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May 21 2023 Vol. VII • No. 11
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Wildish Nearing Completion of Yamhill River Bridge Wildish Construction is more than halfway finished with the $30 million project to replace a bridge over Oregon’s Yamhill River.
By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
Two years into a $30 million project to replace a bridge over Oregon’s Yamhill River, work is more than halfway complete and on time, but the final cost is expected to increase by $1 million to $2 million more than budgeted due to rising costs and an unexpected utility glitch.
“We’re about 55 percent done with the new bridge,” said Leia Kagawa, Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) assistant resident engineer. “We’ve completely removed all of the old bridge and temporarily moved traffic onto the diversion bridge immediately to the west. We’ve built the foundation and bents on the new bridge and at the end of March completed placing the girders along the new bridge. So, all of the substructure is done on the new bridge.”
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The new bridge replaces a bridge originally built in 1951 and failing under the strain of increasing traffic in the growing Yamhill County. An average of 16,000 vehicles travel the route over the bridge, which is a 3-mi. spur road leading off Highway 18 and running along the southern part of McMinnville. Crews with Wildish Construction Company, see BRIDGE page 8
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