The majority of the General McIntosh and President Street
Improvement project remains in the surcharge consolidation settlement
monitoring period. At the end of last week, one section of the project
surcharge area was released for construction based on consolidation monitoring
results. This area released is located along the south side of President
Street, from Randolph Street east to the far side of the Madison Retail
Warehouse entrance. The contractor is now coordinating crews for the
removal of surcharge, installation of utility lines within this portion of the
project, and grading for temporary and final roadway profiles. This work
is scheduled to begin starting next week.
Underground
utility crews continue to install 24” water main, 24” sewer force main, and 12”
natural gas pipelines on the east end of the project near the railroad crossing
and Truman Parkway. These new lines, valves, and manholes will connect with
other existing and newly installed utilities on this end of the project.
Another
crew working on the future Bilbo bridge and canal have successfully completed
the eastern canal wall on the north side of President Street. This crew
is now working on the western canal wall on the north side of President
Street. A section of this canal wall was formed and poured last
week. This crew will again have to coordinate with Georgia Power later
this week to de-energize overhead power lines to safety work in this
area. This work involves sheet pile installation for trench shoring, as
well as H-pile driving for the reinforced concrete canal wall foundation
adjacent to these overhead power lines.
Pile driven for concrete canal wall support
Excavating to build concrete canal wall footing
Sanitary sewer forcemain manholes to be placed in bore pit