Tuesday 3/30/10

Footings are being poured today! Not too much has changed at the bridge visually the last few days, hence no new pictures, but maybe this evening...

3/25/10

New pipes. Craig said they are still having trouble getting bearing.
they've added and added, but still haven't hit bedrock in some areas...

3/23/10 progress

"We didn't get bearing" - Craig, structural foreman. but it wasn't a
total bad day, because they did get a lot in.

3/22/10 5:30 pm

Doug said they are prepping for the new footings on the south side.

first day of spring...

3/18 4:30pm

3/18/10

Early Start 3/17

First truck on the site was 6am today. It was Craig, the structure foreman, who comes in from Dyersville every morning. It was too dark for pictures this morning. Yesterday they got the southbound lane removed from the south side up to the first pier. They're leaving the northbound lane intact for now. But seriously, don't go messing around there - they park big equipment at either end to prevent vehicles from passing through, but people walking around just need to use some common sense.

March 15, 6:30pm

Day 1 of construction.

March 15, 7:45am

Work will begin today, with the road closure scheduled for around 9am.

Watershed Feasibility Study

Well, interesting. 77 square miles of the Indian and Dry Creek watersheds are going to be the subject of an Army Corps of Engineers flood protection feasibility study. Per Rick Smith, in the Gazette. More than $300k. It'll be interesting to see what comes out of all that.

Saturday, march 6

they took down a whole bunch of trees the last couple of days. good to
do it while the ground is frozen. know any tree guys who have an
informed opinion about how projects like this should go? our goal with
this blog is to provide first hand a counts of the project, and as
much background and contextual info as can be found. we're living with
this every day, and it's everyone's tax dollars at work. hope they're
being spent wisely.

Friday, March 5 2010

This is the view of the bridge taken about 7am from the South West corner. On the North East corner, they started clearning trees a week or so ago.