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For more information contact:
Judith Partee, Project Engineer, Wildish Standard Paving, (866) 305-5898
Julianne Repman, Public Information, ODOT, (541) 388-6224
Business 97: COID and NUID Canal Bridge in Bend
Wildish Standard Paving Company crews will reduce traffic on Business 97 to one lane in each direction at the Central Oregon Irrigation District (COID) and North Unit Irrigation District Canal (NUID) Bridge Project for one night during the week of March 28 to allow for final grinding, weather permitting. This lane closure will take place between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Contractors anticipate reducing traffic to one-lane in each direction, for one night in April, when temperatures become sufficiently warm enough to perform paving work in the area. This lane closure will take place from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Motorists will be directed to the appropriate lanes by signs, barricades, cones and intermittent use of flaggers during these lane reductions. Access to businesses and on-and-off-ramps for the US 97 bypass will be fully accessible during working hours.
About the Project
Contractors have filled the preexisting space between the existing canal pipe and bridge with a control density fill (CDF) material. This eliminated the need to replace the aging bridge and significantly reduced impact to motorists. The CDF method allowed crews to work under reduced travel lanes during evening hours and to reopen the roadway to all lanes during daylight hours for a period of eight-to-ten weeks. The bridge replacement alternative would have required a full closure of the bridge for as many as four months.
This project, is part of a $30.5 million contract awarded to Wildish Standard Paving to replace 11 bridges on U.S. 26, U.S. 97 and Oregon 224 and is funded by the Oregon Transportation Investment Act (OTIA) http://www.odot.state.or.us/otia/otia3index.htm. The OTIA III State Bridge Delivery Program is part of the Oregon Department of Transportation's 10-year, $3 billion Oregon Transportation Investment Act program. During the next decade, OTIA will repair or replace hundreds of bridges, pave and maintain city and county roads, improve and expand interchanges, add new capacity to Oregon's highway system, and remove freight bottlenecks statewide. About 18 family-wage jobs are sustained for every $1 million spent on transportation construction in Oregon. Each year during the OTIA program, construction projects will sustain about 5,000 family-wage jobs.
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