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Thu March 11, 2021 - Northeast Edition #6
Irwin Rapoport â CEG Correspondent
Cranes are playing an essential role in the bridge reconstruction project. Here one lifts a prefabricated deck.
The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) is replacing the
Route 7/Wittpenn Bridge over the Hackensack River at a cost of $495 million, with the goal of having the new bridge completed in early 2023. The bridge links Jersey City on the east side to the town of Kearny on the west side (Hudson County).
The construction began in November 2011, and in late September 2020 CCA Civil Inc. installed a unique bridge deck an orthotropic deck for the vertical lift span that is 324 ft. long. The project is being financed by federal funds and the Lincoln Tunnel Access Program.
The bridges date to 1966 and 1968, respectively, and both are 62 feet in length. A Federal Highway Administration database listed them as late as 2018 as “scour critical.” Other listed problems included “slumping” embankments, channel obstruction due to debris and vegetation, and some movement in the stream bed.
“Scour” is an engineering term for the phenomenon of water digging holes in stream beds, thus undermining foundations, abutments, and piers. “Scour critical” means erosion countermeasures are needed as soon as possible.
DOT spokesman Brian Ahrens said riprap was installed in 2016 and inspections that year and in September 2020 found the fix was working.
The additional countermeasures are not determined. They could include more riprap, installing articulated concrete blocks, and even monitoring the depth of the creek, Ahrens said.
Thu December 31, 2020 - Northeast Edition #1
Irwin Rapoport â CEG Correspondent
Stage 5 will complete the reconstruction of the proposed Route 46 median barrier from east of Lower Notch Road to Route 3, construct the proposed Valley Road southbound widening between Route 46 and Robin Hood Road, demolish the existing Route 46 eastbound bridge over Ramp K and complete the Route 46 median barrier to St. Philip Drive.
Union Paving & Construction Co. Inc. (UPC) started work on Contract B ($155.4 million) of the
New Jersey Department of Transportation s (NJDOT) $218.5 million project to reconstruct the Route 3, Route 46, Valley Road and Notch/Rifle Camp Road interchanges last February.
Contract A (approximately $62.6 million), financed by federal and state funds, and Contract B, federally funded, were initiated to correct existing operational and safety problems.