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State Police, Officials Break Ground on Oregon’s Fallen Trooper Memorial
Excavators lower part of a turnout track near Nisqually as part of the new route trains will use in and out of Tacoma.
The memorial will feature a black basalt wall with the names of fallen troopers. In the center will be a map of Oregon with stars showing where each death occurred. An unfinished column will be placed in the middle to symbolize troopers who will never be able to finish their job.
By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
After five years of planning and fundraising, crews broke ground on June 14 in Salem for the Oregon State Police Fallen Troopers Memorial. The memorial will honor 33 Oregon State Police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty. “This is the most in-the-line-ofduty deaths of any law enforcement agency in the state of Oregon,” said OSP Lt. Cari Boyd, president of the committee charged with raising the $235,000 to fund the memorial. The memorial was inspired by the loss of the life of Senior Trooper William Hakim, who was killed in 2008 in a bomb explosion, Boyd said. At the time of his death, there
was a plaque outside the OSP headquarters honoring fallen troopers, but Hakim’s name could not be placed on the plaque because there was no room. “At the time, superintendent Tim McLain thought this was a huge injustice that Senior Trooper Bill Hakim could not be brought home,” Boyd told the gathering at the Flag Day groundbreaking. “He thought of the vision of having the foundation, and building this memorial to honor our fallen troopers. This memorial will show the dedication and honor our fallen troopers that have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Millions of people will get to see it every year as they come and visit the capital.” The memorial will feature a black
WSDOT, Tacoma VIPs Celebrate Station Construction Kickoff
basalt wall with the names of fallen troopers. In the center will be a map of Oregon with stars showing where each death occurred. An unfinished column will be placed in the middle to symbolize troopers who will never be able to finish their job. “We are so proud to be a part of this,” said Gene Bolante, lead architect at Studio 3 Architecture, designers of the memorial. White Oak Construction, based in Salem, was selected to construct the memorial. The memorial is unique in part because it is being built out of locally sourced materials, and it may be the only one of its kind, said White Oak Construction project manager Dan Wellert. “I’m not aware of anything that is
City, state and railroad officials celebrated the start of construction of the new Amtrak Cascades station in Tacoma’s Freighthouse Square with a construction kickoff ceremony on July 13. The 100,000-sq.-ft. (9,290 sq m) station will be a new structure that replaces an existing portion of the historic Freighthouse Square building. It is adjacent to Sound Transit’s Sounder station in the building and across the street from the Pierce Transit Tacoma Dome Station. The ceremony celebrates the station’s construction and a new era in train travel. The station was designed to align with ongoing transit-oriented development within Tacoma’s Dome District, aimed at further developing the area as a vibrant transit hub that includes retail and residential spaces. The ceremony will include speakers from Tacoma and the Washington State Department of Transportation, as well as congressional and community representatives. “This is an important milestone for Washington’s high-speed rail program and the city of Tacoma,” said Ron Pate, director of WSDOT’s Rail, Freight and Ports Division. “This station helps improve passenger train travel throughout the Amtrak Cascades corridor and we’re pleased to celebrate with community and state officials.”
