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Howard R. Green Company
CONSULTING ENGINEERS
February 3, 1999
File: 800110J-0060
Mr. Paul Steinman
Director of Economic Development
City of Elk River
13065 Orono Parkway
P.O. Box 490
Elk River, MN 55330
RE: EAST ELK RIVER IMPROVEMENTS
TENATIVE SCHEDULE
Dear Mr. Steinman:
As you requested, I have put together what I believe to be a tentative schedule for the East Elk
• River improvements. We have assumed the City Council will consider the award for the large
project at their February 22, 1999 Council meeting. Based on this, it will take approximately two
weeks for the necessary paperwork before the contractor can be given the Notice to Proceed
and mobilize to the site. This means that construction activities would start in early March.
Initially, the contractor has several weeks of setting up dewatering prior to any underground
construction beginning. I believe it would be safe to assume that no serious underground
construction would start before April 1, 1999. We would look for the contractor to have sanitary
sewer and water serviced through the Trott Brook Farms, Elk River Crossing and Vandenberg
Industrial Development by September 1, 1999.
In our original contract documents we anticipated a February 1, 1999 start date. Assuming the
contractor starts approximately two months late, we believe the project would be half to three
quarters complete by the winter shutdown of 1999. This would mean the sanitary sewer and
water project would not be complete until mid summer of the year 2000.
Plans for the street and storm sewer portion of the project are near completion and would be
ready to submit to Mn/DOT within 30-days. The one concern with this portion of the project is
that all of the rights-of-way necessary for the street construction must be within the City's control
prior to the project being approved by Mn/DOT for letting. If we assume that at least one of the
parcels of property that is necessary for the street construction will go through the eminent
domain process, it is reasonable to believe that we will not have all of the necessary rights-of-
way until August 1999. I believe it would take approximately 60-days from the time that the
right-of-way is all obtained until the project is let. Therefore, the project would not begin
construction until sometime after October 1, 1999. Obviously at that time of year all that we
• could hope for to be accomplished in 1999 would be the storm sewer construction and some of
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the earthwork. The bulk of the street construction would be undertaken in 2000 with completion
of the project in the late summer early fall of 2000.
The one item that may change this tentative schedule fothe street construction would be
acquisition of all of the necessary rights-of-way without sing the eminent domain process. Any
time saved in the right-of-way acquisition would allow for additional construction to be
undertaken in the construction season of 1999. However, under the best scenario, much of the
street construction would carry over until 2000.
If you have any questions regarding this tentative schedule, please call.
Sincerely,
HOWARD R. GREEN COMPANY
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Terry J. aurer, P.E.
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