Construction projects still on time after wet weather
This article first appeared in Stillwater News Press.
Jessica Jackson
Stillwater NewsPress
May 06, 2009 11:28 am
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Despite persistent rain, Stillwater’s major construction projects
should be completed on time because the Public Works Department builds
weather days into the schedules.
The number of rain and weather days
budgeted into the work schedule is according to what Oklahoma
Department of Transportation estimates is the average number of delays
days that will occur each month, Public Works Director Ralph Kinder
said.
According to the Oklahoma State University Agronomy Research
Station, Stillwater has had 4 inches of rain since April 27. And more
rain is forecast for the rest of the week and into the weekend, City
Emergency Management Technician Rob Hill said.
So far, the
University Avenue reconstruction project has had 23 rain days through
the end of April, with 10 in January and eight in April, Kinder said.
The other five days were in February and March.
He said while extra
days will push back the official completion date — the date when the
project has to be done without penalty — he still expects the project
to finish by mid-September as originally projected. The workers have
done 34 percent of the work in 35 percent of the time, he said.
On
the 12th Avenue reconstruction project, workers had 10 weather days but
have completed 12 percent of the work in 8 percent of the time, Kinder
said. That project is projected to be finished by the end of January
next year.
Posted on Thu, May 7, 2009
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