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Ditch Witch of Ohio, W.PA, W.NY Hosts Hospitality Event

ustomers and associates of Ditch Witch of Ohio, Western PA and Western NY were treated to a hospitality event held to coincide with the Memorial Tournament at the Muirfield Village Golf Course near Columbus, Ohio, on June 1. Gathering at the hospitality house on the seventh fairway of the course, guests were provided with food, beverages and PGA badges allowing access to the course and an up close look at the golfers in action. Matt Di Iorio, general manager of Ditch Witch of Ohio, Western PA and Western NY explained that the hospitality event provides an excellent opportunity for the dealership’s sales people and Ditch Witch factory representatives to spend time with their customers in a relaxed setting while enjoying one of the premier golf events of the year. The Memorial Tournament, founded and hosted by Jack Nicklaus, is one of the year’s

largest the non-major events on the PGA tour. The invitational event matches up the previous year’s top 75 prize earners. The event is held at the Nicklaus-designed Muirfield Village Golf Course, located just outside of Nicklaus’ hometown of Columbus. Top hon- (L-R): Ditch Witch of Ohio, Western PA and Western NY General Manager Matt Di Iorio catches up with Tim Griffin of Fishel Company and Don Kendall of TRC ors at this year’s tournament went to Tiger Environmental Engineering. Woods, claiming his fifth win at the Memorial. With full service dealerships in Columbus, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pa., and product support centers in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio and Rochester, N.Y., Ditch Witch of Ohio, W.PA, W.NY sells, rents and supports the full Ditch Witch line of trenchers, vibratory plows, pneumatic piercing tools, backhoes, mini skid steers, vacuum excavation systems, utility locating equipment, horizontal directional drilling systems, and drill pipe along with a variety of other downhole tools. see GOLF page 5

(L-R): Ditch Witch of Ohio’s Jim Pape talks with Sue and Dave Dietz of Beaver Creek Landscape & Nursery, Beavercreek, Ohio.

In for the event from Oklahoma, Ditch Witch Manufacturing representatives John Lamerton and Tucker Dotson flank (L-R) Fred Willits, Chris Sands and Jeff Fricke of Team Fishel to watch the golf activities.

Ditch Witch Sales of Michigan’s Andy Hildebrant (L) and James Patterson are happy they made the trip to take part in the festivities.

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‘Buckeye State’ Highway Lettings

The Ohio State Department of Transportation received bids for transportation-related improvement projects. The following is a list of some of the projects let. Project No: 120025 Type: Four lane resurfacing. Location: SUM-IR-76/77/277/224-VAR.#1/SUM-2771.61#2/SUM-76-6. State Estimate: $14,600,000 Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Shelly Company, Thornville, Ohio — $13,139,797 • Karvo Paving Company, Stow, Ohio — $13,892,652 • Shelly & Sands Inc., Zanesville, Ohio — $13,901,881 Completion Date: July 30, 2013 Project No: 120027 Type: Bridge replacement (two bridges). Location: ALL-IR-75-6.11/7.85. State Estimate: $8,122,000 Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Eagle Bridge Company, Sidney, Ohio — $7,984,967 • Miller Bros Construction Inc., Archbold, Ohio — $8,097,659 • Vernon Nagel Inc., Napoleon, Ohio — $8,185,559 • Complete General Construction Company, Columbus, Ohio — $8,395,276. • Kokosing Construction Company Inc., Columbus, Ohio — $8,819,951 Completion Date: Oct. 31, 2012 Project No: 120028 Type: Bridge repair. Location: COL-SR-11-11.41. State Estimate: $1,127,000 Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Marucci & Gaffney Excavating Company, Youngstown, Ohio — $899,873 • A P O’Horo Co., Youngstown, Ohio — $963,000 • Keffler Bridge Co., Canfield, Ohio — $1,130,741 • Complete General Construction Company, Columbus, Ohio — $1,165,883 • Armstrong Steel Erectors Inc., Newark, Ohio — $1,223,262 • Dot Construction Corp, Canfield, Ohio — $1,276,713 • Shelly & Sands Inc., Zanesville, Ohio — $1,335,969 Completion Date: Aug. 31, 2012 Project No: 120031 Type: Bridge repair. Location: GRE-SR-444-0.16. State Estimate: $1,998,000 Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Complete General Construction Company, Columbus, Ohio — $1,881,077 • Double Z Construction Company, Columbus, Ohio — $1,994,284. • Cosmos Industrial Services Inc., Cleveland, Ohio — $2,178,099 • Velotta Company, Sharon Center, Ohio — $2,178,197 • Dot Construction Corp., Canfield, Ohio — $2,189,281