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Remembering Idaho’s Teton Dam Collapse 40 Years Later By Luke Ramseth and Bryan Clark IDAHO FALLS POST REGISTER
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) Phone lines were knocked out. Highways were blocked. What Idaho residents heard on June 5, 1976, over the only reliable form of immediate communication — the radio airwaves — was incomprehensible. “The dam has busted,’’ Don Ellis said on Rexburg station KRXK. Carol Sorensen of Sugar City talks about the massive cleanup job she and her family faced. Her 10year-old son’s friend called to alert them 15 minutes before the water hit their house, she said. As the world soon learned, the 305-ft.-high Teton Dam had broken in half. Its collapse sent a wall of water through the Teton River canyon, north of the town of Newdale in Fremont County. Downstream, with no canyon to contain it, the flood fanned out for miles across the Snake River Plain. The water turned south, gobbling www.waterarchives.org photo up cattle, cars and homes Demolition of Johnson Drug and Hardware building, East Main Street. on its slow march to Idaho Falls and beyond. Forty years later, many Eastern Idaho residents dozer onto the top of the seen David.’’ The Man Who Rode vividly recall the chaos set dam to try to stem the leakAfter a long struggle, Grigg the Flood in motion that sunny ing, according to an Perhaps nobody had a closer popped to the surface. He grabbed Saturday morning. Eleven account he gave for the view of the flood than Daryl a log to stay afloat. He cussed, then people died and thousands Teton Oral History Wayne Grigg, a sawmill worker prayed. “I just figured it was all more were displaced in Program, a joint effort to from St. Anthony. Grigg recounted over with,’’ he said. the flood, considered the document the disaster by his story in 1977 for the Teton Oral As he floated downriver, Grigg worst man-made disaster Ricks College (BYU- History Program. watched homes float off their founin Idaho history. Crops Idaho), Utah State When the dam broke, Grigg was dations. His log slammed into were ruined and thouUniversity and several fishing with friend David Benson another, breaking five of his ribs www.waterarchives.org photo sands of livestock were foundations. on a small island in the Teton River and puncturing a lung. An aerial view of broken dam. killed. Total damage esti“I don’t think we can about 2 mi. below the dam, a place After a 3-mi. ride, Grigg manmates reached $2 billion — $8.4 collapsed. Its 17-mi.-long reservoir stop it,’’ Calderwood remembered they had visited many times aged to climb a cottonwood tree. was nearly full. billion in today’s dollars. thinking. before. Grigg and Benson had just He told the interviewer he didn’t The first hints of trouble came as And almost nobody saw it comBut he tried. A massive set foot on the island when they recall much after that. After four ing. In fact, when people heard ini- the new reservoir continued to fill whirlpool had formed next to the noticed an airplane flying low. The hours in the tree, he was rescued by tial reports, they refused to believe in the early days of June. An dam, the water disappearing far pilot was waving at them. They friends in a boat. Benson’s body inspection team noticed on June 3 beneath them. Along with other didn’t recognize him but figured was found about a quarter-mile it. “Naturally, I thought it was a that water was seeping from the workers, Calderwood pushed maybe they knew him. They from the cottonwood tree. hoax of some kind,’’ said John C. ground at several locations down- boulders into the whirlpool to try to waved back. The interviewer asked Grigg Porter, then the mayor of Rexburg, stream from the dam. At 7 a.m. plug the breach. Then they felt the whether he supported the dam Suddenly, the river rose by 6 ft. in an LDS church oral history. “We June 5, workers noticed the first dam shift beneath their tractors. Grigg looked upstream and saw a when its construction was being had lived in the shadows of dams seep on the dam face itself. By “We were backing across the 30-ft. wall of water crashing down debated several years prior. for years in Idaho, and nothing had midmorning, a large wet spot had dam and had the dozers in reverse the canyon. “I was for it,’’ Grigg said. “ But formed. ever happened.’’ when the dam fell through,’’ he I’m opposed to it now.’’ “I turned and yelled at David, Jay Calderwood, a heavy equip- said. “It caved right in front of us. telling him to jump in the river,’’ ment operator, helped build the While we were backing away, we Grigg told the Oral History On the Scene of Recording Chaos dam. At 10:30 a.m. on June 5 he kept thinking it was going to cave Program. “That is what I did. We the Collapse From the Air The Teton Dam had been fin- got a call at his Victor home. After behind us and take us with it. But it started swimming, but that didn’t In the Post Register newsroom, ished for less than a year when it racing to the scene, he drove a bull- never did.’’ see DAM page 10 work. That was the last time I have
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ACE Denies Permit for $700M Project...
Corps: Coal Terminal Violates Tribal Rights, Won’t Permit By Phuong Le ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE (AP) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit to a $700 million project to build the nation’s largest coalexport terminal in northwest Washington state, handing a striking victory to the Lummi tribe, which argued the project would violate its treaty-protected fishing rights. The decision ends the federal environmental review of a deepwater port that would have handled up to 59 million tons (54 million t) of dry bulk commodities, mostly coal, at Cherry Point. The venture between SSA Marine and Cloud Peak Energy proposed receiving coal by train from Montana and Wyoming for export to Asia. Col. John Buck, commander of the corps’ Seattle district, said the project can’t be permitted because the impacts from the trestle and
three-vessel wharf would interfere with the tribe’s treaty rights to fish in its traditional areas. “The corps may not permit a project that abrogates treaty rights,” Buck said. The Lummi Nation said the Corps honored its treaty with the U.S. and recognized that the project would hurt the tribe’s fishing rights. “It’s great news for the Lummi, a great win for treaty rights and Indian country,” said Tim Ballew, chairman of the tribe with more than 5,000 members and one of the largest tribal fishing fleets in the country. “The record established, and everybody knew, this project would have negative impacts to treaty fishing rights.” Like many tribes, the Lummi signed a treaty with the U.S. in 1855 in which it ceded its land but reserved the right to hunt and fish in “usual and accustomed” areas. Project developers said they are considering all alternatives.
