it will take several seasons to excavate the remains of an entire household and several decades to excavatere community. the community buried beneath the sugar cane of ceren may one day be unearthed. but other sites in the maya region offer what ceren lacks -- evidence of ancient households easily seen on the surface. mira, arturo. una, dos, tres piedras. keach: here in honduras, a survey team combs the copan valley. their trained eyes recognize mounds of grass-covered stones as the remnants of ancient maya dwellings. okay. there's the road. mm-hmm. this...here's where we came in -- a small road. and we walked around this way, and we walked over into this pasture. and so this site is right about here, right on this little hill. keach: the copan valley lies 100 kilometers north of ceren. in 1975, archaeologists began a complete survey of the valley on foot. after 10 years of painstaking work, they have discovered the remains of 4,500 structures. más a usted... cinco centímetros. keach: archaeologist william sanders has been leading excavations in the copan valley since 1980. sanders: we deci

the goal is april, 2014 to be completely done with excavation and bracing, but before then there will be a lot of follow on work starting. we are in good shape right now. is it right to the day? not exactly. but when you are looking 18 months out. >> how about the projected budget? >> there has been change orders to the team and i know that the budget is on for discussion coming up to better addressed at that time and there are nature unforescene requests with the work that we are working on but in general it is in the parameters. i would like to say great job to web corp and the contractors and the hard work to get to where we are with this butress and coordinating the work and the safety record. it is really a big tribute to all of the guys out there in the field. any other questions? >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and finally, directors, i did want to mention that tomorrow we are going to issue a call for the committee, and we will have 7 seats and the applications will be due on march 13th. and that will be on our website >> that concludes my report. >> we will open it t

excavation, moving towards the east. and the overview picture, you can see considerably more work has been done in zone 3. the first level of bracing is complete and they are starting to work on the second level. just some highlights working down between the micro pile contractor and among the bracing at the far west end, the lower right-hand photograph shows you what is left after the micro piles are complete. those are the tensioning rods that run through the middle of the micro pile and will tie into the slab that will be poured in the below-grade structure and affect that whole down progress or the whole down design on the mat slab. zone 2 continuing bracing and excavation. they have gotten to 1st street in the left-hand picture. zone 3 they are excavating under the fremont bridge. the archaeologists are always on standby and those are areas that hadn't been disturbed in the top surface and they continue to find little things in that. and the overall picture of the east end where the buttress work is going on. the re

bracing will be installed in several layers as we begin the excavation to stiffen the structure. now, this construction method requires no external shoring, no tie backs, no intrusion into neighboring properties. inside the retrieval shaft, any entrapped water that would be entrapped by the process will be pumped out while the excavation proceeds or is in progress. and we've utilized information from borings performed in 2008 by the property owner's engineering consultant and combined that with boring reports that were prepared by city consultants to assess the existing soil and groundwater conditions. at both locations, what we found via the soil borings was that the ground consists of several feet of clay, sand above a very dense silty sand. this slide addresses the information in the carp letter prepared at the request of the group that opposes the central subway. i want to make it very clear that the city's plan for excavation of the pagoda palace site differs substantially from the plan described by mr. carp. mr. carp incorrectly describes the depth of the proposed retrieval

i am more concerned about the excavation done. now granted it's been done. the issue is and for our check list if it's more than 2 feet in a archaeological sensitive area it needs review and if it's more than 8 feet of that and needs environmental review. it needs to receive that. that is a couple of weeks to do environmental review for that. again it's 90% done at this point. >> i'm sorry.

