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Moved again to Kansas to do the same again. The communities in Kansas are Junction City, Geary County; Chapman, Enterprise, Abilene, Solomon, Dickinson County; New Cambria, Salina, Saline County; Ellsworth; Hays, Ellis, Ellis County; McPherson, Moundridge, McPherson County; Harvey County, Clearwater, Haysville, Kechi; Garfield; Bazine, and Ness City. Neil was involved as the Study Contractor (SC), and Greenhorne & O’Mara as the Technical Evaluation Contractor (TEC) reviewed many of these studies. Having been involved with the Salina and Saline County Flood Insurance Studies, while at Bucher, Willis & Ratliff, Salina, the City of Salina contracted for a study to evaluate how Wilson & Company’s South Salina Drainage Study would change the Salina / Saline County Flood Insurance Studies, if built. Three phases of work were proposed, and the changes in the FEMA FIS for each phase were shown. This study was submitted by Neil to FEMA and the Kansas City District, Corps of Engineers for review. FEMA issued a Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR) for the South Salina area. The CLOMR said, if the improvements were made, the FEMA maps would change. In the FIS for Saline and Saline County, the Kansas City District, Corps of Engineers, certified the Salina levees as providing 100-year flood protection, without the required 3-ft of freeboard. In preparing the FIS’s, Neil field surveyed the x-sectons along Dry Creek used for the Dry Creek detailed study. During the spring floods in 2007 on Dry Creek and Mulberry Creek, the freeboard question came into play, when a 100-year discharge caused the levee openings along Dry Creek and Mulberry Creek to be sandbagged close, and Ohio Street closed. This shows that the Salina levee protection system can not be certified for FEMA 100-yr protection. Laid-off for un-published ‘Letter to the Editor” to the Salina Journal, due to pressure from City Engineering Office of no future work to consulting firm. About ten years later two men were electroced in Salina flooding. Was trying to look out for the Health, Welfare, and Safety of the Public.

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Flood / Floodplain Engineer, Hydrology / Hydraulic Engineer, Water System Distribution Engr, Landfill Engineer, NRCS TSP Certified, Site Work and Utilities

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