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Orting council briefed on emergency-evacuation bridge repairs; change order expected next week
Summary
City staff told the Orting City Council the emergency-evacuation bridge project has required unplanned shaft repairs and a redesign of one deep foundation shaft; staff said it will present a change order for council approval next week with preliminary cost estimates.
Orting — City staff on Wednesday told the Orting City Council that construction on the emergency-evacuation bridge has progressed but requires additional work on deep foundation shafts and that the council will be asked to approve a contractor change order next week.
Scotty Ireland, construction manager for the project, said crews have "successfully completed the repairs to the substructure portion of the work" and that four of five deep foundation shafts have been repaired. "There is a single shaft ... that cannot be relied upon to provide the structural capacity necessary for the bridge," he said, and that shaft must be redesigned before replacement work proceeds.
The briefing explained three categories of near-term costs staff expect to bring to council: (1) a…
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