as for the third permit which is -- it show a massive excavations. what the permit application does not tell you that they're taking a very small one car garage at the corner of jackson and presidio and they are extending that all the way back to the back wall of the original building to house five cars. now, to do that obviously they will have to totally destroy the floor on the lower level, so they also extended that all the way back to the rear wall to add additional space and room and such. in order to have bedrooms and the space and that excavated area they need new windows for those rooms. this assembling a 1915 building so potential historic resource so you have all new windows in the lower level which would have possibly change the kaish of this potential resources. under the normal circumstances if the total scope of the project was presented to the planning department it would have to under go environmental review as well as historic resource evaluation. this particular project has a series of five permits, six permits, and they have -- goi

and we also did a lot of work on the buttress shoring and excavation front. the wall was completed around the perimeter of the site. 1 15 plus cross-lot bracing struts were installed and 275,000 cubic yards were instadto-date. as you know the first in fremont temporary bridges were installed both memorial day and labor day weekend and both of these installation occurred ahead of schedule and without incident. speaking of, that we're proud of fact with respect to the construction, we're putting a lot of people to work. on any given day on average we have 195 construction worksers on-site. approximately 475,000 trade hours completed in 20 is it 21 alone with 718,000 hours completed to-date including the temp terminal. you can see the safety statisticks for 2012 alone. so we're very proud of the work we're doing both in terms of putting people to work and our safety record. on the bus ramps and you will hear more about that a little later. seize nick design crate you and structural type selection was approved by caltrans. we have 100% design completed. the const

so that completion date for the over all excavation has been moved out. and you will see as i mentioned a little later, a revised schedule that we are currently managing where a number of those intermediate milestones were characterized as the completion of the elements of scope have been moved out. but by resequencing the over all work, and we are still maintaining the october, 2017 completion for construction. so, kind of in real quick terms, what is happening with the substructure construction is that is going to start at the far western end where steve described that we are installing the map slab now and moved from east to west and then as the structural steel work begins, that is going to begin at column line ten of the building which is roughly where shaw,alliliy is. as it moves from east to west, what is going to happen is the excavation in zone four will be completed as the concrete moves from east to west and as that comes up the steep will be moving from west to east and we will catch up and through that sequencing of construction, web corp has

mexican archaeologist angel garcia cook, excavated the cave with macneish. cook is now director of the mexican institute of archaeology. yeah, que bueno, yes, el tipo flaco. flaco. keach: this projectile point indicates that this cave was occupied at the same time as purron cave, about 5000 b.c. clues to the diet of the cave's ancient residents also began turning up. interpreter: this is a piece of maguey that was cooked over a fire and then chewed. it was a species of cactus that they chewed and then spat out. sometimes you can see the mark of people's teeth on these quids. so maguey was clearly a part of the diet of the people that came here at a certain season of the year. this is a leaf of nopal cactus, which you can find during all the seasons, but there are times when people eat it more often because there is nothing else to eat. keach: nopal still grows just outside the cave. macneish's workmen remember droughts when they ate nopal to stave off hunger and thirst. they call the cactus "starvation food." so, discovering cactus in the cave tells the arch

i am more concerned about the excavation done. now granted it's been done. the issue is and for our check list if it's more than 2 feet in a archaeological sensitive area it needs review and if it's more than 8 feet of that and needs environmental review. it needs to receive that. that is a couple of weeks to do environmental review for that. again it's 90% done at this point. >> i'm sorry. but the work has been done already at this time. we recently seen cases similar to this. >> yes. unfortunately we take responsibility for those. we should have caught this at the time we did the permit. >> okay. thank you. >> okay. thank you. are we in deliberation? >> are we. so the time for public comment is over? >> yes. >> you want to -- >> i guess i will start. looking at the briefs it's a difficult case to look at. after hearing both sides they have already evidently had a problem with their initial contractor. the room would have triggered something was removed. seems at which point they're code compliant. they probably are going to deal with the city for another m

what we'll do is go in, demolish the building, excavate and build our shaft. we'll remove the tunnel boring machines, and then we'll leave. what we will leave him with is removing the top portion of our shaft and backfilling somef that space and we've provided an allowance of up to $400,000 for that activity to get him back to a place where he he can then advance his project. so, the sum total of those is $3.15 million. that again is an upper limit. the 400,000 per year is fixed. the balance are allowances to be verified. in addition, we have estimated that our costs to change the current approved contract and project, the additional design cost, the additional construction costs, would be on the order of $6 million or the maximum of $ million. so, what we're asking you for in this item is the authorization, both for the lease, the $3.15 million max of the lease, up to $6 million additional construction costs, which are basically the costs of the additional tunneling, the design changes we have to make, and the cost of building the new excavation shaft less so

