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May 14 2017 Vol. II • No. 10
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Sound Transit Plans $54B Infrastructure Investment Sound Transit unveiled plans to kick off one of the most ambitious public transit capital investment programs in the nation’s history. By the end of 2017, Sound Transit will be planning, designing or building 24 train and bus projects in Snohomish, King and Pierce counties. “Today we’re pushing the ‘go’ button on critical infrastructure expansions to serve the people of our region,” said Dave Somers, Sound Transit Board chair and Snohomish
County executive. “These projects will help keep commuters, freight, and our economy moving as our population grows and our congestion worsens. It’s imperative we deliver the projects voters have approved with an eye towards saving money and being as efficient as possible.” “Sound Transit is taking its game to a whole new level,” said Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff. “Delivering a program of this size and complexity requires a new set of
approaches and dramatically intensified collaboration with partners. Sound Transit is up for this challenge and will deliver.” Voters approved the $54 billion, 25-year Sound Transit 3 package, which will provide an additional 62 mi. of light rail from Tacoma to Everett. To meet the expedited timelines in the final Sound Transit 3 package, the agency will start projects sooner and collaborate with cities, stakeholders and private citizens
earlier and more intensively. The greatest potential for improvements falls in the planning, environmental and permitting phases of projects. The agency will focus on identifying preferred routes and station locations earlier; streamlining the number of alternatives studied; acquiring real estate sooner; and developing early permitting plans with partner agencies. The plan also will guide significant intersee TRANSIT page 10
Portland Water Spends $190M to Preserve Reservoir By Cindy Riley CEG CORRESPONDENT
In Oregon, an eight-year capital improvement project to update the Washington Park reservoir site is moving forward. The Portland Water Bureau is overseeing efforts to preserve the historic drinking water function and protect the area from the potentially catastrophic effects of a natural disaster. “The work is needed to replace aging infrastructure, seismic concerns and regulatory requirements,” said Stan VandeBergh, principal engineer, Portland Water Bureau. “The new 12.4 million gallon, seismically reinforced buried reservoir has been designed to withstand a major earthquake. When complete and online, the new reservoir will supply water to Portland’s west side, and serve more than 360,000 people, including all downtown businesses and residents, 20 schools, five hospital complexes, more than 60 parks and the Oregon Zoo.” VandeBergh noted the reservoirs are typically designed for 100 years of service, making the highprofile project long overdue.
Portland Water Bureau photo
In Oregon, an eight-year capital improvement project to update the Washington Park reservoir site is moving forward.
“The Washington Park reservoirs are now more than 120 years old. Condition assessments performed at the reservoir site in 1997 and 2001 confirmed the reservoirs and structures were nearing the end
of their useful service life. Portland has a schedule to replace its open finished drinking water reservoirs with enclosed storage by December 31, 2020.” The reservoirs are an essential
part of the water system serving areas west of the Willamette River in the city. The pumping facilities on the site ensure water can reach high elevations in the west hills. “As a public health agency, it’s
our responsibility to create and maintain a healthy, reliable, resilient water system for generations to come. This facility is a critical lifeline infrastructure, and must be operational during and following a major seismic event. It is a key piece of the Water Bureau’s backbone system and the Oregon Resilience Plan. “The existing reservoirs were built long before the current building code and do not meet any seismic codes. Portland has both a Cascadia Subduction Zone risk of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and several local faults capable of causing a magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquake. The reservoir sits at the base of an ancient landslide. Any construction next to the slide needs to be designed and constructed with the landslide in mind.” The 2006 federal regulation requires the city of Portland to protect its stored drinking water against contamination as part of the water quality requirements for safe drinking water. To address this requirement, the city is constructing alternative buried storage, allowing the uncovered reservoirs see WATER page 6
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Oregon Officials Consider Public Ownership of State Forest By Andrew Selsky ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALEM, Ore. (AP) The three officials responsible for Oregon’s oldest state forest staked out positions on its future, with two advocating continued public ownership and the third supporting public ownership of its old-growth areas. The fate of the Elliott State Forest, in the Coast Range, is a hot-button issue, with many demanding it remain public even though logging operations that fund the state’s schools have been in the red in recent years. Two members of the Oregon State Land Board voted in February to sell the 82,500-acre forest, with third member Gov. Kate Brown opposing. State Treasurer Tobias Read, who also is a board member, agreed with fellow Democrat Brown, and suggested that Oregon State University be given the option of buying the forest for research while still allowing public access and timber harvesting. Secretary of State Dennis Richardson, the third board member and the board’s only Republican, said on Facebook that a plan must retain options for public ownership of old growth areas. He also said any plan he