“This is an inconceivable decision,” Bob Watters, president of Pacific International Terminal LLC, said in a statement. “Looking at the set of facts in the administrative summary, it’s quite obvious this is a political decision and not fact based.” Project developers had argued that the most productive fishing for the tribe does not occur near the wharf and that the tribe didn’t provide real evidence that they fished or crabbed a lot in the area, about 100 mi. (161 km) north of Seattle. But the Corps said the tribe showed evidence that members fish near the proposed dock and did so regularly. The agency said the pier itself would impact the tribe’s fishing rights, and that measures proposed by developers wouldn’t minimize those effects. At a minimum, 122 acres of the tribe’s fishing grounds would be impacted. Opponents had criticized the project over concerns about air and
water pollution, coal dust, train traffic and carbon emissions from burning coal, while supporters touted good-paying jobs and tax revenue. “We’re totally at a crossroad and the Northwest stood up and said we’re not going to allow this to happen in our own backyard,” said Beth Doglio, co-chair of Power Past Coal, a coalition of more than 100 groups opposed to coal exports. She said continuing to build new fossil fuel infrastructure and helping coal be burned overseas while climate change is raging is not the direction the region should be headed. Meanwhile, Montana U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke and the Alliance for Northwest Jobs and Exports, a trade group, criticized the Corps for issuing a decision before the environmental analysis was complete. Zinke said in a statement the project is “incredibly important to
Operations Begin at DOE’s Idaho Site Operational responsibilities for environmental management work at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho operations office were transitioned to Fluor Idaho LLC, marking the start of a five-year contract to support cleanup at the department’s Idaho site. “We’re looking forward to working with our teaming partners and DOE to continue the impressive cleanup work that is taking place here in Idaho,” said Fred Hughes, Fluor Idaho president and program manager. “This is extremely important work for the residents of Idaho and for the longterm mission of the Idaho National Laboratory.” Fluor Idaho will focus on safely integrating, accelerating and delivering the Idaho cleanup mission, including processing transuranic waste for disposal, completing buried waste retrieval, and managing spent nuclear fuel and high level radioactive waste. The work consolidates the Idaho Cleanup Project and Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project contracts, and will support multiple national and state regulatory agreements, including the 1995 Idaho Settlement Agreement. The start of operations ends a three-month transition period that Fluor Idaho personnel have spent becoming familiar with the facilities, processes and personnel performing cleanup work at the Idaho site. Fluor Idaho will lead a workforce of approximately 1,700 personnel, the vast majority of whom were performing cleanup work with the incumbent contractors. “The Fluor Idaho management team has developed an immense amount of respect for the workforce that has been
performing cleanup work,” said Hughes. “These employees and their shared values and professional capabilities are responsible for some of the most impressive cleanup accomplishments in the DOE complex. Given the hazards inherent in cleanup work, the safe, questioning attitude of employees is invaluable to Fluor Idaho’s successful operations.” Fluor Idaho’s presence also will be noticeable in the community. “We understand the responsibility of being a solid corporate neighbor,” said Hughes. “Fluor Idaho is committed to investing our time, talent and funding in the economic health of the community and to making our presence in eastern Idaho visible and appreciable. “We are excited to get started on what we are certain will be a highly successful mission,” Hughes said. “We look forward to helping DOE meet its cleanup mission at the Idaho site, building on the momentum that the incumbent employees have already created, and serving the communities where our employees live.” Fluor Idaho is wholly owned by Fluor Corporation, a global engineering and construction firm headquartered in Irving, Texas, that designs and builds some of the world’s most complex projects. Fluor leads a team that includes subcontractors CH2M, waste control specialists, and Idahobased small businesses North Wind, Inc. and Portage, Inc. For more information, visit https://idahocleanupproject.com/. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
Montana, the Crow, and even to the blue collar workers in Washington State because it is literally the gateway to economic prosperity and rising out of poverty.” The Crow Nation of Montana has an option for ownership in the new terminal. Project developers had asked state and federal regulators to temporarily halt an environmental review that began in 2013, while the Corps heard the Lummi’s request. Buck said the Corps’ decision puts an end to that federal environmental analysis. Developers could appeal the decision by suing in federal court. “Quite possibly there’s a long road ahead of us, but our priority is always to protect Cherry Point,” Ballew added. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
Data-Center Construction...
