If you drive the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway, you have to look at the strange shaped pilings and wonder if they are going to be safe. We have all heard stories or seen pictures of collapsed bridges with cars dangling or going over the edge. Work on the expressway is being done by URS Corp. The pilings sank not a few inches - BUT 11 FEET ! Remember this
If you live in the Apollo Beach area, you have to know that the desalination plant to help provide some relief to our water supply has been a continual nightmare. Covanta built the plant and was to operate it, but it was taken over by the county when it appeared to have serious problems. Pretty uncomfortable when you build a project only to have it taken over at the end due to those problems.
By the way, we failed to tell you about the millions of dollars each of those issues have cost the county - plus the moment of fear that most Expressway drivers have when approaching those pilings/supports.
Our County Commission is thinking of REWARDING the two companies with additional contracts: For Covanta - a possible project to expand a waste to energy plant and for URS Corp. additional work on stormwater projects. The Tampa Tribune has complete details.
Only County Commissioners Blair and Storms vote against these.
At the same meeting , the brainless commission voted against providing healthcare to 3 time felons in order to save $ 4 million annually. THE COVANTA DEAL ALONE COULD INCREASE COUNTY LIABILITY BY AROUND $ 22 MILLION !
TELL THE COUNTY COMMISSION WHAT YOU THINK ! email them here
Your comments to them really does make a difference. By the way, if this gets you worked up, let Commissioners Blair and Storms know you support their votes too.
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"you have to look at the strange shaped pilings"
First, you can't see any pilings while driving this project. What you see are piers and caps, and they are NOT strange shaped as you stated. The design is called a hammer-head, and it is quite common.
Second, you can't assess the safety of the design by driving by and looking at the bridge. What you can look at are the volumes of test data that have been collected since the collapse. If you took the time to do this, you would see that not only is the updated design safe, it's overkill. That's probably a good thing given the unfortunate circumstances.
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