Gov. Brown is advocating providing $100 million in state bonding to the Common School Fund, allowing it to be partially decoupled from the forest so Oregon’s schools are not so financially vulnerable when the forest’s timber revenues are low. approves “must preserve the state’s reputation and the ability to negotiate agreements in good faith with business and nonprofit partners in the future.” A timber company, Lone Rock, based in Roseburg, and a partnering Indian tribe was the only outfit to propose buying the 82,500acre forest last year for the asking price of $221 million. That deal is on hold, at least for now. The Oregon Conservation Network, a coalition representing 40 conservation groups, said “the plan released by the governor’s office is an innovative approach to maintaining our commitment as a state to both education and the environment.” Brown is advocating providing $100 million in state bonding to the Common School
Fund, allowing it to be partially decoupled from the forest so Oregon’s schools are not so financially vulnerable when the forest’s timber revenues are low. After years of being profitable since 1997, net revenue from the forest fell from $5.8 million in 2012 to a loss of $1.8 million in 2014. Profitability has been borderline since then. In a statement, Read said he supports Brown’s proposal and went further, saying the state should collaborate with Oregon State University’s College of Forestry to implement and fund research on the relationship between forest management and conservation of threatened and endangered species. It is protection of such species, including the marbled murrelet, northern spotted owl,
and coastal coho salmon, that led to logging being curtailed in the state forest, which encompasses steep-sided mountains thickly covered with Douglas fir, western hemlock, western redcedar, bigleaf maple and red alder trees. Brown also outlined a habitat conservation plan in her proposal. Officials from two federal departments wrote separately in support of the plan, using identical language. Brown’s office provided copies of the letters to the media. Both the National Marines Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said they could assist in preparing a habitat conservation plan and that the framework “provides significant conservation measures and creates a viable path forward to manage the Elliott State Forest for generations to come.” Oregon State University President Edward J. Ray said in a memo to Read that the university and its forestry school are interested in supporting state efforts in the forest, and OSU would consider a purchase option. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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partnership,” said Simon Pelletier, Metso’s senior vice president of the USA and Canada market areas. PacWest Machinery provides sales, rental and aftermarket support for a full line of general production, road machinery, compact equipment and specialty machines from leading suppliers including
Volvo Construction Equipment, Roadtec, GOMACO, Etnyre, Tymco, SDLG, Furukawa, Genesis and others. PacWest Machinery provides equipment and aftermarket services from four facilities located in Seattle and Spokane, Wash., and Portland and Eugene, Ore., plus responsive sup-
port from remote service technicians and an extensive mobile service fleet. Metso is an industrial company serving the mining, aggregates, recycling, oil, gas, pulp, paper and process industries. Metso helps its customers improve their operational efficiency, reduce risks and
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Water Bureau Oversees Washington Park Restoration WATER from page 1
to be taken off-line. Access to the construction site is a concern, because of its location in a public park nested in a residential neighborhood with limited access. “In September, one of the first oversized deliveries of construction equipment was delivered to the site. This equipment delivery consisted of soldier pile drill equipment and a mobile crane brought to the site by a 130-foot oversized truck and trailer. The local neighborhood and park visitors can expect similar traffic disruptions throughout the life of the construction project. Project staff is working hard to manage these impacts by effective traffic management planning and timing of deliveries.” VandeBergh said, overall, there has been positive support for the process and design for the visible features of the project. The public continues to be informed through monthly updates to stakeholders, website updates, media advisories and periodic briefings to business and neighborhood associations. For organizers, watching the project unfold is extremely rewarding. “The Portland Water Bureau is proud of its role as a regional leader in building and maintaining seismically sound infrastructure. Constructing this new reservoir is a once-in-a-lifetime project that will provide safe drinking water to the next generations of Portlanders.” The project is reportedly expected to cost about $190 million. Construction began in May 2016, and will proceed through 2020. A pause in construction is scheduled from 2020 to 2022 to allow soil to settle. From 2022 to 2024, construction of interpretive features, including the two reflecting pools and surface features, will complete the project. Since late spring, construction activities have included disconnecting existing pipes from the reservoirs, fencing the project limits, setting up erosion control and traffic control, as well as removing, protecting and storing the historic wrought iron fence, removing grillage in the reservoirs and overseeing site mobilization. Current and upcoming work involves tree and vegetation clearing, major earthwork, construction of upper and lower shoring walls and construc-
tion of underground Reservoir 3. “This is a large, complicated construction project,” said VandeBergh. “There is an active, ancient landslide in the park, exacerbated by original reservoir construction and logging of the area in the 1800s. The new buried reservoir will be located just outside of the landslide limits. Excavations will be staged such that impacts to the landslide will be limited. This will be accomplished by limiting excavations to 50 feet laterally, requiring backfill prior to continuing the excavation.” During construction, activities that may impact the landslide will be monitored using various methPortland Water Bureau photo
The new construction will be integrated with existing historic structures and features.
