1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 2 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:16,460 Mm . 3 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:23,890 My name is Jeremy Spencer . I'm the 4 00:00:23,900 --> 00:00:26,190 natural resource lake manager at 5 00:00:26,190 --> 00:00:28,700 Bardwell Lake . Today . We're 6 00:00:28,710 --> 00:00:30,877 continuing our work on De watering the 7 00:00:30,877 --> 00:00:33,099 emergency spillway out here at Bardwell 8 00:00:33,099 --> 00:00:34,932 Lake . What we're doing is we're 9 00:00:34,932 --> 00:00:37,380 removing right now the layer of base in 10 00:00:37,380 --> 00:00:39,491 water that is down below the concrete 11 00:00:39,491 --> 00:00:41,602 structure of the emergency spillway . 12 00:00:41,602 --> 00:00:43,824 We're doing that in order to be able to 13 00:00:43,824 --> 00:00:47,190 inspect the basin walls as well as 14 00:00:47,190 --> 00:00:49,460 inspect the spillway chute itself . 15 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:51,727 Inspect the baffle blocks that they're 16 00:00:51,727 --> 00:00:53,840 located down there and do it cleaning 17 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:55,840 out of what is the basin below the 18 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,310 spillway . This emergency spillway is 19 00:00:59,310 --> 00:01:01,532 actually unique , and it's only spilled 20 00:01:01,532 --> 00:01:03,588 once in the lifetime of this . . The 21 00:01:03,588 --> 00:01:06,580 dam was impounded in 1964 . And the 22 00:01:06,580 --> 00:01:08,469 only one time that this emergency 23 00:01:08,469 --> 00:01:10,760 spillway was activated was in 2015 . 24 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:13,870 This is the problem . Mhm . My name is 25 00:01:13,870 --> 00:01:15,950 Brendan Brown , and I work for Texas 26 00:01:15,950 --> 00:01:18,172 Parks and Wildlife out of Tyler and the 27 00:01:18,172 --> 00:01:20,283 Kills and spills team coordinator for 28 00:01:20,283 --> 00:01:22,561 Region to , um it's my job , basically , 29 00:01:22,561 --> 00:01:24,672 to help protect aquatic resources and 30 00:01:24,672 --> 00:01:26,839 public waters in the state . Um , that 31 00:01:26,839 --> 00:01:28,894 job is twofold . I'm responsible for 32 00:01:28,894 --> 00:01:30,950 helping people obtain the permitting 33 00:01:30,950 --> 00:01:33,172 they need to relocate aquatic resources 34 00:01:33,172 --> 00:01:33,170 that are in danger from the work that 35 00:01:33,170 --> 00:01:35,660 they're doing . And the other half of 36 00:01:35,660 --> 00:01:37,827 my job is to record incidents where we 37 00:01:37,827 --> 00:01:39,993 do have injuries and damages deficient 38 00:01:39,993 --> 00:01:42,590 wildlife . My name is Marty Underwood . 39 00:01:42,590 --> 00:01:44,701 I am the Trinity Region Environmental 40 00:01:44,701 --> 00:01:46,701 stewardship business line manager . 41 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,062 Flood Bridges Management is our primary 42 00:01:50,062 --> 00:01:51,840 mission , but the environmental 43 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:53,951 stewardship mission is just important 44 00:01:53,951 --> 00:01:56,460 in regards to the D water . As , uh , 45 00:01:56,470 --> 00:01:59,530 the FRM team is using pumps to remove 46 00:01:59,530 --> 00:02:01,752 the water from the stilling basin . The 47 00:02:01,752 --> 00:02:05,240 shoreline recedes and the muscles the 48 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,840 freshwater mussels are exposed . And as 49 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,560 they're exposed , we muck around the 50 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,616 mud , crawl around the mud to get to 51 00:02:12,616 --> 00:02:14,560 them , and we usually just use our 52 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:16,782 hands and put them in buckets or bags . 53 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,890 We we i d the muscle and we count 54 00:02:20,890 --> 00:02:23,360 them and we put them back in the lake . 55 00:02:26,740 --> 00:02:29,350 We are obliged to 56 00:02:30,140 --> 00:02:33,460 remove all the treasured aquatic 57 00:02:33,460 --> 00:02:36,300 resources in the state of Texas when we 58 00:02:36,300 --> 00:02:39,870 d water these stilling basins . I like 59 00:02:39,870 --> 00:02:42,037 to thank Texas parks in my life . Over 60 00:02:42,037 --> 00:02:44,092 the years , I've built a really good 61 00:02:44,092 --> 00:02:46,203 relationship with them and they trust 62 00:02:46,203 --> 00:02:49,010 us and , uh , we worked cooperatively 63 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,262 to get the job done . I'd like to thank 64 00:02:51,262 --> 00:02:53,151 Bragging Brown with the Kills and 65 00:02:53,151 --> 00:02:55,373 spills team out of Tyler for helping us 66 00:02:55,373 --> 00:02:56,373 on Thursday . 67 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:04,050 Mhm .