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365 Tollway: wetland mitigation finished, gantries going up; contractor seeks early value-engineering payment and board denies advance
Summary
Engineering staff reported the wetland mitigation work complete at roughly $5.71 million, first toll gantry erected and gantry installation targeted by August; utility relocations and irrigation approvals are delaying several bridge elements; the board voted down a contractor request to advance value-engineering savings payments.
Ramon Navarro, chief construction engineer for the Hidalgo County Regional Mobility Authority, provided a project update on the 365 Tollway, reporting that several construction packages are advancing while utility relocations and irrigation-district approvals are causing localized delays.
Navarro said the wetland mitigation site, a conversion of about 23.2 acres, completed final walk-throughs and closed out at approximately $5,710,902.91, with remaining items to be addressed through Army Corps permitting and a plant-survey schedule. "We wrapped all this up for a total of approximately, it was summed out to $5,710,902.91," Navarro said, and added that the contractor provided manuals of operation to Valley Land Fund.
Navarro also reported progress on tolling integration: the first gantry for the CSET…
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