Portland Water Bureau photo
Portland Water Bureau photo
The Portland Water Bureau is overseeing efforts to preserve the historic drinking water function and protect the area from the potentially catastrophic effects of a natural disaster.
This equipment delivery consisted of soldier pile drill equipment and a mobile crane brought to the site by a 130-ft. oversized truck and trailer.
ods and instruments including slope inclinometers, survey points and an optical survey monitoring system that provides near real time monitoring. The job site is in one of Portland’s busiest city parks, surrounded by residential neighborhoods, making it difficult to deliver construction materials. The use of the park by the public and the residential neighborhood will make ingress and egress to the construction site a safety challenge. The new construction will be integrated with existing historic structures and features. This will require greater care by the contractor then what may typically occur in a conventional construction project. Work will occur adjacent to historic structures that are to be preserved during the course of construction.
“Construction will largely be within the historic district on city of Portland property,” said VandeBergh. “An extensive design process has considered how to accommodate or restore historic elements, and how to incorporate new elements in deference to the historic district. This process considered feedback from the community and guidance from historic preservation groups including the State Historic Preservation Office, Portland Historic Landmarks Commission and the Historic Resource Committee of the local American Institute of Architects chapter.” Current plans include maintaining and restoring some historic elements, such as the dams and gatehouses. Other elements, such as the ransome glass, are not able to be maintained, but will be preserved
in interpretive elements. According to VandeBergh, more than 200 trees will come down during construction. “The Portland Water Bureau worked with horticulture experts to create the tree mitigation plan and partnered with the city forester and Portland Parks and Recreation to ensure only trees that are invasive or impact the reservoir construction project are removed. To be in compliance with the city’s new tree policy, we will be planting 693 new trees on site and have paid City Urban Forestry $257,400 so that they may plant additional trees within the city. The city removed trees from May 2016 through October 2016. The trees and vegetation were removed using conventional equipment including chain saws, trackhoes, trucks and wood chippers. Nearly half the
native trees removed will be used in river habitat restorations projects and for exhibits at the Oregon Zoo. The most time-consuming part of this project is the construction of the new buried concrete reinforced reservoir. “This will take approximately three years. The duration is due to site access limitations, the necessity for the two shoring walls, the drilled shafts and limitation imposed on excavations due to the existing landslide. Since the construction of the reservoir is located near the toe of the landslide, the geotechnical engineer is limiting the widths of excavation to 50 lateral feet. Excavation must be backfilled prior to additional excavation.” For the first phase of construction, the typical work day will be see WATER page 8
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Portland Water Project Integrates Historic, New Features WATER from page 6
between 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. However, unrestricted work may stretch into the early evening hours. At times, crews may be needed on Saturdays for critical concrete pours, with some nighttime and Sunday scheduling. At the peak of construction, there will be approximately 100 crew members on site. During the two-year pause in construction, onsite personnel will be limited to a few workers, if erosion control requires maintenance. The final phase, which includes constructing the visible features, will require between 30 and 40 workers at peak times. Because of the complexity and varying elements of the project, there will be a variety of construction equipment used, including backhoes, trackhoes, on and offroad dump trucks, two tower cranes, mobile cranes, a Klemm drill rig for tie-back anchors and a Bauer rotary drilling rig for drilled shafts, grout plant and concrete pumps. Based on the buried conventional reinforced concrete reservoir, piping, and visible features, there will be numerous building materials required, such as concrete, reinforcing steel, crushed rock, native soils, recycled concrete, wrought iron, shotcrete, expanded polystyrene geofoam, lightweight cellular concrete, conventional piping, soldier piles, tie back anchors, asphalt concrete, pavers and grasscrete. The goal is to repurpose as much of the excavated soils as possible. Approximately 86,000 cu. yds. of material will be removed from the Reservoir 3 area and renching for pipes that will remain on site and be utilized as fill in the Reservoir 4 basin area. There will be approximately 110,000 cu. yds. of materials imported on site including general fill, mechanically stabilized earth wall fill, reinforced soils slope fill, base rock and drain rock. There will be approximately 14,000 cu. yds. of lightweight cellular concrete fill. The excavation for the new buried reservoir requires two shoring walls, including a maximum 26-ft. tall, 826-ft. long temporary tied back soldier pile shoring wall that allows access to
build an estimated 55-ft. tall, 640ft. long permanent tied back soldier pile shoring wall. The temporary shoring wall will be in place up to five years, and will be designed with permanent shoring wall loading, including seismic and corrosion protection for the tied back anchors. The excavated material for the shoring walls will remain on site and be utilized as fill within the existing Reservoir 4 basin for fill. Erosion control measures will be monitored daily throughout the life of the project. A total of three agencies permit and monitor efforts. When there is a conflict between requirements, the construction contract requires the most stringent requirement to apply. Work on Reservoir 3 includes construction of the shoring walls and excavation for the new buried reservoir and transfer of soil to the Reservoir 4 basin. Once the excaPortland Water Bureau photo
The reservoirs are typically designed for 100 years of service, making the high-profile project long overdue.
