Okay, I'm gonna give it a shot to try to share my PowerPoint here. Hopefully, you can see that. Yes, we can. All right. Boy, technology is working up in interlocking today. So we wanted to, you know, do just do a brief update on the Scott fountain. Obviously, many people know it was down for most of the summer, last year, had some significant improvements done to it. And so I wanted to highlight those and kind of explain what was done to it. And hopefully this slideshow does a good job of that. One, first give out a shout out to Robert Carpenter, who is our quote unquote, fountain expert. He's run the fountain for quite some time for the Grand Prix, and is a retired DTE expert as well. So he was great help with getting these improvements done for us. The Fountain itself since it was closed this past summer, has seen funding added for improvements from both the grand Premier and the state capital outlay funding, there was over $100,000 in plumbing and engineering, as well as electrical work done $14,000 in labeling and alignment with a new user manual, so that the DNR staff could obviously learn how to operate it based on those new improvements $32,000 in safety bulkheads for the lower bowl, which I'll show some photos of. And 323,000 was allocated to structural and masonry inspections and testing. So I just wanted to talk about some of the previous lighting. These are some of the things that we discovered as we're taking things apart. And so as removals began, you can see that there are some safety issues. When you look up close, for example, some of these light fixtures, were in the wet location type of light fixtures and connections were not made inside of junction boxes. So the junction box, the left center, you know, is obviously not in a watertight box. And you can see some of the corrosion as we're taking it apart, wiring connections made outside of junction boxes. And so bringing stuff back up to electrical code, shown in the picture all the new watertight and explosion proof lighting fixtures. What the photo doesn't tell you is that that conduit, that plastic conduit that you see running to all the lights was also replaced. All the conduit under the fountain was metal, and in some cases, either rusting or non watertight connections. As you know when you're underneath 100 year old fountain, you're going to have some sort of moisture at any given time. So that's very important for worker safety. The tunnels that lead to the underneath of the lower bowl. Basically when you go down the steps, there's a door that leads to a hallway that hallway has access ports underneath the lower bowl and in the event that that lower bowl failed, the mechanical room could have flooded and as you can see some of the lighting fixtures if they were submerged would have been problematic and and we all know that water and electricity don't matter. Next, so these bulkhead doors were installed. And now should there be any sort of failure, these openings are rated to hold back the water and protect workers. So that was a really good improvement, an entirely new manual was developed. And all the valves switches and controls are now properly labeled and painted and tagged for ease of operation. As I said before, once all the electrical improvements were done, the manual was updated to assist park staff with the ease of opening and closing the fountain each year. pictured in this photo is the main fountain column. So the picture on the left hand side shows the main water column going up to that center jet. You'll notice in several different locations, including the photo to the right, some of the new conduit and labels and some of the removal of some outlets that were in the lower space of the floors that would have been susceptible to water. So a lot of electrical improvements in that right. Any previous visitors to the service area, the fountain would certainly attest to the darkness that existed as you worked in the area. And now as you can see in the photos, it's well lit both for safety of the workers and identification of working components with the fountain. Again, the overhead lighting that you see in the photo on the left is all watertight, vapor proof lighting fixtures. So again, very significant improvement. The biggest and longest thing that was waited for was the old main panels. So you can see on the left hand side photo, the old service panel sat on the ground, we had extremely old control boxes, and the pictures even show things safety features like a drip pan that was placed above a junction box. So that stuff was all removed as you can see in the photos. And the left shows those brand new main panels that were installed on the wall and above ground level. They were also wired back to the improved DTE transformer and new service coming in. And again as you can see all brand new wiring all brand new conduit and lighting in that area. Pictured here are two of the three pumps that actually run the fountain and obviously new electrical service and wires run to those pumps. On the left are those excuse me, I guess it would be on the right are those electrical control panels and cabinets that run the pumps. So when a worker goes in, for example for the morning to turn on the fountain, now it's simply a matter of checking water levels. And then to switches on those cabinets, turn them on and hit the green button and the fountain is going so certainly some vast improvements with the overall operation of the fountain day to day. Still a lot of maintenance, a lot of cleaning is required. And obviously water testing and chemical balancing and the like but I myself on the Tuesday after mother's day went down and was able to watch it get turned on it was it was pretty easy compared to what we used to have to go through. So with that said, the fountain officially opened on Mother's Day, and obviously to great fanfare a lot of folks. I don't know if you can hear the volume but this is a video so the fountain is going right now. Still a little bit of work that needs to be done here or there but the overall function and operation of the main fountain is ready to go for the summer. The Rangers have been able to turn it on daily and starting Memorial Day weekend. It will be open a little bit later in the day as of right now, usually about seven 30 We have to shut it off due to staffing. But again, Memorial Day weekend, we'll have it back open in the evening and you can go out and watch the sunset. But rangers have been turning it on basically as soon as they get to the park in the morning and shutting it off about seven 730 at night. So that is kind of the brief update. I hope it answers a lot of the questions that folks may have had with why the fountain was off for as long as it was and you were able to see some of the significant improvements that were made already.
