hh-974e, lower cherry aquaduct emergency rehabilitation with flatiron west, inc., authorize the general manager to terminate and issue final payment. >> okay, mr. cruz. >> madam president, members of the commission, emilio cruz, the item before you is lower cherry aquaduct project. this was an emergency project entered into after the declaration of general drought emergency and it was to allow us flexibility to allow us to move water from cherry creek down through the aquaduct which was an antiquated aquaduct in disrepair and additionally was damaged during the rim fire. we started that contract in april of 2014 as a cmgc contract in a state of local emergency. all of the work was to deal with the immediate urgency of repairing the aquaduct sufficiently to be able to pass water through the aquaduct to give us operational flexibility. we have reached a point in the contract where we have completed work sufficiently to use the aquaduct, but more work that was anticipated in phase i than what was to actually put a full pipe in the system so that it would be a closed system. from a schedule