Building Boom Leads to Worker Housing Shortage PRINEVILLE, Ore. (AP) The construction of two new data centers in Prineville has prompted a temporary housing shortage in the central Oregon town. The Bend Bulletin reports that construction workers are living out of hotels for months at a time because there’s nowhere else to stay. An informal city survey found that about 17 percent of the town’s 230 hotel rooms have been booked for extended stays. The Central Oregon Rental Owners Association’s 2016 survey said the rental vacancy rate for houses and duplexes hit zero percent this year. Prineville’s planning director Phil Stenbeck said that doesn’t leave many options for the 500 construction workers who are building new data centers for Facebook and Apple. He said many workers are finding housing in Madras, Redmond or Bend and commuting about 40 mi. (64.3 km) to work. For more information, visit http://www.bendbulletin.com. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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Designing for Earthquake...
Oregon DOT Honors Bridge Designer, Quake Protection Engineer Conde B. McCullough Eyed for New Eugene City Hall EUGENE, Ore. (AP) A proposed City Hall in Eugene is expected to cost more than previously thought because of a design change intended to help the building withstand a major earthquake. City officials have yet to reveal a new price tag for the four-story building — previously authorized by the City Council to cost no more than $17.85 million. City staff is scheduled to present the council with a revised cost estimate. “City Hall is becoming safer, greener, more welcoming and a better long-term investment for the community as a result of this extra time and work,” city spokeswoman Jan Bohman told The Register-Guard. The Oregon Department of Transportation has unveiled its new bridge interpretive display honoring famous bridge designer/engineer Conde B. McCullough.
“City Hall is becoming safer, greener, more welcoming and a better long-term investment for the community as a result of this extra time and work.”
By Lori Tobias CEG CORRESPONDENT
The Oregon Department of Transportation has unveiled its new bridge interpretive display honoring famous bridge designer/engineer Conde B. McCullough. The display is in Astoria at the west end of the Lewis and Clark River Bridge on U.S. 101 Business — formerly the original Highway 101. The display came about after major repairs were necessary on the Lewis and Clark River and the Old Youngs Bay Bridges, both draw bridges designed by McCullough and built in the 1920s. The rehabilitation work on the Lewis and Clark River Bridge called for the replacement of western approach span, originally constructed of timber. It was replaced with concrete and steel pilings. “Rebuilding the west approach was considered an ‘adverse effect to the historic resource’ under federal regulations so ODOT is required to provide mitigation,” said ODOT spokesman Lou Torres. “As part of the required mitigation, ODOT contracted to design and construct an interpretive display about the bridges.” The work on the Old Youngs Bay Bridge involved replacing the guts of the bridge. The bridge is a mix of orig-
Jan Bohman Eugene Spokesperson
The display is in Astoria at the west end of the Lewis and Clark River Bridge on U.S. 101 Business — formerly the original Highway 101.
inal parts and piecemeal upgrades done over its lifespan, said Melissa Sutkowski, ODOT project leader. “We are replacing the original components with new electrical components to allow bridge to operate safely and efficiently.” The bridge display is about 30 ft. (9 m) by 20 ft. (6 m) in size. The purpose of the display is to give visitors a sense of the history of the bridges and a connection to them, Sutkowski said. “Suenn Ho Design of Portland was hired by ODOT to complete design fabrication and installation of the display,” Torres said. “The display incorporates historic materials salvaged from both bridges, including the old gears from the Old Youngs Bay Bridge, and wood posts from Lewis & Clark River Bridge. Also included in the display is information on the unique history of the bridges and McCullough.
