Fisheries committee  I think the area is currently an active slide, so we have to be very cognizant in the current area. I'll ask Pat Wilson to jump in quickly on whether there's any adjacent site that we're aware of.

Fisheries committee  Our contract scope to date has all been about construction means and methods, about how to remove rock from the river and install this Whooshh system. The Whooshh system is what we were referring to. We've brought in an expert who's proprietary to that system in order to make sur

Fisheries committee  Mr. Johns, are you referring to a permanent solution or something more temporary?

Fisheries committee  For this season, as I mentioned, the Whooshh system is in place. I've been to the site and have seen it on a practical basis. I think that starting a fish ladder right now, a permanent one, would be a real challenge because of water levels. I think you'd have to do a design start

Fisheries committee  I would be encouraging a design starting pretty quickly.

Fisheries committee  That is not currently part of our scope. We haven't been asked to be part of the design or to build a permanent fish ladder.

Fisheries committee  Not for a permanent fix at this time, but given the opportunity by the committee, DFO, etc., we'd be happy to collaborate with the group here, or the first nations involved, to find that design and solution.

Fisheries committee  That's mostly correct. As I mentioned, we had also done some work on the permanent rockfall protection as well as a portion of the natural ladder. I'm happy to pass it over to Pat Wilson, the project manager, if there's more scope that I'm missing.

Fisheries committee  No, I don't believe the Whooshh system is a long-term solution—

Fisheries committee  There are two elements that I believe are long term that are being completed on the site. One is the rockfall protection. It's an active slide area. To protect workers, the people who are down in that area, we have hung a series of rockfall mesh protections that will be able to

Fisheries committee  Kiewit's contract was an execution at the start, not a design contract. The initial design hydrology was done through the client. There were targets set of certain boulders, of certain portions of the rock in the river that needed to be removed. Absolutely, there were targets to

Fisheries committee  In British Columbia, we do fish ladder work around hydroelectric operations. We've been involved with independent power, etc.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. The contract has evolved over time. When it first started and we won the contract for the 17 million dollars' worth of scope, as you mentioned, it was for removal of a portion of the rock in the river. We were able to successfully execute that and rem

Fisheries committee  I'll do my best to comment. At this time, water levels are still quite high, so we haven't seen a lot of the migrations coming upriver yet. I'll pass it over to Pat Wilson, the project manager for our Big Bar work, and maybe Pat could add a bit of colour to help answer that qu

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. On behalf of Peter Kiewit Sons ULC, we appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today about our role in this very important project. As Mr. Chair mentioned, my name is Ryan Tones. I am a senior vice-president with Peter