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this is pretty ridiculous with everyone saying that the reason why its taking so long is because of contamination and they need to be careful with drilling the beams near the 91 beams not to damage anything all those excuses would be okay if someone was working there today what's going on anyone know.
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Res (Registered User)
I drive past numerous days per week and never see anyone.
In the winter, I was told they could not work on the bridge because of the weather, but now it's just inexcusable. They can fix I-95 two years ahead of schedule, but can't handle this? It's shameful.
henry (Guest)
Res (Registered User)
Last I was told, they were looking to open State Street to traffic again in August of 2014.
Get everyone you know to contact Karyn Gilvarg in City Planning and Gholamali Moslehi, the City Engineer.
KGilvarg@newhavenct.net
Gholamali J. Moslehi, P.E.
Chief Structural Engineer
(203) 946-8095
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Res (Registered User)
Anonymous (Guest)
This project has gone on for a very long time and has put an incredible amount of stress on local merchants and neighbors. I have been working with Rep. Lemar and representatives from Engineering to see if there is anything to do to expedite the process. At this point, I don't think there is anything to be done to move it to resolution faster--they have encountered a multitude of technical and geotechnical concerns along the way, and the people with expertise in these issues are working to address them. I wanted to share a status report from the State DOT (below) and that the current estimate for re-opening the bridge to traffic is at the end of calendar year 2014.
PROJECT 92-561 STATE STREET BRIDGE OVER THE MILL RIVER - NEW HAVEN
STATUS REPORT
Replacement of the State Street Bridge over the Mill River in New Haven was awarded to C.J. Fucci Inc. in April 2009. It involves complete removal of the existing abutments and pier and will be replaced by a single span bridge comprised of precast concrete beams. Full depth roadway reconstruction will be done to both approaches to the bridge which will have two ten foot lanes in each direction. The following is a brief summation of the events resulting in the prolonged duration of construction activities for this project.
The State Street Bridge Project began in May, 2009. Soon after work began, the project was impacted by an unexpected conflict with a 42” Water main that is property of the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority (RWA). This water main is a primary facility for the City of New Haven’s water supply. Due to the close proximity of the water main to the work area, concern over damage to the pipe from excavations and vibrations, required the RWA to relocate the 42” main a clear and safe distance. This relocation commenced in June, 2010 and was completed September 2010.
Following the relocation of the water main, C.J. Fucci, the Department’s Contractor, was able to re-start construction activities. Fucci began with drainage installation on and around State Street, while maintaining alternating one way travel lanes on the bridge during working hours.
In order to demolish the structure and reconstruct the new Bridge, the original State Street Bridge was closed in October, 2010. All these construction activities were supposed to be completed within 365 days (1 year) of closing the bridge.
Once the bridge was closed, the Contractor began with the removal of the superstructure, abutments and pier. This was followed by the installation of temporary sheet piling in order to construct a “cofferdam”, to dewater the work area, so the reconstruction of the substructure can be performed in “dry” conditions.
The Contractor encountered conflicts in February, 2011 during the installation of the sheet piling cofferdam with the existing Piles supporting the footings for the I-91 bridge structure. This conflict caused a delay because the cofferdam was unable to be constructed as per Plan. A re-design of the cofferdam was completed by our Designer and operations commenced by March 2011.
The Contractor began excavation for the existing east substructure in June, 2011. Immediately upon starting the excavation, it was determined that existing groundwater was contaminated and required additional treatment not included in the original design. Operations were halted on the East substructure while a remedy was being designed. To minimize a delay to the contract as a whole, direction was given to the Contractor to relocate and commence operations on the West substructure in order keep operations moving. Once the Contractor began excavating on the West side, more contaminated soil and groundwater was encountered. This lead to a stoppage to all operations until a complete redesign of the Handling Contaminated Groundwater along with Bridge Piles and Footings was complete.
A complete re-design for both proposed abutments was provided to the Contractor in January 2012 utilizing steel H-Piles. Test pile operations were performed in the month of July 2012 with results sent to design. The contractor was given pile order lengths and production piles started being driven at the west abutment in January 2013. During the driving of piles at the west abutment in February 2013, settlement of some of the surrounding structures resulting from seismic vibrations caused by pile driving became evident. This prompted the temporary stoppage of pile operations until the settlement could be addressed. The settlement was a very serious issue due to the concerns for the I-91 Bridge adjacent to the site, which was one of the structures that settled. In addition a significant water line supplying the city had to be shut down and a bypassed utilized. Design provided new pile driving guidelines and restrictions, as well as, a ramped up monitoring program to closely monitor any additional settlement. Pile driving operations resumed at the proposed west abutment at the end of April 2013 and were completed June 2013. The reset of the work to build the west abutment has been continuing and is progressing as we speak.
As result of the settlement to some of the surrounding structures, design provided new plans and specification on June 18, 2013 for the use of Micro Piles, which are drill in verses hammered in, in lieu of steel H-Piles at the proposed east abutment foundation. The contractor is currently coordinating with their subcontractor for the preliminary work associated with micro pile prices and plan submittals.
The contractor's new revised Project Schedule is being assembled for submission and review by the Department being they have received full direction on how to overcome the obstacles preventing construction of the bridge. It has preliminarily been forecasted that micro piles at the proposed east abutment could be completed in the spring of 2014 and that the bridge could be open to traffic in mid-summer of 2014 barring any further complications; with a Project Completion Fall of 2014.
Res (Registered User)
Thank you for sharing this.
It is definitely impacting merchants. Just go down there and you see how dead the area is.
Res (Registered User)
Delayed again! New story on it today.
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/state_street_bridge_to_open_..._in_2014/
Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking (Registered User)
here's a link to the map: http://www.dotdata.ct.gov/iti/master_iti.html
Kam Lasater (Registered User)
Here is the update from the referenced site:
Replacement of the State Street Bridge over the Mill River between Lawrence Street and James Street in New Haven
UPDATE- Completion of work extended to Fall 2014. DETOUR INFO- State Street closed to traffic between the intersections of Lawrence Street and James Street. Detour signs have been installed to assist motorists around the road closure. Truck traffic must follow posted detour route. Automobile and Pedestrian Detour: East Street to Lombard Street to James Street. Truck Detour: East Street to Grand Avenue to James Street to Lombard Street to Blatchley Avenue.
Res (Registered User)
City of New Haven (Verified Official)
http://www.dotdata.ct.gov/iti/master_iti.html to view the mapped location with details on the project, including addtional contact information. Thank you.
City of New Haven (Verified Official)
BillyR (Registered User)
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Res (Registered User)
BL (Registered User)
City of New Haven (Verified Official)
City of New Haven (Verified Official)
City of New Haven (Verified Official)
City of New Haven (Verified Official)
State St. Bridge Update:
Link to Recent NHI article: http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/state_bridge_set_to_reopen_in_2016_maybe/
Link to State St Bridge Construction Updates:
http://gm2inc.com/statestreet/
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