they ordered excavations and had the most elegant finds removed to their palace.ord of the mysterious roman cities trapped in time spread throughout europe intrigued by the classical age. travelers added pompeii as a vital stop on their grand tour. sir william hamilton, the british envoy, arrived in naples in 1764 and stayed for 25 years. hamilton combined his interests in ancient history with a passion for the accumulation of knowledge for its own sake. his studies of vesuvian lava and other volcanic debris and its impact on the geology of the bay led to published accounts of his findings. at the same time, painters created imaginative images of the cataclysmic eruption of 79 a.d., as well as contemporary views of the still active vesuvius, which erupted sporadically but less lethally throughout the 18th century. writers and intellectuals began to visit pompeii in search of the wellsprings of western european culture. german writer wolfgang von goethe visited pompeii in 1787. reader: "the rooms, passages and arcades are gaily painted. the frescoes are surrounded

. >> we issued one and another one for doing excavating and that was after the hearing as well. >> the nov for the paint, was for not testing? >> well, they were removing, they were doing exterior lead, disturbing the paint on the exterior of the building like without the proper procedures. so they were... they didn't have any tarps down and there is a whole ordinance in our building code about that and when the inspector from our led abatement program went there and they gave them a $2500 penalty. >> in terms of that process, but has it been proven that it was lead paint. >> it could be. >> but the nov related to not following the appropriate process. >> correct, that is right. >> yes. mostly mitigation, taps, etc.. >> and when the gentleman mentioned earlier how often is sfpd called in to enter? >> i have working there 14 years and my experience 2 or three times i have heard of it happen and donald is part of that in bay view hunter's point and so he does work closely with the police department and he knows them pretty well there and i think that there is an ongoing thing, but certai

so i have no idea, but, from looking at the plan, that is required, excavation. yeah. so, i guess we are just already. so this will be our proposal and we will we are willing to submit a revision, not a revision, a new permit to adjust those items. >> except the door. >> okay. >> did you accept splitting... there is a question of putting in a common gutter but two rain water liters? >> one goes to your side for half of it? >> yeah. >> and the other goes to their side for half of it? >> yeah. >> all right. which does not make too much sense, but it does create one thing it creates equal liability for keeping the gutters clean. i told my client, because it comes from one area. so it does not matter, split. >> you have a

in addition, he had an excavator and dug up and removed and hauled away a great deal of dirt before it was tested. the whole point of testing is to find out if it is bad before you dig it up. it is like asking a person to take a breathalyzer test the next day, it defeats the whole purpose, he said that he would do it, he didn't do it. in addition he was caught working without a permit. without neighborhood notification and doing demolition in his building, jack hammering concrete and removing partitions. in addition he was so arrogant, and he tried to prevent the building inspectors from getting inside of the building they had to call the sfpd, you should ask mr. duffy how often do they need to call the sfpd to look at a building. he has got an expensive lawyer who is up here trying to spin this into my poor client was just shoring up his building. that is a lie. he was not shoring up his building, he was demolishing the building. he did not think of shoring it up until after the engineer went out there and admonished him that the damn thing was falling down and then he started to shor

so i have no idea, but, from looking at the plan, that is required, excavation. yeah. so, i guess we are just already. so this will be our proposal and we will we are willing to submit a revision, not a revision, a new permit to adjust those items. >> except the door. >> okay. >> did you accept splitting... there is a question of putting in a common gutter but two rain water liters? >> one goes to your side for half of it? >> yeah. >> and the other goes to their side for half of it? >> yeah. >> all right. which does not make too much sense, but it does create one thing it creates equal liability for keeping the gutters clean. i told my client, because it comes from one area. so it does not matter, split. >> you have a value that there the two drain to the same location. >> all right. we will ask them the same question. >> and your other change is that you were saying instead of removing the door, on the third floor, you are providing a guardrail there so nobody can exit through. >> correct and on the permit, the second appeal permit, already just we put in a 42 inches

