Posted by Mike (WA) on September 17, 2010 at 02:49:13 from (97.113.250.170):
Son is a highway engineer- he invited me to meet him for dinner at local restaurant tonite, after he got off work.
As I got there, he was on cell phone- I heard only one side of the conversation, and it was hilarious: "Yeah, I need 4 laborers with wet suits. Well, I don't know- maybe we'll have to rent them. Whatever. No, the biologist says she has her own snorkel gear. She didn't say anything about a wet suit- maybe she'll have a bikini. No, we have to do this. Its in the protocol. I know its silly, but if we try to dodge it and DOE [dept. of ecology] shows up, we'll all be looking for work."
Turns out they're placing big boulders along a riverbank where the river is threatening a highway- They're not dropping them, they're placing them with a big excavator with a thumb- but before they start, they have these 4 guys in wetsuits with a net, on the side of the river. The two in the middle walk the net out into the river, and the two at the end stay on the shore. The idea is that they "fence" the fish out of the work area.
Biologist with snorkel swims around by the net- if she sees any fish in the work area (behind the net), she shuts the whole operation down until they can re-do the fence out operation again. So they don't accidentally place a boulder on a fish.
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