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Supervisors Approve $109,000 Change Order After Contractor Finds Unstable Base on Lemmy Project
Summary
Engineers told the board that rotten soil under planned culvert locations required concrete slab and rock to stabilize; board approved a $109,000 change order and offset it by cutting aesthetic manhole work to remain within overall budget.
The Adams County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a change order for the Lemmy levee/road project after the contractor encountered unstable material at the culvert foundations that engineers said could not support the box culverts as originally specified.
Engineer and project staff reported that when crews exposed the work area, the base material was ‘‘rotten’’ and would not provide the stability needed for the culvert installations. To avoid future failures, the county's contractor…
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