Portland Water Bureau photo
A pause in construction is scheduled from 2020 to 2022 to allow soil to settle.
vation is made, the drilled shafts will be installed along with the Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) wall to the west of the new reservoir. This will be followed by construction of the reinforced concrete reservoir. The project site and geology is not typical of a reservoir site. The new buried reservoir will be founded on drilled shafts that are socketed into bedrock. The back fill that will surround the reservoir will be in excess of 50 ft. in depth and will be placed on more than 70 ft. of compressible soils that are antici-
pated to settle approximately 12 in. The visible features, including the reflecting pool, will be constructed over both the reservoir and the settling soils resulting in a discreet, differential settlement of approximately 12 in. The two-year pause is to allow for the soils to settle. The settlement will be monitored with settlement plates and survey points. When the settlement reaches tolerable levels, the visible features, including the reflecting pool, will be constructed. Looking ahead, construction of interpretive features, including two
reflecting pools, will require a great deal of planning. Although the construction of the visible features will be similar to construction of typical park features and plazas, the challenge will be to preserve historic features while complementing them with new ones. This will include flatwork, landscape plantings, historic concrete restoration, preserving and restoring the gatehouses, mechanical systems for the reflecting pools (including recirculation and filtering) and lighting. Disconnecting Reservoir 4 from the public drinking water system will occur concurrently with construction of the new buried reservoir and is scheduled to be completed by Dec. 31, 2020. Disconnecting the reservoir consists of physically cutting the inlet and outlet piping that connects to the active water system. The existing Reservoir 4 is an open, uncovered finished drinking water reservoir and is required to be either covered or treated at the outlet by federal law. The elevation of Reservoir 4 is no longer needed in the water system. Reservoir 4 is
not being replaced with covered storage. Some of the reduced storage needs is the result of increased conservation and loss of industry in the northwest area which was served from Washington Park. The Water Bureau has determined that the loss of emergency storage in Washington Park can be compensated for with storage on the east side and improved transmission, which includes a planned new crossing under the Willamette River. According to Bob Ward, vice president of West Yost Associates, “The biggest design challenge was designing a reservoir at the toe of a landslide that will be functional during and after a Cascadia earthquake, while meeting the historical and park requirements that are inherent when replacing a 100year-old facility.” Many of the concepts from LEED and Envision were incorporated into the project to enhance sustainability. Sustainability is a cornerstone value for Portland Water Bureau and the design team. It was considered for design, construction and operation of the facility. A specific example is the effort made to reuse materials on site, which eliminated a considerable amount of trucking. Said Ward, “This is a rewarding project to be part of, because of the technical challenges of the design, the opportunity to add public features to an Olmsted inspired park and the team of Portland Water Bureau, Hoffman Construction and the designers who are working together to make the project a success.” As for taking on a project that will last for years with so many different parts, “The planning and coordination required to meet the regulatory deadline of covering the reservoir by 2020, working on the historical features and providing the reflecting pool as a public amenity by 2024 make the project fun. The duration and the many aspects of the project make it interesting and challenging, not more difficult.” (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
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Sound Transit to Expand Service in Three Counties TRANSIT from page 1
nal process improvements. Project teams will include all disciplines, with a focus on integrating work functions across departments, eliminating departmental hand-offs between project phases. Co-location of staff for each project in the same work space will increase efficiency. Upcoming transit expansions will dramatically increase ridership, as previewed by the more than 80 percent growth in Link light rail ridership since Sound Transit opened its University of Washington and Angle Lake extensions last year. By 2040, overall weekday system ridership is projected to grow from 147,000 today to up to 695,000. To prepare, internal changes will increase the agency’s focus on customers’ experience, including everything from facility designs to technologies to signage. The plan was developed by staff members from across