• Eagle Bridge Company, Sidney, Ohio — $2,268,148 • Bridge Overlay Systems Inc., Canfield, Ohio — $2,357,157 Completion Date: Oct. 31, 2012 Project No: 120043 Type: Bridge replacement (one bridge). Location: PIK-TR-T.R.338-2.20 (Gleason Road). State Estimate: $1,259,000 Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Double Z Construction Company, Columbus, Ohio — $1,119,911 • Complete General Construction Company, Columbus, Ohio — $1,213,181 • Eagle Bridge Company, Sidney, Ohio — $1,270,923 • Shelly & Sands Inc., Zanesville, Ohio — $1,286,801 • Righter Company Inc., Columbus, Ohio — $1,565,370 Completion Date: Nov. 15, 2012 Project No: 120045 Type: Bridge repair. Location: SUM-SR-8-0.00/2.13. State Estimate: $4,055,000 Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Shelly & Sands Inc., Zanesville, Ohio — $4,359,112 • Shelly Company, Thornville, Ohio — $4,389,984 • Karvo Paving Company, Stow, Ohio — $4,486,185 • Northstar Asphalt Inc., North Canton, Ohio — $4,975,383 Completion Date: Sept. 30, 2012

Project No: 120047 Type: Bridge replacement (one bridge). Location: UNI-US-36-6.22. State Estimate: $951,000 Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Double Z Construction Company, Columbus, Ohio — $990,930 • R & I Construction Inc., Tiffin, Ohio — $1,024,481 • Complete General Construction Company, Columbus, Ohio — $1,027,645 • Righter Company Inc., Columbus, Ohio — $1,045,848 • Rietschlin Construction Inc., Crestline, Ohio — $1,052,437 • Eagle Bridge Company, Sidney, Ohio — $1,070,061 • R B Jergens Contractors Inc., Vandalia, Ohio — $1,077,386 • Dot Construction Corporation, Canfield, Ohio — $1,150,980 Completion Date: Oct. 15, 2012 Project No: 120053 Type: Parking areas. Location: MUS-SR/PER-146/668-5.81/14.11. State Estimate: $1,825,000 Contractors and Bid Amounts: • Shelly Company, Thornville, Ohio — $2,159,098 • Shelly & Sands Inc., Zanesville, Ohio — $2,432,112 Completion Date: Aug. 31, 2012

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$150M Nelsonville Bypass Project Nears Completion By Mary Reed CEG Correspondent

The completion of the US 33 Nelsonville Bypass project currently under way in Ohio boasts the largest single investment — up to $150 million — made by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT). The Department was able to award contracts for the completion of the Athens County job five years earlier than anticipated, thanks to funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). When completed, a notorious bottleneck will be removed,

given ODOT estimates that over 1,700 trucks travel US 33 daily between Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, W.V., making that stretch the eighth busiest truck route in Ohio. At present almost all these trucks go through Nelsonville, where the four-lane highway narrows to a two-lane local road. Completion of the third and final phase in October 2013 will complete the corridor, an ambitious project that involves construction of 8.3 mi. (13.4 km) of four-lane highway and relocation of 2.2 mi. (3.5 km) of State Routes 78 and 691. “The entire corridor involves 14.8 million cubic yards of excavation and 10.5 million cubic yard of embankment. For the ARRA-funded projects (Phases 2 & 3) the totals are 11.3 mil-

