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® June 18 2023 Vol. XXIV • No. 13
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Q&D Restoring Slope Scour in Golden State By Irwin Rapoport
Due to serious damage caused by storms, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is working on a permanent restoration project along State Route 70 in Plumas County. Q&D Construction LLC began work on July 11, 2022, and is expected to complete the project by 2024. “This project will provide the ‘Permanent Restoration’ for roadway slope scour in response to the 2017 qualifying storm event that resulted in storm damage along the Route 70 Feather River corridor,” said Kurt Villavicencio, Caltrans Public information Officer, District 2. “It will stabilize and strengthen the roadway against future storm events and provide more effective drainage solutions.” Additional work is still required to create a more permanent solution after the roadway flooded in several locations six years ago, which caused extensive damage to the roadway and embankments. The Feather River is susceptible to Construction is performing extensive work on State Route 70 in Plumas high and frequent flood events due to the steep and narrow Q&D County, Calif., to provide a permanent restoration for roadway slope scour in river canyon and frequency of “rain on snow” events. The response to the 2017 storm event that resulted in damage along the Route 70
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Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Aggregate & Recycling Section . . . . . . . . . . . . .23-29 Attachments & Parts Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33-37 Truck & Trailer Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41-46 Business Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52 Auction Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54-59 Advertisers Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Feather River corridor.
Construction Jobs Picture Looks Bright, But Where Are the Workers? Industry Skilled Craft Worker Need Turns Into Critical Situation By Lucy Perry CEG CORRESPONDENT
Construction employment is on an upward path and that’s both good and bad. By extension, if jobs increase, so does the need for workers. And that’s the continued challenge for the industry: contractors are beating the bushes for skilled labor to meet their labor needs. The AGC reports that as the construction sector was adding 15,000 jobs in April, the industry jobless rate was falling to a record low. see JOBS page 50
Next year, the industry will need more than 342,000 new workers, on top of normal hiring, to meet industry demand.