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Published Nationally ® March 4 2018 Vol. IX • No. 5
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Repairing America’s Highway Bridges By Giles Lambertson CEG CORRESPONDENT
Jeff Martin Holds Inaugural Florida Auctions...42
Yoder & Frey Holds 2018 Florida Auctions...46
Ritchie Bros., IronPlanet Break Records in Orlando...48
Table of Contents............4 Attachment Section ..................................11-13 Trucks & Trailer Section .. ..................................22-24 Recycling Section....29-36 Auction Section.......42-51 Business Calendar ........45 Advertisers Index..........50
America’s highway bridges need repair. Everyone agrees more money needs to be spent on them. So many bridges are “structurally deficient” that every local TV news team gets to pose a nervous-looking reporter on a local bridge and infer that the structure is apt to collapse the next time they drive across it — if it doesn’t implode on camera under the weight of the reporter. In reality, of course, such collapses are extremely unlikely. Much of the consternation surrounding the nation’s bridges can be explained in the old saw about lies, damned lies, and statistics. That is, there are lots and lots of numbers attesting to the less-thanpristine condition of tens of thousands of highway bridges in the United States, but they do not necessarily add up to impending catastrophe. “It sounds very severe to a layman,” said Glenn A. Washer, a prosee BRIDGES page 10
TxDOT’s Highway Bridge Program helps improve the safety of state bridges by conducting regular inspections of structures and schedule repairs or replacement.
Lake Oroville Spillways Construction Update The Department of Water Resources (DWR) provided an update on costs and construction activities for the Lake Oroville Spillways Emergency Recovery Project. Cost Update DWR is submitting to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) estimated emergency response and recovery effort costs totaling $870 million, which covers completion of the project through January 2019. FEMA reimburses up to 75 percent of the requested costs for a federal emergency. To date, the Agency has approved reimbursement
Kelly M. Grow/California Department of Water Resources photo
An aerial drone view of the Lake Oroville flood control spillway in Butte County, Calif.
of $86.9 million of the $115.9 million submitted by DWR. • Emergency recovery: The estimated cost of the Lake Oroville Spillways Emergency Recovery Project through January 2019 is $710 million, with major components including: • $500 million for main and emergency spillways work through the contract with Kiewit Infrastructure West. • $210 million for related recovery work including debris and sediment removal, powerline replacement, permitting and developsee OROVILLE page 20