lion cubic yards of excavation and 8.6 million cubic yards of embankment,” said ODOT Project Engineer Daniel McDonald. There are 18 bridges included in the corridor —eight sets of twin bridges on US Route 33 and a single structure piece on State Route 78 and State Route 691, he added. The bypass also features three types of wildlife crossing, developed in coordination with Wayne National Forest, through which a large portion of the Nelsonville Bypass Corridor passes. Consequently, this job had a higher emphasis placed on environmental commitments than typical roadway projects normally would. “This spring a subcontractor will be in to set the 28-foot by 11-foot precast arches that will be used as a wildlife crossing. The wildlife crossing will allow wildlife to safely cross from one side of the roadway to the other without interfering with vehicular traffic,” McDonald said. “Also, all of the right-of-way fence along mainline is 8-feet high fencing as opposed to the typical 47-inch fencing. There are also several ‘wildlife jump outs’ designed that will allow deer to escape the roadway should they somehow breach the fencing. The jumpouts use a vertical grade separation at the fence line using gabion baskets. The inside of the fence, towards the roadway, will be higher and the deer will simply be able to jump down out of the roadway alignment, but will be discouraged from using it the other direction due to the vertical face and the narrow entry point,” he added. In addition, an amphibian crossing has been constructed under the new alignment of State Route 78 in an area where wetlands exist on both sides of the roadway alignment. “I’ve been told that certain amphibian always return to the location where they were born. To allow for this, a pipe was placed at 0-percent grade to allow the tadpoles to migrate to the other side of the roadway,” McDonald said. “There will also be two runs of precast concrete structures with grates over the top so the amphibians can cross back to the other side when they mature into adults. There are specially designed headwalls that will funnel the amphibians into these structures.” The Nelsonville area had a thriving coal mining industry in the early 1900s, leading to the town’s nickname of Little City of Black Diamonds. The decline of the industry and the lax regulations of the time led to mines being abandoned as they stood. To avoid highway subsidence and for safety reasons, grout is being used to fill abandoned mine voids. ODOT Project Engineer McDonald described the process. “This work involved drilling holes at a fixed pattern and then filling the voids full of grout. They began by drilling holes around the perimeter of a particular area and then pumping in a stiff stackable grout mix which we referred to as barrier grout. This essentially created an underground dam at the perimeter of the roadway that could hold back a more fluid grout. Then the holes were drilled in the center of the previous holes and a thin fluid grout mix was pumped in that would fill every small crease and void that was encountered. Afterwards, confirmation holes were drilled to ensure that the grout did fill in the voids as intended.” “Although all the holes indicated on the plans have been drilled, not nearly as much grout as originally anticipated has been used, due to the fact the designers assumed the mine operations removed a larger percentage of each coal seam than was actually taken," he said. As of June 2012 crews on Phase 2 were preparing the roadway base for pavement and performing some bridge work. They expect to be completed by this fall. On Phase 3 grouting work is being wrapped up, grading the subgrade has begun, and bridge work is ongoing. CEG

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Ditch Witch Treats Customers To PGA Tour Event Fun GOLF from page 1

Matt and Tania Di Iorio take a break from hosting duties to watch some play on the fairway. (L-R): Ditch Witch of Ohio, W.PA, W.NY ’s Jim Pape joins Don Ventline of Landform, Fairfield, Ohio, and Bill Coakley of Ditch Witch of Ohio, W.PA, W.NY.

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MADISON, Ind. (AP) The team building a new Ohio River bridge connecting Madison and Milton, Ky., wants spectators to stay on dry land while the first new span is placed on temporary pilings the week of June 18. The exact dates have not been set, but the complex series of steps to get the section of the truss in place will take 36 hours over three days, and might include night work. There will be a 500-ft. keep-away zone and a 1,000-ft. no-wake zone both upriver and downriver from the bridge carrying U.S. 421 over the river. The zones will be enforced, and the U.S. Coast Guard has been asked for help, Walsh Construction Co. said in an overview of the operation. Spectators will be able to watch from anywhere along the river except beyond the fence near St. Michael’s Avenue on Vaughn Drive, the bridge project team said. Unlike during the blast to remove an approach span on the Madison side, people will be able to watch from the grassy area between the river and the sidewalk on the Madison side, the team said. The span was built on barges on the Kentucky side. It is 600 ft. long and weighs 1,776 tons. The steel in this span weighs 14 times more than the weight of the steel in the Statue of Liberty. Getting the bridge span onto the temporary pilings will be an exercise in precision. The lifting method is called hydraulic strand jacking. Part of the job will be to place two girders — which are very long steel beams — under the span that will be used when the entire new bridge is slid onto the existing, enlarged piers. Installing each girder will take six hours. Walsh Construction Co.’s overview described what will take place. The steps include: • Use barges to pull the span away from the assembly area on the Kentucky side. The span will be on barges that will float out into the river. • Turn the span into the proper orientation for its lift. • Push the span into position at the base of temporary piers 3 and 4, then anchor it into place. Temporary piers 3 and 4 are next to the first piers in the water on the Kentucky side.

