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RELEASE AT WILL
ONE-LANE OPERATIONS
IN GLENWOOD CANYON
Beginning Monday, April 22, motorists traveling U.S. 6 in Glenwood Canyon
on weekdays will encounter a four mile segment of one lane highway. Pilot cars
will guide motorists alternately eastbound or westbound, between a point just
west of Grizzly Creek and a point just below the dam at the Shoshone power plant.
The pilot car operation, scheduled to last all summer, should benefit the
traveling public and contractors. Motorists, once delayed, will have con-
tinuous trips through the construction zone rather than trips interrupted by one
or more of three separate construction projects. The Interstate 70 construction
work,meanwhile, should progress faster with only one traffic lane open.
Pilot cars with flashing amber lights will operate between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
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PROTECTING BRIDGE DECKS
WITH ELECTRICAL CURRENT
Engineers and contractors interested in bridge deck protection are invited
to a June 4 "Cathodic Protection Open House" sponsored by the Colorado Department
of Highways and the Federal Highway Administration. A program of information
will offer morning sessions at the Holiday Inn/Holidome, Interstate 70 at Chambers
Road in Aurora, followed by luncheon and afternoon tours of a salt-contaminated
bridge deck on 1-70 a mile east of Watkins.
Corrosion of the steel in bridge decks is a serious, costly problem nation-
wide. Cathodic protection, using a grid of slots cut into a bridge surface to
distribute electrical current, stops corrosion even in a salt-contaminated deck.
Federal and state research engineers want to demonstrate the technology and en-
courage its use.
Registration for the program is $15 prior to May 24 and $20 after that date.
Checks payable to Colorado Department of Highways may be mailed to the Research
Branch, Transportation Planning Division, CDOH, 4201 East Arkansas Ave. , Denver,
CO 80222. The fee includes luncheon and bus transportation to and from the site.
This open house is the first of several to be conducted across the country.
Further information may be obtained from Mr. Rich Griffin, (303) 757-9506.
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Department of Highways
April 18, 1985
RS 0146 (9)
MU 0146 (1) S.H. 146 SOUTH OF CLIFTON
The Department's Division of Highways accepted three bids at the April 18
opening for a combined project to widen a mile of S.H. 146 in Mesa county. Work
begins 3.7 miles north of the U.S. 50 junction and extends north. The project
includes grading, stabilization, structures, hot bituminous and concrete paving,
signing, striping, lighting, signalization, topsoil, seeding and mulching.
Elam Construction, Inc. of Grand Junction turned in an apparently successful
bid of $2,365,459 for the project, which requires completion within 120 working
days after its Notice to Proceed. W. R. Nelson of Grand Junction is resident.
engineer.
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C 07-0072-13 S.H. 72 NORTH OF NEDERLAND
Flatiron Paving Co. of Boulder submitted an apparently successful bid of
$224,912 at the Division of Highways April 18 opening to resurface four miles
(net project length) along fourteen miles of S.H. 72 in Boulder county. The hot
bituminous overlay begins 6.9 miles north of Nederland and extends northerly.
Resident engineer H. L. 'Poland of Boulder will coordinate the project,
which is scheduled for completion within fifteen workable days. Four firms bid
on this work.
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C 37-0059-13 U.S. 6, S.H. 59 NEAR HAXTUN
Resident engineer L. D. Muller of Sterling will coordinate U.S. 6 and S.H. 59
resurfacing near Haxtun, following award of a Division of Highways April 18 bid
opening. A combined project provides hot bituminous overlay for U.S. 6, beginning
1.8 miles east of Haxtun extending 5.3 miles easterly, and for S.H. 59, beginning
6.8 miles north of the town extending two miles northerly.
Four firms turned in offers. An apparently successful bid of $453,567 was
received from AAA Roofing Co. of Pueblo. The project is to be finished within
twenty working days.
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MP 19-0059-18 S.H. 59 AND U.S. 385 IN
MP 39-0385-02 NORTHEASTERN COLORADO
Resurfacing S.H. 59 and U.S. 385 highway segments in northeastern Colorado
drew four bidders at the Division of Highways April 18 opening. A combined project
covers highways in Yuma, Sedgwick and Phillips counties.
