The lines were installed today. The project is now Complete

Because the bridge will expand and contract
due to temperature changes, a joint must be installed
so that there will not be a large crack in the pavement
on each end of the bridge. The type of joint for this
bridge is called a Asphaltic Plug Joint.
First 18" of pavement is removed over the end of the
bridge at each abutment. A steel plate is placed over
joint, and then a rubber type material is hot poured
in the joint and ¾" aggregate is mixed in the hot
rubber. This allows a very smooth riding joint that is
also very durable.

Paving to top lift of Bituminous concrete Pavement.
The lift thickness is 1 ½" thick.

Paving New England Land Company's Parking lot.

Pike brought in a grinding machine (cold planer)

to grind the begin edge for paving.

We will be paving Monday and Tuesday July 28 & 29

Working on grading and added concrete curbing

for the New England Land Company parking lot.

Staging area cleaned up and a stone ditch added

to the edge of prince street.

The last of the concrete sidewalk being placed

on the north end of the bridge.

Installing granite curbing and sign bases for
the Vt 12A Island.

Pouring concrete for sidewalk and adding final
touches to the Vt12A Island.

Paving the first of two layers of Pavement
on Prince Street.

Stone retaining wall re-stacked. Hand rail added.

Photo of retaining wall in late 2006.

Dismantled the stone retaining wall that was in
front of the house just west of the Fire Station.
The two 24" maple trees that had to be
removed when the power lines were re-routed.
Winterset removed the stumps, and in this photo
you can see the sleeves for the concrete which
will hold a new hand rail. The steps will not be redone.

Plans called for raising the Sewer Manhole cover

on Prince Street that was supposed to be in the new

roadway just west of the bridge (almost under the bridge).

It wasn't there. We spent two days with the town running

camera's up from the next manhole. It was very hard to

locate. We finally found it.

It had been buried years ago in about 10' of embankment.

And because it was further north than it was supposed to be,

we had broken part of the pipe right next to the manhole.

We were very lucky last summer when driving the steel

sheets to the temporary detour abutment. We came close

enough to break the pipe, but not plug it.

In the end, it cost us three days of work and instead of just

raising the lid, we had to build a new manhole from the

base up.

Finished the side slopes on the Northwest corner
of the bridge. Brought the driveway that goes down
behind New England Land Company Driveway up
to it's final grade.

Working on the side slope of Price Street.

Adding Stone Fill over Geotextile fabric.

The Winterset work crew working on the Solid waste bridge over I-91 in Hartford could not work on that project during the last week in April. They returned to Randolph and spent this week working on the stone fill slope on the upstream - north side of the bridge.

Winterset worked the winter on projects in Bristol New Hampshire and the bridge across the Connecticut River in Haverhill NH. They resumed construction of the bridge over the I-91 in Hartford this spring also.
There has not been any activity on this project since December. The project wintered well with no apparent problems. The concrete rail has many small cracks that are typical with this type of rail. In fact, even though there are many cracks, there are less cracks than other projects have had using this same design. Maybe the use of AA concrete aggregate with HP-B concrete has helped to reduce the cracking??

Winter

Snow is clogging the temporary intersection at

the junction of 12 and 12A. We will have to

work on snow removal.

Winterset has not been on site since mid December.

They have active projects in Bristol NH and Haverhill NH.

Winterset has shut down operations for the winter.

On a side note: The Ice Skating rink has opened.

Winterset has spent this week loading out materials

and equipment to shut down the operations

until next April. The crane in the photo has

had it's weights removed, and the tracks moved in

in prepartion of being hauled out soon.

Guardrail on Prince Street.

Installing guardrail on Prince Street.

Removing the temporary detour abutment

10" to 12" Snow on Monday. No work.

Finishing up removing the temporary abutment.

Finishing the Prince Street slopes and resetting
the street light.

Removing the steel sheeting that made up the

temporary abutment for the detour.