• Make the final lifting preparations, which will include several steps. • Lift the span higher than its destination so the sliding girders can be installed between it and the temporary piers. To do this, workers will use a system of rollers, cable winches, high-torque hydraulic wrenches and center hole jacks, the overview said. The overview also included how much time the various parts of the float and lift will take, with the lengths of time subject to change. The first half-hour will be get-ready time and will include a “safety huddle” where all the safety risks will be talked about, the project team said. There will be about three huddles altogether during the span lifting, the team said. Floating the span into position will take half an hour, and final preparations for the lift will take nine and a half hours. Strand-lifting the span will take 10 hours, followed by installing the sliding girder at temporary pier 3, a six-hour job, followed by doing the same at temporary pier 4, also a six-hour job. Hours 34 through 36 will be spent doing the final positioning of bearings and setting the span. The bridge project team will be taking time-lapse pictures of the entire process, which will show a short, compacted version of the span lifting. The time-lapse video will be on the project Web site, www.miltonmadisonbridge.com. The bridge will be open for traffic while the span lifting is going on, and the normal work at the bridge will be taking place, including work on the approaches, pile driving and construction of another span — 727ft. (221.6 m) long — that is being built on the Kentucky riverbank. When that span is done, there will be another lifting operation, expected later this summer. The rest of the bridge will be built by workers over the river instead of alongside the river. When the new bridge is finished on the temporary piers, traffic will be diverted to it and the existing bridge will be closed forever and taken down. The work on the existing piers will be completed, and then, probably early next year, the entire new bridge will be slid into place on the piers, and Madison and Milton will have a new bridge across the Ohio River.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio officials are again adjusting anticipated delays on some major transportation projects, and this time they’re shrinking the construction calendar. State transportation staffers had recommended that planned work on some bridge and road projects be delayed by up to 19 years, citing a lack of funds and over-commitment by previous administrations. The Columbus Dispatch reported an advisory board now is expected to consider a tighter timetable. Director Jerry Wray said the Ohio Department of Transportation is counting on savings from a smaller payroll and other initiatives to help fund some projects sooner. Wray said the new construction dates aren’t set yet. Democratic state Rep. John Patrick Carney of Columbus said he’s become skeptical about the ODOT estimates as they’ve changed several times over a few months.

illnesses in the nation's mines with a variety of activities and programs. The agency develops and enforces safety and health rules applying to all U.S. mines, helps mine operators who have special compliance problems, and makes available technical, educational and other types of assistance. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources ensures a balance between wise use and protection of our natural resources for the benefit of all. For more information, visit www.ohiodnr.com.

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in any unguarded body of water. With more than 200 member companies, OAIMA producers account for nearly 111 million tons of limestone, sand and gravel aggregates, salt, clay and other minerals mined in Ohio each year. Each Ohio resident requires nearly 10 tons (about a dump truck load) per year of minerals mined locally in Ohio. The U.S. Labor Department’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) helps to reduce deaths, injuries and

The Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) and the Ohio Aggregates and Industrial Minerals Association (OAIMA) have joined forces to promote summer water safety through the Stay-Out and Stay-Alive program. Now in its 14th year, the Stay-Out and Stay-Alive Program warns outdoor enthusiasts, ATV participants and especially young people of the dangers of playing and swimming on mine property. Since 1999, nearly 300 people have lost their lives in recreational accidents at mine properties; nearly half of the victims were between 15 to 25 years old. “With kids across the country on summer break, the temptation to swim in an abandoned quarry can be hard to overcome,” said Joseph A. Main, assistant secretary of labor of mine safety and health. “I am pleased that ODNR and OAIMA are active partners in the Stay-Out Stay-Alive campaign. Together we can more effectively spread the word about the potential dangers of playing on mine property.” “Ohio offers 59 beaches on 47 inland lakes in addition to beaches on Lake Erie,” said ODNR Director James Zehringer. “Our beaches offer great opportunities for safe swimming, water sports and enjoying Ohio’s natural resources along with family and friends.” According to Patrick Jacomet, executive director of the OAIMA, “aggregate mines are important to all Ohioans because construction, home, school and road building materials are mined locally. However, the most common recreational accident on mine property, which includes active and reclaimed quarries and sand and gravel operations, is drowning.” The OAIMA urges all Ohioans to observe and comply with “No Trespassing” signs and other warnings and advises parents to warn young people of the dangers of swimming

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