“Suenn Ho also performed school outreach for the project, and partnered with the local school district to involve both high school and elementary school students in the display. “The Astoria High School shop class fabricated a time capsule, which is incorporated into the display. A poetry contest was held at Lewis & Clark Elementary School involving the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade classes. Students submitted poems and drawings about what the bridges mean to them. These submittals are sandblasted into the stone panels and featured on the interpretive display, and the originals will be placed in the time capsule.” The outdoor display cost about $250,000 and is permanent. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
The updated design has also pushed the start of construction to late summer or early fall, about nine months later than previously estimated. Elected officials said they support the seismic upgrade if the cost increase is reasonable. The move makes sense, they said, given the renewed public interest in the area’s vulnerability to a major earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a major fault off the Oregon Coast. Councilor Greg Evans said a major cost increase would give him pause. If “it’s reasonable in terms of how much it’s going to be, and we have an identified source in that budget to pull that money from, then that’s another story,” Evans said. The new building, described by city officials and its architects as Eugene’s “civic heart,” will be built on the southwest portion of a block that held the former City Hall until it was razed a year ago. The former City Hall opened in 1964 before current seismic design standards were adopted in Oregon. An analysis of the building found a significant probability of extensive damage or possible collapse in a major earthquake. For more information, visit http://www.registerguard.com. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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Truck Company’s Goal: To Build a Better ‘Mechanics Truck’
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For more than 40 years, Jack Harriman has had a handle on what field mechanics need in a utility truck. His customers have suggested how to build a better “Mechanics Truck.” “These guys know what they want and need,” said Harriman. After selling these trucks for [more than] 40 years, I think I’ve reached that level. That’s the reason I am now stating that this is ‘The Truck
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Teton Dam Collapse Leaves Major Destruction in Its Wake DAM from page 2
word of something big at Teton Dam trickled in around noon, Robert Bower, a former staff photographer, said in an interview. At first, nobody was sure whether to believe the sketchy phone and radio reports, he said. But if the dam really was collapsing, Bower didn’t want to miss the story. He chartered a private plane from the Idaho Falls airport. As Bower and the two pilots flew over Sugar City, there was no sign of floodwater. But Bower spotted a plume of dust on the horizon. Minutes later, as the plane took a pass over the dam itself, Bower leaned out an open window and started snapping pictures. Over the drone of the engine, he heard a secondary roar from far below — the sound of millions of gallons of water leaving the reservoir. “The canyon was running deep with muddy water,’’ he said. “The scale of it was truly amazing to see.’’ On the way back south, the plane caught up to the leading edge of the flood. Bower watched as the water, now several feet high, slowly engulfed fence posts, then cattle, and then Sugar City. “It was coming fast,’’ he said. “And the supply behind it was everincreasing.’’
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The Water Continues South Rocky Hollow Canyon, temporary dumping ground, southeast of Rexburg. Sugar City was essentially This was one of five dumping areas for the City of Rexburg. annihilated. The Post Register Reclamation to the residents of Sugar “It really united the town,’’ Erickson said. reported that 250 homes were City and Rexburg, it was cold comBut some things couldn’t be saved. The destroyed, and those that fort for many. wall of water ruined the city’s three remained were under 10 to 12 “We wouldn’t trade that town of hydropower plants on the Snake River. The ft. of water. Sugar City, and they wouldn’t trade plants were eventually replaced, funded with Then-mayor Lyle Moon their town of Rexburg, for all the $96 million in bond money that wasn’t paid was near the dam making money they’ve got back in down until last year. petroleum deliveries when disWashington, D.C.,’’ said Lyle Moon, One of the most famous photographs patchers told him of the colthen the mayor of Sugar City. from the disaster was taken just as a wave of lapse. He thought it was a joke. water breached the Broadway Bridge. “Tell me another one,’’ he A Community Effort in Bower said he had been standing next to told his dispatcher. photo Idaho Falls the bridge for a time on June 6, watching as Another 150 homes in the An aerial view of floodwaters moving downwww.waterarchives.org the valley. In Idaho Falls, the water wouldn’t the water steadily rose. He sidled up to a city of Teton were leveled. reach its peak on the Snake River police officer who was preventing anyone Ricks College hill as brown water rolled into Trees were uprooted and carried away. “Total devastation’’ was the way one the city, flooding basements and sending until Sunday, which gave officials and resi- from crossing. dents time to prepare. First, it rose to the “I said, ‘I’ve got to go out on that bridge reporter, Chris Dunagan, described it on the floating houses crashing into trees. Mark G. Ricks, then-president of the point that the city’s signature waterfalls dis- and take a few pictures.’ He said, ‘I’m not first day. “People are just shocked, standing around. They can’t believe what’s going on.’’ Rexburg LDS Stake worked with the LDS appeared. Then the water began to flow over supposed to let you out there, but I’ll look the other way for 30 seconds.’” Farther south, Mark G. Ricks, president of Church to organize relief efforts, bringing the Broadway Bridge. To save the bridge, residents took drastic Bower ran onto the bridge as water the Rexburg Stake, would later tell church food from church storehouses in Ucon and measures. They cut a 40-ft. wide canal poured over the surface. He could feel the historians that word of the coming flood was Salt Lake City. The dormitories at Ricks College became through Broadway to the west of the bridge. structure vibrating beneath his feet. “You spread through the city by police who had temporary shelter for beleaguered residents. Throughout town, residents filled sandbags didn’t want to stay out there,’’ he said. loudspeakers and by neighbors going door to But the risk was worth it. At one point, its cafeteria served 30,000 to save low-lying buildings near the river. door. Everybody pitched in, then-City “That was the picture that summed it up,’’ “The vast majority of people moved out meals in one day. The next day, Main Street was under 5 ft. Councilman Mel Erickson said in an inter- he said. with just the clothes that were on their (This story also can be found on of water. Cleanup and recovery would take view last year. There were sandbag assembly back,’’ Ricks said. Residents made their way to higher months. While hundreds of millions in repa- lines, and residents brought their pickup Construction Equipment Guide’s website at ground. They watched from the top of the rations would be paid by the Bureau of trucks and dump trucks to help in the effort. www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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Body construction features 12 gauge Body construction features 10 gauge main cabinets, 10 gauge reinforced main cabinets, 10 gauge reinforced doors, three point locking stainless steel doors, three point locking stainless steel door handles, eight fully adjustable galva- door handles, eight fully adjustable galvanized shelves with dividers, heavy duty nized shelves with dividers, heavy duty outriggers with power in/out and power outriggers with power in/out and power up/down operation. Body rated for 45 up/down operation. Body rated for 50,000 gallon oil reservoir and filter system, foot pounds. Bodies feature a complete pressurized compartment system and wiring harness, hydraulic system with a body mounting kit. All bodies feature a 45 gallon oil reservoir and filter system, media blasted pre-paint treatment with an pressurized compartment system and epoxy base primer, a poly-urethane interbody mounting kit. All bodies feature a mediate primer, and a match chassis, media blasted pre-paint treatment with an poly-urethane topcoat system. epoxy base primer, a poly-urethane intermediate primer, and a match chassis, poly-urethane topcoat system.
Body construction features 10 gauge main cabinets, 10 gauge reinforced doors, three point locking stainless steel door handles, eight fully adjustable galvanized shelves with dividers, heavy duty outriggers with power in/out and power up/down operation. Body rated for up to 75,000 foot pounds with optional front outriggers. Bodies feature a complete wiring harness, hydraulic system with a 45 gallon oil reservoir and filter system, pressurized compartment system and body mounting kit. All bodies feature a media blasted pre-paint treatment with an epoxy base primer, a poly-urethane intermediate primer, and a match chassis, poly-urethane topcoat system.
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Locally-Sourced Materials Used for Repairs, Upgrades Oregon’s New State Police Memorial Under Way for Three I-15 Bridges
(L-R) Brad Nanke, Salem city councilor; Oregon State Police’s Lt. Cari Boyd; Dan Wellert of White Oak Construction; Gene Bolante, Studio 3 Architecture; Will Horsey, Peter Shanks and Rob Hagerman all of White Oak Construction, break ground for the Fallen Troopers Memorial. OSP from page 1
similar to this,” Wellert said. “Typically with a memorial for this type, you’d get just black granite from China, shaped and polished, and delivered to the U.S. This was mined out of the ground locally. The stone — huge basalt boulders — came from Madras, and were hand-sculpted to what it is today by Portland sculptor Jason Jones of Jones Sculpture Studio.” Crews are preparing to pour the foundation for the memorial, which has a footprint of about 20-by-33 ft. (6 by 10 m). It is comprised of seven pieces, weighing 6,500 to 8,000 lbs. (2,948 to 3,629 kg) each, plus the granite column. The artist will set the actual stone with a heavy-duty telescoping fork-
After five years of planning and fundraising, crews broke ground on June 14 in Salem for the Oregon State Police Fallen Troopers Memorial.
