You grab your favorite planner and your lead engineer and head out to the site. The idea is to have a rapid iteration on site, just seeing if you can go through all of the planning steps quickly to vet the project. And with there only being three of you (wait - are you the planner? Aren't you going to invite the PM?), it should be good enough to go and visit the site and get a quick overview, identify some solutions, and bring it back for funding request.
The background information you have gotten since the first iteration is a mess.
It took you fifteen steps, and five straight up denials, but eventually the plans for the Grade Control Structure were found. TDOT had told you they didn't have any record of building the structure, but that any records they might have had were destroyed in a flood. Eventually, the railroad provided you with the plans. They were from Tennessee Department of Transportation.
Shelby County secured a HUD grant to address resiliency along Big Creek, but there are restrictions on combining funding streams from the Federal Government. (Open discussion to follow about the wording in WRDA 22).
The whole thing is enough to make you start drinking. But you persist, and finally get the MVD CAP Manager on the phone.
Finally.
And he says, "Why don't we discuss this at the upcoming CAP Summit? You want to host it this year?"
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