Site work for a water / sewer project in Athens, Georgia. Conceptual plans call for site work for a water / sewer project.

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia ("BOR") as ("Administrator"), on behalf of the University of Georgia, ("Institution") is soliciting statements of Qualifications from firms interested in providing design professional services for a project known as Project No. "Design services to protect a vital shoreline at Mayport Village on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, FL" which project is being carried out by Administrator and Institution on behalf of the United States pursuant to AWD00018463. A project description is provided below: Project Context: State Road A1A is a singular and vital road connection into Mayport Village, a historic working waterfront community on the banks of the Saint Johns River in NE Florida. In addition to Naval Station Mayport, the Village hosts a major commercial seafood processing facility, the United States Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville's primary operating facility, a public marine science education center, the Saint John's Bar Pilots headquarters, extensive boat ramp facilities serving the offshore recreational fishing community, and a Ferry landing providing for vehicular transit across the Saint Johns River connecting key centers of coastal tourism. Unfortunately, these and other values that rely upon the resilience of this unique and historic community are at risk due to the extreme vulnerability of A1A at its point of arrival in Mayport Village. Sea level rise and climate change are causing increasingly severe flooding in Jacksonville, Florida and the larger northeast Florida region associated with the Lower Saint Johns River Watershed. The North East Florida Transportation Planning Organization's (NEFL TPO) Mayport Resiliency Assessment describes some of the specific vulnerabilities that threaten the area around Mayport Village and Mayport Naval Air Station, with a particular focus on the State Route A1A corridor into Mayport Village. The Mayport Resiliency Assessment identified the segment of A1A closest to Mayport Village as the most significant concern of all road segments assessed surrounding Mayport Naval Air Station with significant impacts occurring with as little as half a foot of sea level rise. Unfortunately, along the 2000 feet of A1A closest to Mayport Village, paralleling the river, the threat is more imminent than any predictive sea level rise scenario might imply. In fact, today, the wrack lines from recent spring tide events are virtually on the road shoulder less than 300 feet away from both the Navy's primary commercial vehicle access gate and the Coast Guard station. A recent road patch, stretching along about 100 feet of the shoreward lane is still apparent, revealing the impacts of Florida's damaging 2022 hurricane season. Hurricanes that made land fall hundreds of miles away on the Florida peninsula produced severe flooding and road over-wash compromising what little vegetated buffer had remained to gird the road from the river's strong tidal currents and exposure to erosive waves from ship wakes and wind fetch. This retreating shoreline is known by various names locally including "Little Jetties" and Helen Cooper Floyd Park and is utilized by the public for recreational shore fishing and leisure. Proposed Solution: This project will evaluate multiple design alternatives with an emphasis on Engineering With Nature and Nature-based solutions to buffer the roadway from wave and current energy and to attenuate tidal flooding. The linear extent of the project's footprint is anticipated to be 1000 to 2000 linear feet of river shoreline. Due to the intense currents and ship wakes that are prevalent in this area and the close proximity to the Federally maintained navigation channel, the engineering approach will likely require that some degree of traditional infrastructure be integrated with habitat creation goals. To achieve this objective, we will assemble a multi-sector collaborative design team that will identify the most resilient structural and material approaches in concert with a foundational goal to design for biodiversity enrichment through restoration of appropriate vegetation communities and habitat, guided by the sites historical ecological characteristics. To support development of conceptual alternatives and 30% design plans, this project will also conduct a user intercept survey to assess how the public currently interacts with and values the project site. Conceptual alternatives will be evaluated using advanced modeling tools such as the Coastal Storm Modeling System. The UGA faculty spearheading this project will draw upon extensive technical expertise and engineering research capacity at the University of Georgia, positioning them well to lead a collaborative preliminary design effort drawing upon a deep collective well of expertise and capabilities. Private sector coastal engineering consultation will be integrated into the design process to maximize constructability and minimize risk of compromised design objectives. The design team will take inspiration from comparable EWN projects including, Heron Head Park in San Francisco Bay, the Dauphin Island Causeway Shoreline Project, and the NCDOT living shoreline project in Swansboro. Project deliverables will include summary proceedings of design charettes, summary analysis of surveys to assess shoreline user values, conceptual renderings of design alternatives considered, summary interpretation of model analyses used to evaluate conceptual alternatives, and 30% engineered design drawings suitable for initiation of regulatory permitting consultation for the recommended alternative, and a construction implementation strategy document. The long-term utility of the collaborative preliminary design project we propose will be the increased likelihood that an innovative and effective EWN project will be constructed on this site to substantially reduce the vulnerability of A1A to coastal flood hazards while preserving recreational access to the shoreline, supporting a vibrant Mayport Village, sustaining the operational readiness of Naval Station Mayport, and increasing the capacity of the site to support biodiversity