Today begins week three and also a different externship. We worked with Carey Promes today. He works in the City Engineers office under Randy Krauel. Carey will pretty much be our boss for the final weeks of this summer externship. We started today with a briefing about all the previously data collected for the city, and we started to develop a plan of how best to start collecting the new data. We learned how to use a gps/survey pole. We were issued "official reflective vests" to wear while working on our retro-fitted golf cart. (We have to have a special bracket attached to the golf cart in order to keep the gps pole vertical and collect part of the necessary data for the city.) It has been a pretty busy day.
Tomorrow, the real work starts....We can not wait. We will actually be out on the city streets measuring and collecting data about all the sidewalk ramps in Carroll. We have several piece of data to collect at every ramp including slope, width, whether there is an indicator mat in the sidewalk, ramp dimensions, landing dimensions, etc. All the data will be going into an excel document for the city to get organized and prioritize necessary fixes.
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