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Show ; Engineering progressing on . Verncal-doncinzca liigfowcay A direct-route road from Vernal to Bonanza is nearing the first segment engineering design completion phase, according to Uintah Engineering. The new road will shorten the distance by 12 miles compared to the old route over Highway U.S. 40. Uintah Engineering is also doing the R20E R2IE y R22E R23E 1 PRO)SED ' ' j rJ ( BRIDGE T7S GREEN RIVER bridge location northeast of Horseshoe Bend. The bridge is necessary for the new 30 mile direct route road from Vernal to Bonanza. ! design work for a 700-foot boxed girder weathering steel bridge across the Green River at Horseshoe Bend. Engineering consultant on the bridge is E.W. Allen and Associates, Salt Lake City. Edmund Allen, owner of the steel design firm is formerly from Vernal. According to Allen, the three-pier 36-foot 36-foot w ide bridge is being designed one-and-a-half times stronger than the normal freeway bridges because of the heavy industrial traffic that is expected to use the new bridge leading to the rich energy area of southeastern Uintah County. The preliminary engineer's estimate of the cost of the bridge is $2,409,088. The bridge will stand about 32 feet above the river bed and will take about one year to build. The bridge will soon be advertised and the bid date will follow. The bridge site is approximately 12 miles south of Vernal near the end of the county road pavement at the Horseshoe Bend area of the Green River. The new road from south of Davis to about three miles north of Bonanza is about 30 miles. The first 12-mile segment is on the east end and will serve as the access road for the new Deseret Generation and Transmission Cooperative Moon Lake Power Plant site. An application has been made with the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers for a permit to discharge fill material below ordinary high water in the Green River to provide a temporary road for getting equipment out to sites where the bridge piers will be constructed. con-structed. April 17 has been set as the deadline for written comments concerning con-cerning construction of the Horseshoe Rend bridge. In other road activities leading to oil shale area the Uintah County Commission Com-mission awarded a preliminary design miormation project to Horrocks Engineering March 25, who were the low bidders. The project includes design work for five miles of road from Bonanza south along the existing road to and across the White River into White River Shale Project U-b. The project also includes photo control system and roadway alignment for 35 miles of new road beginning at the Green River near Ouray and then south along the existing PR Springs and road toward the Geokinetics oil shale project site. The White River road from Bonanza includes two alternate crossings of the White River. One at the present grade 'Continued on Page 16) Vernal-Bonanza highway - - - (Continued from Page 1) and another elevated above the back water from the proposed White River Reservoir. Horrocks' bid the preliminary design work at $68,800 allowing 45 days for the Bonanza to White River road and 60 days for the Geokinetics road. Other bidders included Uintah Engineering and Valley Engineering. A third energy road project is planned by Uintah County to connect Ouray to Bonanza in an east-west direction. The direct-route road from Vernal to Bonanza is being funded mainly by Deseret Generation and Transmission Cooperative with what is to be worked out as pre-paid property taxes to the county. |