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® June 13 2018 Vol. LVI • No. 12
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State Reconstructs Badly Deteriorated Bridge By Cindy Riley
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In Trenton, N.J., crews are performing a major rehabilitation of the Route 495 Bridge over Route 1/9 and Paterson Plank Road in North Bergen. The $90.3 million state-funded project to overhaul the nine-span viaduct includes repairs and reconstruction of the bridge deck, replacement and strengthening of deteriorated structural steel and the repair and painting of the substructure. The work will result in traffic delays for drivers traveling to and from the Lincoln Tunnel, but must be performed. “The bridge is rated as structurally deficient and functionally obsolete,” said The $90.3 million state-funded project to overhaul the nine-span viaduct includes repairs and Stephen Schapiro, New Jersey reconstruction of the bridge deck, replacement Department of Transportation (NJDOT) and strengthening of deteriorated structural steel communications director. “The purpose and the repair and painting of the substructure. of the project is to rehabilitate the Route 495 Bridge, which will extend the useful service tural framing and supporting piers have areas of life for an estimated 75 years and will eliminate severe corrosion and section loss, and the existing paint system is in need of a complete the need for potential emergency repairs.” The Route 495, Route 1/9/Paterson Plank replacement. Constructed in the late 1930s, the bridge Road bridge deck is in poor condition, the struc-
Fed Funds Help State Clean Up Abandoned Mines, Put Out Fires By Emily Buenzle CEG WEB EDITOR
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One state’s mines are in for some spring cleaning. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said it plans to spend $55 million on cleaning up abandoned mines across the state. Projects will include: • Treating polluted water from the mines; • Stabilizing mine lands that have been deemed unsafe; and • Putting out mine fires that have been burning underground, State Impact reported. The funds will come from the Abandoned
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Projects will include putting out mine fires that have been burning underground.
The existing structure framing and the significant change in vertical elevation to improve drainage, require replacing small portions of the bridge deck each night and transitioning back to the existing deck to allow traffic on it.
Mine Lands fund, a federal program that is part of the Department of the Interior. Money is collected from a fee on current coal production, State Impact reported, and goes to pay for the cleanup of mines that were created before
carries traffic on Route 495 over the NYS&W and Conrail rail lines, as well as Route 1/9, Paterson Plank Road and Liberty Avenue in the Township of North Bergen, Hudson County. Route 495 is a 3.45-mi.-long, divided urban freeway in Hudson County that connects the New Jersey Turnpike to the Lincoln Tunnel. Route 495 is four lanes at its western limit where it meets the New Jersey Turnpike (I-95) at exit 16E. The freeway is mostly six lanes, with an eight-lane section across the Route 495
see MINES page 108
see TRENTON page 104