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October 3 2009 Vol. XVI • No. 20
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Reconstruction of I-90 to Drilling Started on Meet Fall Deadline in S.D. $109M Northern Kentucky Project
By Dorinda Anderson CEG CORRESPONDENT
Dozer Day Draws More Than 20,000 Visitors…14
West Side Tractor Sales’s Event Hits Target…18
Ritchie Bros. Holds Sale in Chicago…86
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Even with above normal rainfall slowing down construction, the South Dakota Department of Transportation is confident it will meet its fall deadline on the reconstruction of a 22-mi. (35.4 km) westbound stretch of Interstate 90 from the exit at Mt. Vernon to the exit at White Lake in southeast South Dakota. As one of the oldest stretches of Interstate in the state, at 50 years old, it is in need of repair. The project began May 5 with the removal of the existing westbound lane, which was crushed and used as a cushion under the concrete base, explained Laura Siefkes, human resources director with Upper Plains Contracting Inc., the prime contractor for the project. The existing gravel and asphalt was reused for the new project. Some of the asphalt was removed with a reclaimator and it is being used as recycled asphalt in the new asphalt shoulders. The existing asphalt mat will be reused as is and taken to hot mix plant to be incorporat- Crews work to remove the existing wested with other new aggregate, creating a bound lane on a 22-mi. (35.4 km) section of cost savings on the $22.5 million proj- Interstate 90 in South Dakota from the exits see DAKOTA page 60
Mini & Compact Equipment Section ..37-47 Business Calendar ........60 Paving Section ........67-77 Parts Section ................84 Auction Section ......85-94 Advertisers Index ..........95
at Mt. Vernon to White Lake.
Big Minn. Stimulus Job Begins MAPLE GROVE, Minn. (AP) Minnesota’s largest stimulus-funded road project got under way on Sept. 3. The project will extend Highway 610 by 3 mi. (4.8 km) in the Twin Cities’ northwestern suburbs. It’s getting $56 million from the federal economic recovery package. Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez, U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and
Al Franken and Rep. Erik Paulsen will be on hand in Maple Grove for the start of construction. The route was first proposed in the mid1960s and has been incomplete since the first segments were built in the 1980s. The new construction will still leave Highway 610 short of an envisioned link with Interstate 94.
BELLEVIEW, Ky. (AP) Work has started on a massive project to build a tunnel that will carry sewage across western Boone County to a new treatment plant on the banks of the Ohio River. The $109.4 million tunnel will be about 6 mi. (9.6 km) long, 8.5 ft. (2.6 m) in diameter and up to 300 ft. (91 m) underground, The Kentucky Enquirer reported. Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky recently broke ground on the project. “It’s kind of mind-boggling, a project of that scope happening right here in our backyard,” said board Chairman Bob Elliston. “We’re proud to be associated with such world-class technology and its utilization here.” Contractor McNally/Kiewit plans to drill 1,000 ft. (305 m) each week for the next 12 to 18 months, said John Swann, construction manager for the sanitation district. Crews also will build five access shafts at various points along the tunnel for future maintenance and repairs. The tunnel will be made by a 65-ton (59 t) tunnel-boring machine. The 80-ft. (24 m)-long machine has a drill head about 12 ft. (3.6 m) in diameter and powered by four 150-hp (112 kW) hydraulic engines. It will cut the ground at an angle, filtering the dirt out of the tunnel via a conveyor belt on top of the machine. Crews will install steel ribs at 5 ft. (1.5 m) intervals as they drill to support the shaft. The concrete tunnel itself, which is designed to last 100 years, will be installed after all 6 mi. are finished. Crews will work around the clock in two shifts: drilling 20 hours per day and doing maintenance on the tunnel boring machine for four, the newspaper reported. There are more than 100 people on the crew, about 70 percent of them Kentuckians. The tunnel will run from Camp Ernst in Union to the treatment plant, near the intersection of Kentucky 20 and Kentucky 19 in Belleview. Construction on the $69.2 million plant began in June. It and the tunnel are expected to be operational in 2013. The project is designed to alleviate the burden on the Dry Creek treatment plant in Kenton County. The tunnel also will be used to store excess water after heavy rains.