The memorial is unique in part because it is being built out of locally sourced materials, and it may be the only one of its kind.
lift like Sky Trak, Wellert said. “I think the biggest part of this is they got permission to put this on the Capital mall,” he said. “That’s really important that it is going right there outside of the Public Service Building where the officers were sworn in. That’s roughly 50 feet from where this is going. We’re really excited. It just means so much. From the citizens side, the officers don’t get told enough how much we citizens appreciate what they do every day, and those who have paid the ultimate price. It’s great to be part of a way to acknowledge that and thank them for their service.” The memorial is set to be complete in the fall of 2016. “The fallen trooper board has just exhausted efforts in raising the money,” said Wellert. “It’s been really great working side by side with state police and seeing it from infancy. It’s just been great. Everybody has been phenomenal.” (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.) CEG
Three bridges on Interstate 15 in southeast Idaho, between Blackfoot and Idaho Falls in Bingham County, will be repaired or upgraded in a series of projects under way now and concluding in late October. The work, funded by new revenue, includes concrete crack repair, patching or replacing crumbling sections of concrete above and below the structures, and some full concrete deck reconstruction. The primary partners/stakeholders benefiting from the project are road users, commerce, industry and farmers that rely on the canals to transport water to their crops. A crossover is being built at milepost 99.7 in order to separate fast-moving traffic from highway workers for the safety of both workers and vehicles. Once the crossover has been built, crews will replace the decks on the SpringfieldAberdeen and Peoples Canal bridges right next to each other at milepost 98.3, and place a silica-fume overlay to protect the deck surface from weather and water damage. Work also will involve placing a new asphalt deck on the Danskin Canal bridge at milepost 94.6 and upgrading the substructure on the Riverside Canal bridge at milepost 95.8. Guardrail work and repair of substructure will take place on each bridge. The southbound off-ramp at Interchange 98 will be closed for three weeks, from July 18 to Aug. 9. All traffic is restricted to one lane, with a detour in place. Crossovers will be used during this stage of construction. There will be onelane, two-way traffic maintained on I-15. Delays should be expected. The northbound on-ramp will be closed from Aug. 10 to Sept. 1. A detour will be used, with all other traffic restricted to one lane. Crossovers will be used during this stage of construction. There will be one-lane, two-way traffic maintained on I-15. Delays should be expected. Substructure work on the Peoples Canal, the Danskin Canal and the Riverside Canal bridges will take place from Sept. 1 to Oct. 28. This work will be done with a one-lane closure or shoulder closure depending on necessity. Crews will typically work weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aside from the traffic-control methods previously listed, crossovers and shoulder closures will be used, but not over or through any interchanges. DL Beck, of Rexburg, is the contractor on this $1.5 million project. Following the Idaho Legislature’s additional funding approval — the state’s first transportation-revenue increase in nearly two decades — the Idaho Transportation Board advanced a group of maintenance projects in late 2015. This opened the way to move forward dozens of other critically needed road and bridge projects statewide. The bridgepreservation work in Bingham County is one of the projects advanced through the initiative. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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WSDOT Breaks Ground on New Amtrak Station WSDOT from page 1
The station was designed in consultation with an active citizen advisory committee and city officials. It features large glass windows for a bright, welcoming lobby, wooden columns, terrazzo flooring and sliding and vertical lift doors to create an indoor/outdoor public space. When it opens in fall 2017, the station will serve six daily roundtrip Amtrak Cascades trains and Amtrak’s Coast Starlight long-distance service. Businesses within Freighthouse Square will remain open during construction. The new station is part of the $149.9 million Point Defiance Bypass high-speed rail project, which will reroute passenger train traffic through DuPont, Lakewood and Tacoma, creating a faster and more reliable travel route. Point Defiance Bypass is one of 20 projects in the federally funded Cascades High-Speed Rail Program. When complete in 2017, the projects will add two more daily roundtrips between Seattle and Portland, for a total of six; reduce travel time between the two cities and improve on-time reliability. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s website at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
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