Courtesy National Park Service Repair crews at work on a section of U.S. 441 washed out by a January slide. Related Links: Contractor Nails Interstate Repair Job After Landslide in East Tennessee Plagued Oregon Job Will Be Redesigned Work crews have begun removing debris, stabilizing the hillside and building an access road to start repairs on U.S. 441 between Gatlinburg, Tenn., and Cherokee, N.C., where a landslide Jan. 15 took out a 200-ft section of road.APAC-Atlantic, Harrison Division, of Knoxville started work Jan. 28 and is expected to complete it “in a few weeks,” according to National Park Service officials.
Related Links: Demo Crew Member Killed at Gatlinburg, Tenn., Plant Where Two Workers Died Last Year New Tank for Tennessee Treatment Plant Where Three Died Failures of a North Carolina company to protect employees from loose soil and rock and inspect for possible hazards on a demolition worksite ended up in a $7,200 fine imposed by the Tennessee Division of Occupational Safety and Health.Roberson Construction & Land Development, Enka, N.C., was cited for three “serious” violations after Michael Eugene Wells was killed on Feb. 23, 2012, when an earthen wall collapsed during demolition of the Gatlinburg Wastewater Treatment Plant’s equalization
Southern Constructors Inc. of Knoxville, Tenn., is building a new equalization tank for the Gatlinburg Wastewater Treatment Plant, replacing the structure where a 40-ft. wall collapsed last year, killing two workers.
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Indiana and Kentucky could award $2.6 billion worth of design-build contracts by December for two cable-stay bridges across the Ohio River in downtown Louisville and in bistate suburbs.
Crews are driving soil nails into an East Tennessee hillside to stabilize land around a section of Interstate 75 after a massive slide took out southbound lanes, which could be closed all summer.Elmo Greer & Sons LLC, East Bernstadt, Ky., already had crews on-site when the slide occurred on May 8. The contractor was repairing damage to the highway after a section of embankment collapsed on March 8.Greer’s $9.3-million contract, awarded
Gaylord Entertainment Inc., whose Nashville hotel and entertainment properties sustained more than $250 million in flood damage two years ago, and others are charging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and National Weather Service with negligence and failure to act during the event.
Jefferson County, Ala., mired in a $4.1- billion bankruptcy, has gotten one of its nine sewer treatment systems removed from federal court supervision and plans to have the remaining four plants out over the next three years.
Repairs to a collapsed span of the Eggners Ferry Bridge over Kentucky Lake should be completed by May 27—four months earlier than originally anticipated. Hall Contracting of Kentucky Inc., Louisville, has won a $7-million emergency contract. It faces a $50,000-per-day penalty if it misses the May 27 deadline.
