Cedar Creek Omaha (F&W)

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Cedar Creek Omaha (F&W) Restoration Information

Background: The Cedar Creek (Omaha F&W) – Platte River Right Bank Levee System was damaged during the 2019 Flood Event, leading to the Project Sponsor submitting a Public Law (PL) 84-99 Rehabilitation Assistance request to the US Army Corps of Engineers – Omaha District.

Current Action: Close out the construction contract.

Restoration Activities:

	Full Repair Contract
Contractor	Midwest Construction from Nebraska City, NE
Contract Amount	$1,343,000
Contract Award	October 4, 2019
Construction Start	Late October 2019
Completion	December 12, 2019

Status Updates:

10 January 2020 - Work on the Cedar Creek levee repair contract is complete.

18 December 2019 - Work on the Cedar Creek levee repair contract is complete with final inspection occurring on 12 December 2019. The team is currently working on closing out the contract.

06 December 2019 - The contractor is currently 97 percent complete with levee repair work. The pre-final inspection was conducted on 25 November 2019 with final inspection tentatively scheduled for the week of 09 December 2019.

22 November 2019 - The contractor is placing riprap and bedding materials at two of the three damage locations, seeding the third damage location and is expected to be substantially complete with repairs by the end of the month.

08 November 2019 - The contractor mobilized to the site on 30 October 2019 and has begun work on repairing the levee.

24 October 2019 - The pre-construction team meeting was held on 16 October 2019 with notice to proceed issued on the same day. The contractor is scheduled to mobilize to the site to begin repairs on 28 October 2019.

13 October 2019 - Pre-construction team meeting is scheduled for the week of 14 October 2019, at which time it is anticipated notice to proceed with repairs will be issued and the contractor can begin the repair work.

04 October 2019 – The levee repair contract was awarded to Midwest Construction of Nebraska City, NE in the amount of $1,343,000 on 04 October 2019. The repair is estimated to be complete in mid April 2020.

27 September 2019 – Funds to repair the Cedar Creek levee system have been received. The construction contract is scheduled to be awarded by 04 October 2019.

13 September 2019 – The bid opening occurred on 04 Sep 2019. It is anticipated that this project will be awarded within a few weeks, pending receipt of project funding from USACE HQ.

04 September 2019 – Correction. The bid opening was conducted on 04 Sep 2019 and the team is anticipating awarding the construction contract by mid-to-late September.

29 August 2019 – A construction contract to repair the Cedar Creek levee system was advertised to pre-qualified contractors on 21 August 2019 with award anticipated around 04 September 2019. The pre-qualified contractors conducted a site visit on 29 August 2019 to view the scope of work on site in order to make an accurate bid.

23 August 2019 – The team is on scheduled to be done with the E&D process late summer. The project was advertised to the pre-qualified Contractor Pool on 21 August 2019 with award anticipated around 04 September 2019.

05 August 2019 – Engineering and Design (E&D) work continues for rehabilitating the Cedar Creek levee system. The team is still anticipating to be done with the E&D process by late summer.

16 July 2019 – An initial site damage assessment and economic analysis has been completed. From this initial assessment the USACE team has determined that there are damages to the levee system that are eligible for PL 84-99 Rehabilitation Assistance. Engineering and Design (E&D) work is on-going for rehabilitating the Cedar Creek Levee System. The team is anticipating to be done with the E&D process for repairing the damage identified by the late-summer 2019.

NOAA River Level Observations & Forecasts

NOAA Water Gauge Levels

Cedar Creek Omaha (F&W) Levee Imagery

Final inspection of Cedar Creek levee repair, Dec. 12, 2019

Cedar Creek Plan In-hand Review Aug. 7, 2019

USACE Engineering and Construction Team and the Local Levee Sponsor conducting the Plan In-Hand Review on the Cedar Creek Levee Aug. 7, 2019.

Cedar Creek levee May 16, 2019

Erosion and scour along the riverside channel bank extending into the levee section at Cedar Creek levee May 16, 2019.

Cedar Creek levee May 16, 2019

Minor damage to the levee crest due to high water overtopping the Cedar Creek levee May 16, 2019.

Cedar Creek Site Visit Aug. 29, 2019

Pre-qualified contractors conduct a site visit at the Cedar Creek levee on Aug. 29, 2019 to view the scope of work on site in order to make an accurate bid.

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MHSRS 2024: Dr. Alyssa Davidson

Defense Health Agency

Aug. 26, 2024 | 3:38

The Military Health Research Symposium honors Dr. Alyssa Davidson, a research audiologist at Walter Reed Medical Center, for her outstanding research in hearing and audiology research in service members and veterans. Notably, she created a standardized test for clinicians to administer across the MHS that tests hearing using a simple tablet and headphones, which collects data across the MHS.

Dr. Davidson, who holds both AuD and PhD degrees from the University of Arizona, first came to Walter Reed as contractor in 2022 after spending two years as a post-doctoral research fellow at Northwestern University. Just one year later, in 2023, she was brought on board as a DoD Civilian in the Audiology and Speech Center at Walter Reed. In just that short period of time, her strong work ethic and her skill for leveraging new technologies to improve clinical practices have led to major advances in Audiology treatment within the DoD. Although she has made progress in many areas, the most fundamental advancement that she has made in the last year was to analyze data from more than 22,583 Service Members that was collected as part of a DHA grant (W81XWH1820014) to develop normative values for the hearing subscale of the Tinnitus and Hearing Survey (THS-H). The THS was developed in 2015 by the VA and has been in widespread use in DoD, VA, and Civilian audiology clinics. However, the THS was designed to be used to guide treatment prioritization. Normative values were not provided that would enable a clinician to look at the hearing subscale score (the THS-H) and determine if a patient with a hearing complaint score of “15” was an abnormally large, abnormally small, or an average score among SMs with similar audiometric thresholds. In her paper, Dr. Davidson provides separate percentile scores for SMs based on their audiometric thresholds (normal hearing, other H1, H2, or H3). By analyzing responses and establishing a cutoff score of 27 for clinically significant hearing problems, Dr. Davidson’s work provides clinicians with a quick and reliable way to identify patients with hearing thresholds in the normal range who may require additional audiological evaluation and management. As a direct result of the work Dr. Davison was involved in to analyze the THS-H, a decision was made to incorporate the THS-H questionnaire as part of the Military Operational Hearing Test (MOHT), which was first adopted as an acceptable auditory fitness-for-duty test in the US Army in December, 2022 and fully implemented as the only acceptable fitness-for-duty test in December, 2023. As part of the rollout of the MOHT, a tablet-based TabSINT MOHT App was developed that allowed the MOHT to be automatically administered through the auxiliary input of a calibrated audiometer (effectively replacing the CD player that is usually used for speech testing). This tablet also incorporated an electronic version of the THS-H, as well as the capability of providing the provider with the patient’s percentile score on the THS-H based on the numbers in Dr. Davidson’s 2023 paper. The MOHT app also provided a way to use optical scanning technology to scan the THS-H score, along with the rest of the MOHT score, into the DoD-wide Enterprise Clinical Audiology Application (ECAA) database. This optical scanning technology works by showing a Quick Response (QR) code on the screen of the tablet that is scanned into the ECAA using a standard barcode scanner.