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Central Pender Park faces possible change order as contractor, engineers report wet soils and compaction issues
Summary
Pond & Company and the contractor told Pender County commissioners March 10 that wet, slow-to-dry soils at Central Pender Park are complicating compaction testing and may require a change order that could affect the project schedule.
County engineers and the construction manager told commissioners that work at Central Pender Park, which broke ground in January, is ongoing but facing site-condition challenges that could require a change order and extend the schedule.
Reynaldo Bravo of Pond & Company, the project's civil engineer and later project manager, said crews have completed site clearing, erosion-control measures and initial grading but have encountered wetter-than-expected soils that are not drying fast enough to pass compaction testing. That…
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