Hot bituminous pavement overlay for S.H. 59 will begin fourteen miles south
of Clarkville and extend 17.7 miles northerly. U.S. 385 overlay begins 6.75 miles
north of Holyoke and extends 17.6 miles northerly, with a net project length of
8.6 miles.
The combined project requires completion within forty workable days, coordi-
nated by resident engineer L.D. Muller of Sterling. An apparently successful bid
of $1,036,417 was received from AAA Roofing Co. of Pueblo.
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Department of Highways
April 18, 1985
FR 006-3 (6)
FRU 138 - 1 (1) TRAFFIC SIGNALS IN STERLING
Accurate Electric Construction of Denver submitted an apparently successful
bid of $139,492 at the Division of Highways April 18 opening to provide traffic
signals on U.S. 138 (4th St. ) in Sterling.
Four intersections, U.S. 6 (Chestnut St.) and three others, are provided
for by a combined project. Four firms turned in offers for this project, which
requires completion within 30 workable days. L. U. Muller of Sterling is resident
engineer.
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IXFU 470-1 (7) CENTENNIAL PARKWAY IN DENVER
As announced February 28 at a news conference in Littleton, the Department
hopes to open Phase I of the C-470 Centennial Parkway to motorists next December.
Phase I, offering about nine miles of the 26-mile Denver area southwest circumferential
route, extends from Interstate 25 west to Santa Fe Drive. A total of 11.7 miles of the
corridor will be driveable by the end of this year, if paving work proceeds as antici-
pated this summer.
The Division of Highways accepted six bids April 18 on a combined project which
will pave much of the Phase I segment. Mountain States Paving, Inc. of Broomfield
turned in an apparently successful bid of $8,809,221.
One C-470 project in this endeavor begins half a mile west of Broadway and
extends 6.63 miles east. It calls for grading, stabilization, structures, concrete
and hot bituminous paving, signing, striping, signalization, guardrail, topsoil,
seeding and mulching. A second project begins 0.2 mile east of Yosemite and extends
0.43 mile east to Interstate 25; it includes grading, stabilization, concrete and hot
bituminous paving, guardrail, topsoil, seeding and mulching. A third project provides
grading, stabilization and concrete pavement for the Broadway interchange ramps.
The combined project requires completion within 150 working days after its
Notice to Proceed. John Ward of Denver is resident engineer.
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Department of Highways
April 18, 1985
CONTRACTS AWARDED
Road Bid Contract
Project Street Description Awarded To Opening Awarded
R-AD 0094(1) To build the Con- Domenic LeoneCon- 3/28/85 4/10/85
solidated Space struction Co.
Operations Center $1,071,966
(CSOC) access road
east of Colorado
Springs.
FCU-HES 036-1(28) --- Boulder Turnpike Dumar Contractors, 4/4/85 4/10/85
ramp project Inc. $167,989
at Sheridan Blvd.
in Westminster
FR 024-3 (23) US 24 Project which Koga Engineering & 4/4/85 4/10/85
will resurface Construction, Inc.
US 24 near $1,189,398
Matheson.
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BIDS TO BE OPENED
May 9: 10:00 a.m. , S.H. 12 bridge replacement south of La Veta, consisting of
grading, structures, concrete box culvert, bituminous pavement, seeding, mulching, and
striping, beginning at the south city limit and extending 0.2 mile westerly, in Huerfano
county, BRS 0012(22) . Certified, prequalified minority bidders only.
10:15 a.m. , Widening 63rd St. in Boulder, consisting of grading, struc-
tures, stabilization, hot bituminous and concrete pavement, beginning 0.13 mile south of
the S.H. 119 junction and extending 0.09 mile north in Boulder county, MR 4075(1) .
10:30 a.m. , Signalization at locations in Jefferson and Adams counties,
located on S.H. 95 at 64th Ave. , S.H. 121 at 32nd Ave. and 38th Ave. , S.H. 391 at 32nd
Ave. , 38th Ave. and 44th Ave. , MP 11-0000-00.
10:45 a.m. , Resurfacing Interstate 70 east of Georgetown, consisting of
hot bituminous pavement overlay, guardrail, impact attenuators and striping, beginning
at Georgetown and extending 6.3 miles east, in Clear Creek County, IR 70-3 (151) .
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