottl 09:13, 31 August 2007 (PDT)

  • Current Status:
  • PIT tag bldg is framed in and constuction continues
  • Weir Walls have been cut,re-framed and concrete poured.
  • Back panels are on-site and awaiting installation and wiring.
  • Trench for FO is being dug and conduit will be laid.
  • Antenna installation will start on Thursday, Sept. 6th. Biomark to travel on the 5th.
  • Project that PIT data will start to be collected no later than Friday, Sept. 7th

Scottl 07:42, 5 September 2007 (PDT)

  • Antennas are to installed on Thursday, Sept 6th.
  • PIT room framing has been completed. Note that the dimensions are 8' by 8'. This was a mistake by Scott. The PIT room will be very cramped due to this but will accommodate for all equipment necessary.
  • Expect to have PIT detection and buffered data by end of day, Friday, 7th Sept.
  • Finalization of the PIT room will be in October when Corky returns from vacation.

Scottl 15:10, 18 September 2007 (PDT) The antennas and transceivers were installed and tested on Sept. 6 and 7. The ladder watered up at 1015 am 9/7 and the transceivers were collecting PIT data at 11:00 hrs on Setp 9,07. No issues with installation, stick testing of the system will commence the following week. PIT tag room equipment installation will be random for the month of September.
Scottl 15:58, 2 October 2007 (PDT) The PIT tag room construction has been completed. All 3-channel infrastructure can be installed at any time. Corky from the BOR will be back on the project possibly by the week of Oct 15th to install the fiber optic cable and install all the electrical in the PIT room. Suspect that automated uploads and project completion will be around Nov.1st. Buffered data was manually retrieved and submitted to Dave Marvin for processing.
Scottl 07:59, 25 October 2007 (PDT) The final phase of construction has been completed. PIT-tag room has been completed and communications to and from the transceivers back to the data collection platform has been established. Automated data uploads to PTAGIS was instantiated at 1:32 pm (PST) on October 24th, 2007. Below is a brief punch list of pending issues.

  • Spec computers for Mark by April 1st,08.
  • Check with the phone company about conditioning the line and getting phone service to the back up computer.
  • Pull line in for the telephone.
  • Re-visit the FO terminations on the 6-strand. Check final polishing and re-do if necessary.
  • Get with Biomark and check status of spare antenna.

E-Mail Trails from Biomark

Scottl 09:52, 20 June 2007 (PDT)
Scott,

Attached are the adjusted dimension for the Rosa Dam Antennas. The changes reflect the thickness of the antenna from 5.5" to 8" on all side. The reasons for the increase is to allow for a more dense field in the center of the coil, help reduce noise caused by shield vibration near the coil, and a more stable antenna. These effects my be minimal but you guys (PSMFC) have enough experience to tell the difference. Also, with the height of the walls the increased width will help get a better angle on the inner welds.

The sketch gives OD measurements based off the drawings you sent earlier. The sketch shows the changes needed in order for the concrete work to move forward while the rest of the antenna is being developed. I mentioned in the notes there should be a 1/2" spacing between the antenna and the concrete on all sides to help with expansion/contraction, imperfection in concrete/antenna, and the welds that connect the front flange to the rest on the antenna. Rubber shims can be used to fill any gaps. The bolt pattern is based off 1/2" inch "Redhead" wedge anchors. This will put the anchors 4" in from the edge of the concrete with approx. 13" between anchors (max work load requires 3 15/16 from edge and 7 7/8 spacing) which is plenty. The size and quantity is more for vibration and robust threads (installation and removal multiple times). The anchoring and bolt pattern can change if needed. We have used an "acorn" style nut on exposed anchors in the passed. The flange does not have a counter sink plate to hide the nuts once mounted.

The plastic/cables are on order and the shields will be ordered by 6/19/07. I will forward any changes to the 2" flex conduit we agreed on during the site visit (Prosser design). I think we can come up with a better way but until we agree on something I will continue to use the Prosser design. A cap box will be mounted on the top side of the antenna, centered front/back and left/right. The dimensions are not final but should be around 5" x 5" x 9". Both the exciter cable and ground cable will be attached to the capacitor box that can be accessed from the top. I will send you an example of each cable so you can comment before the design is final. Let me know if you have a schedule for the concrete cutting or delivery of antennas. We will begin manufacturing antennas as soon as the parts arrive.

I will be on the road next week but call me with any questions. I will also be checking my email when available.

Thanks,

Anthony Carson

Images and Drawings

Image:Visio-XCVR UPS EnclosureConduits.pdf

Image:ODDimensions.pdf

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