the agency and informed by input from local and national transit agencies, federal and state partners, and trade organizations. Last week Sound Transit executed the latest step toward moving forward with further expansions, issuing a request for qualifications that will help identify the consultant that later this year will support kicking off planning for light rail between West Seattle, Downtown Seattle and Ballard. This summer and fall, the agency also will solicit bids to begin planning for the Federal WayTacoma light rail extension, bus rapid transit projects on I-405 and SR 522, and Sounder south line capital improvements. Light rail will move closer to Snohomish County next year as Sound Transit begins construction of Lynnwood Link and construction of East Link light rail will continue to intensify. With the November 2016 adoption of Sound Transit 3, the people of the Central Puget Sound region took a historic action to continue building the true mass transit system that has been talked about for decades. ST3 is equal in scope and timeline to the first two phases (Sound Move and Sound Transit 2) combined. It will establish a 116-mi. light rail network with more than 80 stations serving 16 cities, growing five-fold beyond its current size, at a scale comparable to the largest systems in the country. By 2021, Sound Transit will complete light rail to the U District, Roosevelt and Northgate. In 2023 trains will reach Mercer Island, Bellevue, Overlake/Redmond, Shoreline, Mountlake Terrace and Lynnwood. From there, Sound Transit will keep building until the agency has completed the 116-mi. system. Next up will be getting light rail to Federal Way and downtown Redmond in 2024. From there, continuing expansions will focus on Tacoma, West Seattle, Ballard, Everett, South Kirkland and
Issaquah. Improvements also are coming to Sounder commuter rail service, which will serve 13 cities when planned extensions to Tillicum and DuPont are complete. Following the establishment of bus rapid transit along the north, east and south sides of Lake Washington the agency's ST Express system will serve 26 cities. The plan integrates recently approved ST3 projects with projects voters approved in 2008 as part of Sound Transit 2. Highlights of project schedules in the plan
include the following: South Corridor • light rail from Angle Lake to Federal Way will enter final design in 2017 toward a 2024 opening; • light rail from Federal Way to Tacoma will enter development in 2017 toward a 2030 opening; • the Tacoma Link extension to Hilltop will continue in final design toward a 2018 launch of construction and a 2022 opening; • Puyallup and Sumner station access
improvements will enter final design in 2017 toward openings in 2021; • development of Kent and Auburn station access improvements will move forward in 2017 and 2018 toward 2023 openings; • South Sounder capital improvements to increase capacity and station access from Lakewood will enter development in 2017 toward openings between 2024 and 2036; • extension of Sounder to Joint Base Lewis McChord and DuPont will enter development in 2025 toward a 2036 opening; and • the Tacoma Link extension to Tacoma Community College will enter development in 2026 toward a 2039 opening. North Corridor • construction of light rail from the University of Washington to Northgate will continue toward a 2021 opening; • final design of light rail from Northgate to Lynnwood will continue toward a 2018 launch of construction and 2023 opening; • bus rapid transit on SR-522 and 145th will enter development in 2017 toward an opening in 2024; • light rail from Lynnwood to Everett via Paine Field will enter development in 2020 toward a 2036 opening; and • North Sounder parking and access improvements at Mukilteo and Edmonds will enter development in 2017 toward completions in 2024. Central Corridor • light rail between West Seattle and Downtown Seattle will enter development in 2017 toward a scheduled 2030 opening; and • light rail between Ballard and Downtown Seattle, with a new tunnel through Downtown Seattle, will enter development in 2017 toward a 2035 opening.
East Corridor • construction of light rail from Seattle to Redmond's Overlake area will continue toward a 2023 opening; • development of light rail from Overlake to Downtown Redmond will continue toward a 2024 opening; • bus rapid transit on I-405 will enter development in 2017 toward a 2024 opening; • the North Sammamish Park-and-Ride will enter development in 2017 toward a 2024 opening; and • light rail between South Kirkland, Bellevue and Issaquah will enter development in 2027 toward a 2041 opening. For more information, visit soundtransit.org. (This story also can be found on By the end of 2017, Sound Transit will be planning, designing or building 24 train Construction Equipment Guide’s website at and bus projects in Snohomish, King and Pierce counties. www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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Efficiency & High Performance.
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