the additional tunneling, the design changes we have to make, and the cost of building the new excavation shaft less some of the costs that we'll save from not excavating where we currently planned. * $6 million so, that's the item before you. as the board president referenced, there have been various concerns by various members of the community, surrounding various aspects about this. i think there's one category of folks who have consistently not supported the general project and they've raised a number of concerns that we have been able to address in writing and i sent you a copy of that last wednesday night. there are i think some very legitimate concerns of the immediately abutting property owners. now that we're not on the public right-of-way, the impact, construction impact to the great majority of north beach residents and merchants is very, very small, but the people who are directly abutting the site, you know, they will be abutting a construction site, as it would have been whether or not we came there presuming this project would go forward, but they will additionally have the

david webster is the archaeologist who excavated much of the noble's house. this man probably had about 200 to 300 people who were dependent on him in some way, including his wives, his brothers, his political retainers, his economic specialists, living in this patio group and the other patio groups. they're buried here. there are about 250 or 300 burials here. which are the people who were his dependents. and essentially what this is is an elaborate household. keach: the maya noble could support his household because he controlled the rich farmland surrounding the compound. the land was so fertile it could produce a surplus which fed the noble's dependents, including specialists like the artisan, who were not themselves farmers. this was the basis of the economic system of the elites in ancient copan. for the noble, the system worked well. the more dependents he controlled, the more powerful he appeared. but the system also created a problem. what was he to do with such a large family of elites ? i suspect that one of the things is what do you do with these

done, the next permit a bit more excavation, a bit more. they weren't clear existing plans. so, there was quite a few issues there with the plans. i think ultimately we did come to a resolution with all the parties and the permit holder and hopefully we'll have that concluded in the next week. there was also an appeal of building permit for 264 door street. this was before the planning commission as a discretionary review request in june of last year. it's a two-story auto repair facility and light industrial zoning district. the back of it backs into a live/work. and the people that were in the -- living in the live/work were complaining about the impacts on light and air to their property. should be noted in the sli zoning district no dwelling uniunited states are allowed, live/work is aloud. this project was built out in the mid '90s. * allowed at the hearing, the planning commission voted to make a 45-degree [speaker not understood] at the rear of the property to give a bit more light and relief. at the hearing the appellants argued thi

they finally had to bring in an excavator to get to where this puppy was stuck. >> oh, man. >> and then look, you see the moment that the puppy is brought to safety. >> holy -- >> he looks great coming out of that dirt. >> looks like a six-foot deep hole they had to dig because somebody didn't put a little piece of grate on top of that drain pipe. >> it's amazing work that the michigan humane society does, today, february 14th, they're having a telethon hosted by our friends at wxyz tv in detroit to raise money because without the support of people in michigan it would be difficult for them to do the amazing jobs that they do. >> it's not cheap to bring in an excavator to dig holes to get out a puppy. that had to cost a lot of money. >> you have to save these little guys. >> saved lives, all for the love of animals. >> we're giving away an ipad mini in a little while. >> you need thursday's buzzword and have to be 18 or older to enter. >> stick around in just a little bit. >> good luck everybody. >>> welcome to squall valley usa. squall is one of my favorite mountains to ride. >> you ca

and this is supposed to make it so water is only comes from inside the excavation. if water gets into the inside of the excavation -- so if that occurs, then it will be dewatering under the buildings, most of them over 100 years old. and they have brick -- they all have brick foundations, so the buildings will be damaged. there is no two ways about it. it's a consideration that should be given before approving this project. thank you. >> next speaker. >> howard wong with savemuni.com. the pagoda theater is not the best option that avoids all adverse impacts on our north beach neighborhood. the pagoda theater still impacts several businesses, and for all we know, others as well. as you know, tunneling and subway projects do have risks. in the original approved final eir in 2008, the north beach tunnel was capitalized the north beach construction tunnel variant. the base contract was the boring of the tunnel-boring machines in the chinatown area. we have learned since then, according to mta, that the northern tunnel will not be used in any way for conveying materials