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Good morning. This hearing of the subcommittee on readiness and management will come to order. Subcommittee meets today to receive testimony from undersecretary defense for acquisition and sustainment, ellen lord concerning supply chain integrity fourth apartment of defense in the United States. Since her initial confirmation as the under secretary of defense secretary lord has oversensitive give acquisition reform at the department of defense and i am sure we will talk about some of that today. As the u. S. National armament director she has traveled to see the u. S. Throughout the u. S. And the to see our allies and partners with regards to the development and Manufacturing Activities around the world and unfortunately has seen how reliant the u. S. Defense Industrial Base chain has become particularly as it ....
Esthetic, and then Energy Recovery as well. I also wanted to show you this just to provide you a snapshot from our actual design model because we did design it in a bama 3d model to get you to appreciate the complexity. I showed you the pretty aboveground structures. I want you to see what the contractor has to face. Basically when you look at this, all the different colors represent different waste streams, whether its treated and untreated sludge, wastewater, chemicals, all being laid adjacent to each other. Remember, im connecting to the existing Wastewater Treatment plant and i also wanted to point out you see those vertical looking piles on the bottom of each buildings, those are piles and based on the last count i got theres 132,000 piles to go along with the 220 cubic yards of soil that are going to be excavated. Remember the digesters in the buildings are 65fee ....
Good afternoon. Im carolyn shoe and im the senior project manager for the biosolids digester facilities project. So the biosolids digester facilities project is the largest project in the sfip. Here is an aerial of the southeast plant. As you know, it is a critical portion of our infrastructure, providing treatment for close to 80 of the citys wastewater and stormwater, but also one of our oldest facilities. So the purpose of this project is to completely replace the aging facilities and construct new facilities adjacent to the existing plant as shown here in the blue outline. Basically through this project were rebuilding one half of the southeast plant. So with this project we have a rare opportunity in front of us to really build from the ground up, basically start off a blank page for these facilities. So basically were you know, we went through a robust planning process where we identified and addressed future and longterm operations and regulatory needs. We had applied modern, mo ....