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Published Nationally ® August 5 2018 Vol. IX • No. 16
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Pacific Coast Hwy. Reopens After $54M Cleanup By Katherine Devlin CEG EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Construction Safety: Deadly Serious Business...8
$27M Science Center Under Way at Santa Clarita Campus...15
Backhoe Loaders Popular as Multi-Purpose Machines...34
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Unprecedented Mud Slide On May 20, 2017, a massive landslide delivered more than 5 million cu. yds. of mud and rock down the hillside and into the Pacific Ocean, covering the highway with 40 feet of dirt along approximately one third of a mile. The slide was so massive, it created 16 acres of new beach, extending 250 ft. into the water from the existing shoreline.
Exactly 14 months after the earth gave way along Highway 1 at Mud Creek near Big Sur — also known as the Pacific Coast Highway — Caltrans held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on July 20 to officially reopen the scenic coastal roadway. The $54 million project was originally scheduled to reopen this fall, but due to an aggressive construction schedule — crews worked seven days a week from Best Approach dawn to dusk — Highway 1 Engineers considered is open two months earlier various options on how to Caltrans credits John Madonna Construction of San Louis Obispo, Calif., with a than expected. clean up the slide. Choices tireless effort to stabilize and rebuild the roadway as quickly as possible. Caltrans credits John included tunneling through Madonna Construction of the dirt; building around the The rebuilding of this section of coastline folSan Louis Obispo, Calif., with a tireless effort to lowing a massive landslide is a major milestone slide; and pushing the material into the ocean. It stabilize and rebuild the roadway as quickly as for our department. I am very proud of everyone was decided that realigning the roadway over possible. who worked on this project,” said Caltrans the slide was the safest, least expensive solution. “This has been an extraordinary achievement District 5 Director Tim Gubbins, in a press Weather conditions, stabilizing the debris and by Caltrans and John Madonna Construction. release. see HIGHWAY page 16
$270M Widening Project Under Way in Okla.
Table of Contents ............4 By Chuck Harvey
California Section .....15-21 Backhoes & Attachments Section ......................33-43 Paving Section ..........53-63 Business Calendar ........64 Auction Section ........66-69 Advertisers Index ..........70
CEG CORRESPONDENT
A $270 million Turner Turnpike expansion project, now under way in Oklahoma, includes widening a busy 22-mi. stretch of highway to six lanes on I-44 between Bristow and Tulsa. The project design increases shoulder width and provides a new median barrier wall. It also creates an urban turnpike corridor with LED lighting spanning the entire 20 mi. The turnpike has been accident prone, so much of the design focus was on creating a safer turnpike. And the safety effort will continue, as well as adjustments for growth. Crews are grading for two future lanes that will expand the stretch to eight lanes. Workers also are widening four county bridges that cross the turnpike from 18 ft. to the county standard of 28 ft. And they will construct 12 new bridges that cross over the turnpike. see TURNPIKE page 52
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority photo
A $270 million Turner Turnpike expansion project, now under way in Oklahoma, includes widening a busy 22-mi. stretch of highway to six lanes on I-44 between Bristow and Tulsa.