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February 3 2019 Vol. IX • No. 3
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Trains Avoid Traffic With $985.1M Fresno Trench California High-Speed Rail Authority photo
California High-Speed Rail Authority photo
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Crowds ‘Pour’ Over Latest Equipment at WOC 2019...20
The Fresno trench is part of a group of projects that run for 32 mi. between Avenue 19 in Madera County and American Avenue in Fresno County. The total cost of the projects is $985.1 million.
By Chuck Harvey CEG CORRESPONDENT
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Table of Contents ................4 Attachments Section ............ ......................................13-16 Recycling Section ........31-39 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................45-48 Business Calendar ............49 Auction Section ..........51-55 Advertisers Index ..............54
California High Speed Rail’s Fresno Trench & State Route 180 Passageway project will take trains under highways and streets to avoid car traffic. The result will be greater safety for drivers using SR 180 and other streets in Fresno. Constructing the trench is a massive job for
About 80,000 cu. yds. of dirt must be removed in digging under SR 180. About 665,000 cu. yds. of dirt will be removed from the trench.
crews because of its 2-mi. length. The even greater challenge has been residents and farmers opposed to high-speed rail cutting through the valley. Legal challenges have caused some delays. “On any project of this magnitude there will be occasional challenges over permitting, rightof-way, and construction related delays, etc.,” said Toni Tinoco, information officer II for the California High-Speed Rail Authority. “Each
design-builder has been able to overcome a number of those challenges and progress design and construction.” Construction of the Fresno trench began in 2016. Work under SR 180 is projected to be completed by the end of 2019. Completion of the entire Fresno trench project is projected for 2022. see TRENCH page 30
USACE OKs $92M Contract for Port of Corpus Christi The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) awarded a $92 million construction contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company LLC to deepen and widen the Corpus Christi Ship Channel (CCSC) from the Gulf of Mexico to Harbor Island, as part of the Channel Improvement Project (CIP). This contract will increase the depth from minus 47 ft. Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) to minus 54 ft. MLLW from the jetties at
the entrance of the ship channel to Harbor Island and will extend the CCSC into the Gulf of Mexico to minus 56 ft. MLLW. “The award of this first dredging contract is without a doubt the most important development we will see in 2019,” Port of Corpus Christi photo said Charles W. Zahn, chairman of the USACE awarded a $92 million contract to Great Port of Corpus Christi Commission. Lakes Dredge & Dock Company LLC to deepen and “Building critical infrastructure for the widen the Corpus Christi Ship Channel (CCSC) from see USACE page 42
the Gulf of Mexico to Harbor Island.