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The construction of a replacement bridge that carries Wheelers Farms Road over State Road 796, a short highway that connects the Merritt Parkway and Wilbur Cross Parkway to I-95 and the Boston Post Road in Milford, Conn., resumed in early April with completion projected for the fall of 2021.

The job has continued during the COVID-19 pandemic with construction jobs not stopped in Connecticut. Though Gov. Ned Lamont has established business restrictions during the pandemic, he has spared the construction industry,

with limitations only placed on indoor construction jobs.

“We’re keeping our big, outdoor, public construction projects going, roads, bridges, schools — where it’s easier to keep social distancing,” Lamont said.

The new structure will be a two-span continuous multigirder bridge resting on concrete abutments and a center pier.

The profile of Wheeler’s Farm Road will be raised to increase the minimum vertical clearance over SR 796 to the required 15 ft. The new spans will be lengthened to allow a 6.5-ft. inside shoulder, three 12-ft. travel lanes and a 10 ft. outside shoulder in each direction on SR 796.

New England Road of Clinton, Conn., is the general see MILFORD page 4

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Extensive Deterioration Spurs Milford Bridge Replacement

John Pryor, a son of one of the owners of New England Road of Clinton, Conn., is all smiles on the job site.

MILFORD from page 1

contractor and won the job with a low bid of $6,848,318, according to Alan Neri, an owner of the company.

The existing bridge was built in 1941 and is being replaced because it is structurally deficient New England Road of Clinton, Conn., is the general contractor and won the job with a low bid of $6,848,318. and functionally obsolete, according to Kevin The existing bridge is a 100-ft. span and the new bridge Nursick, a CTDOT spokesperson. “The structural deficiency them. All this has delayed the project approximately one will be a 150-ft. span, with lane widening occurring at the is due to the deteriorated condition of the deck, superstruc- construction season.”

With the utility issues out of the way, the company began end of the job. “The last stage is to widen the connector,” ture and substructure. All three are rated poor. The deck has hollow area with spalling and the steel girder webs and bear- construction of the bridge, which will be completed in three Remi said.

When asked why the bridge had to be expanded, Neri ings exhibit section loss and rust. The abutments exhibit stages: demolition and construction of the East and West secnumerous spalls and cracking and the steel pier girder has tions of the bridge and the addition of acceleration and decel- said, “The road is getting wider down below so the abutments needed to be built further from the edge of the road.” large areas of rust and section loss. It is functionally obsolete eration lanes.

“We started the job this winter with the demolition of the The company is using a Grove rough-terrain crane on the due to a substandard roadway width and minimum vertical Stage One section of the bridge,” Neri said. “We removed job, along with a Caterpillar wheeled excavator and Genie clearance of 13.8 feet.”

The job began a year ago but was held up by utility issues. the concrete deck over the connector using shielding to keep and JLG lifts.

New England Road will work with subcontractors on the “The utility coordination shouldn’t have taken as long as at least one lane of traffic open in each direction. Once the it did, but we’re at the mercy of the utility companies to get deck was removed, we removed the structural steel girders, job, including Kelly Steel of Hartford, Conn., that will do the coordinated,” Neri said. “Gas, telephone and electric, there cutting them at the center and picking them off with a crane. steel erection; National Shoring of Waterford, Conn.; and were a lot of facilities to relocate. Overhead electric, tele- The existing steel pier was cut and removed in sections. The Advance Resources, also of Waterford, that will do the phone and cable lines were relocated to clear the area for earth support around the excavation for the Stage One sec- paving and Total Fence of New Haven, Conn., that will conStage One construction. In addition, an underground gas tion of the pier has been installed and the pier footing section struct the guardrails.

The 2019 ADT for Wheeler’s Farm Road is 8064 vehicles main was modified and underground communication lines has been poured. Soon, we will pour the concrete for the pier were exposed and are to be protected and supported in place and start reconstruction of the Stage One new abutment sec- per day, while the ADT for SR 796 is approximately 60,000 vehicles per day, according to CTDOT figures.  CEG while the substructure and bridge are constructed around tions.”

The construction of a replacement bridge that carries Wheelers Farms Road over State Road 796, a short highway that connects the Merritt Parkway and Wilbur Cross Parkway to I-95 and the Boston Post Road in Milford, Conn., resumed in early April.

The job has continued during the COVID-19 pandemic with construction jobs not stopped in Connecticut. Though Gov. Ned Lamont has established business restrictions during the pandemic, he has spared the construction industry, with limitations only placed on indoor construction jobs.

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End Finally Comes in View for $100M Portsmouth Project

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Thirty-eight months into a nearly $100 million Portsmouth, N.H., wastewater project and the end is finally in sight.

Construction on the Peirce Island Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF), the largest public works project in the city’s history, got under way in 2016 after the city was ordered to upgrade the existing wastewater facility due to inadequate treatment.

The project posed a number of challenges.

The site of the facility is 3.8 acres on the tip of an island with a single bridge for access.

The new facility had to stay within the existing WWTF fence line and is located on the same island as the remnants of Fort Washington, a historical site that saw battles in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.

“This is a really neat job, said Terry Desmarais, city engineer of the city of Portsmouth. “We even had to hire a historian.”

The project involved the demolition of three buildings, the construction of four new buildings and now, a fifth, the Operations/Lab Building, currently under way.

One of the first issues was traffic and its potential impact on the historic downtown.

“We looked at barging the materials and equipment to the site because we were on a

Construction on the Peirce Island Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF), the largest public works project in the city’s history, got under way in 2016 after the city was ordered to upgrade the existing wastewater facility due to inadequate treatment.

river, but at the end of the day, we elected to do standard delivery with a stipulated haul route,” Desmarais said. “We monitored it very closely. The contractor and the city made sure everyone was following direc-

tions, safely maneuvering vehicles on site and around downtown. We got a few complaints about people not using the stipulated route. We followed up with a hot line of sorts as well as electronic communications. It

turned out to be another contractor most of the time. Over four years, we had a fine program, we had less than half a dozen fines for people going the wrong direction. That was a big deal. Ultimately, traffic impacts were not as great as people were thinking they might be.”

The project also required a great deal of attention to the staging area, including a temporary trailer complex, which resulted in the temporary loss of the public pool parking lot, a permitted snow dump area and an off-leash dog walking area, among others.

“We ended up temporarily shutting off public access to one end of the island,” Desmarais said. “People temporarily lost access to some walking trails and areas where a number of people sometimes fish and dive.”

Drone videos shot since the beginning of construction depict numerous cranes on site for nearly a year for construction of the two largest buildings. Equipment on the ground included multiple excavators and hauling equipment, which removed an estimated 10,000 cu. yds. of rock, as well as extended length excavators to allow operators to dig deeper. The project, because of the way the site is laid out, also required significant concrete work.

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The 3,762-panel array is coupled with a 280-kilowatt (kW) Energy Storage System (ESS) that will help to augment supply during peak demand cycles. This includes early morning hours when the sun isn’t strong enough to generate at full capacity while demand at the facility peaks with the startup of the quarry and asphalt plant operations.

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off the island, Desmarais said. “Anytime we had really heavy equipment, we had to analyze the ability of the bridge to hold it. Just before the job started, we replaced the deck on the bridge. We completed structural evaluations of the bridge condition every six to twelve months.”

Another consideration was the fatigue factor.

“People just get tired of construction and sometimes each other,” Desmarais said. “We spent a lot of time managing protocols for communication. We dedicate a lot of effort to making sure communications go well and when they didn’t, we try to get together and

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