Good morning Franklin I'm Eric Stuckey your city administrator it's Monday so it must be time for
the top three things you need to know this week so I've got my handy data posted to help me here
and we are out here on Carothers parkway on franklin's southeast side and we're right by
the Robinson lake site and the future site of our southeast park that is underway we're building
some infrastructure right now but a project has kind of popped up in recent months that relates to
this important project and I have with me Shahad Abdulrahman she is a staff engineer at the city
of franklin and she's the project manager of this project and so tell us a little bit about
what's going on with Robinson lake and the dam and the work that's going on right now yeah we
have discovered recently a depression behind the dam and we brought together an emergency team with
the city to um to fix the problem and we have been working with cdm smith is our consultant and civil
constructors is our contractor we came up with a plan to alleviate pressure from the dam to
due to the sinkhole that we discovered to keep it safe for the community until we proceed with
the remaining work of the park which will not start until at least six more months right now
the contractors are back there they are cleaning and clearing the area and grabbing and lining the
channel we will be setting two six-inch pipes to siphon water from the lake to the river
so we will be alleviating the pressure that way from the dam it will be going one foot per day
down one foot per day that way the dam can still handle that pressure and the change in pressure
we are keeping an eye on the temperature of the harpist river we are keeping an eye on the oxygen
level to protect the wildlife in the river okay great so it is an emergency repair but it actually
is work we plan to do anyway because that dam needed to be upgraded and bolstered and so this
is not really throwaway work it's work we plan to do we're doing a little sooner than planned
because of this need but uh that's it so uh we are doing some things to to help the aquatic life
that's gonna be impacted so tell talk a little bit about what we're doing there yeah so we worked
closely with tdec and the Tennessee fish and wildlife folks to make sure that the fish that
are already in the lake will be relocated safely and also protect the wildlife the diverse wildlife
that we have at the Harpeth river so we are watching the temperature and the oxygen levels
and we will also be relocating the fish from the lake to other lakes around the parks at the city
and we will be documenting that process as well when it happens all right great thank
you Shahad thanks for your great work on this and many other projects all right so some fish may be
getting some new homes that say harlinsdale or Jim warren some of those other areas so
look out for that all right so that's item number one item number two is uh important update I
gave you some bad information a week ago I said a date wrong uh related to the BOMA or the alderman
elections that are coming up that election is running uh election day is October 26th
and then we've got early voting from October 6th that's where I messed up I said the wrong date
last time October 6th through October 21st you can do early voting at the election commission
offices or the county offices on west main street in franklin so that's early voting there and then
you can still register to vote between now and September 27th another thing the city has done
to help get you good information about the election process is we can uh dedicate it or
created a uh alderman election web page for you so you can just go to franklinton.gov
click on the alderman election billboard that's on there runs across the top of the
the screen there on the website and you can get all the information about registering uh you'll
be voting for both your ward alderman and the remaining two years of the at-large alderman term
it's the c alderman seat that pearl Bransford the late pearl Bransford had been in so we're
filling the last two years of that term as well so you have two folks to vote for there so that's
item number two item number three yes we've had a lot of festivals we have a new one coming up this
weekend at Harlinsdale farm is the first franklin pride festival and that will run from 1 p.m. to
6 p.m. at Harlinsdale this Saturday you can go to franklinpridetn.com to get more information
group of citizens have come forward and once want to have our first ever pride uh festival event at
Harlinsdale so come on check that out you'll get music and food and all the typical great festival
activities as well go check that out and and that's a exciting new event in franklin so those
are your top three things Robinson lake repairs are well underway and you got a good update there
the BOMA election or alderman election for ward alderman and the remaining two years
of the at-large seat is underway you can go to franklintn.gov and get lots of information about
that and then finally this Saturday from 1 p.m. to 6 is the franklin pride festival
at Harlinsdale farm that's it for this week stay well and stay safe and have a great week take care