Construction update 4/22/13(LANE CLOSURE)

Traffic along E156th north of Lakeshore will be reduced to a single lane this week.  This will allow for installation of dewatering wells around what will be the location of Structure 3-4 to be constructed in the future.  One lane of traffic will be maintained to allow for vehicular traffic to pass at all times.  Please observe the any traffic flaggers in the area.

Construction Update 4/15 (LANE CLOSURE)

There will be construction activity later this week or early next week in E 156th St near the entrance to the 3-2 fenced in area. One lane of traffic will be closed to allow for the work activities, flaggers will be present ensuring the smooth flow of traffic in each direction.  This work includes the drilling of the dewatering wells that will be utilized in the future excavation of the Structure 3-4.  Once the drilling is complete all lanes will be reopened until the actual excavation begins (July).  The equipment to be used is currently working inside the fenced in area on the North side.

The spoils are not wasted

The Sewer District’s tunnel boring machine, Mackenzie, is working her way through the tunnel and is currently beneath Lake Erie.

If you were to visualize the Euclid Creek Tunnel as a really long cylinder – which it essentially is – that cylinder’s volume is more than 375,000 cubic yards
(13.5’ radius squared * pi * 17,750’ long / 27).

What happens to all of the bedrock, or “spoils,” that is being excavated from the tunnel?

This rock travels via conveyor belt through the entire distance of the tunnel and is brought up to the surface at our Nine Mile Construction Site (Shaft #1).

Don’t worry… the Sewer District isn’t permanently creating a mountain next to I-90. The spoils are hauled away by one of McNally/Kiewit’s subcontractors to another community in Northeast Ohio that was in need of “fill.”

For years, the City of Garfield Heights has wanted to extend Transportation Boulevard farther south, connecting it to Rockside Road. To turn these plans into reality, Garfield Heights needed rock. And lots of it. The spoils from the Euclid Creek Tunnel comprise part of what will be needed to establish the Transportation Boulevard Extension.

There is another great photo taken by Lynn Ischay, one of The Plain Dealer’s photographers, last September.

A prior blog post incorrectly calculated the cubic yards of spoils as more than one million.

April Community Meeting

Due to scheduling conflicts at the Memorial-Nottingham Library, the date for April's Community Meeting has been changed.

NEW DATE:
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
6:00 p.m.
Cuyahoga County Public Library
Memorial-Nottingham Branch
17109 Lakeshore Boulevard, Cleveland

A copy of last month's presentation is below.

Euclid creek tunnel ppt mar2013 from Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

REMINDER: Community Meeting Scheduled for Tonight (3/19)

The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District will host our Euclid Creek Tunnel Community Meeting tonight, March 19. The meeting, regularly scheduled for the third Tuesday of each month, begins at 6:00 p.m. and is held at the Memorial-Nottingham Branch of the Cleveland Public Library (17109 Lake Shore Blvd.).

For those interested in updates, but unable to attend the meeting, a copy of the PowerPoint presentation will be posted to the blog within the next several days.

PLEASE NOTE: The date, time and/or location for our April meeting may change. Please subscribe to the Euclid Creek Newsletter or return to the Euclid Creek Blog for updates.

Thank you and I hope to see you tonight.

Secant Pile Drilling Coming To An End

The secant pile drilling at site 3-1 will be coming to completion late this week or early next week.  As the contractor completes this phase of the work, he will begin removing his equipment from the site.  Both the blue and yellow crane and drill rig will be disassembled and trucked off site.  We expect this to take the majority of next week.

Once the secant pile contractor is gone, the excavation contractor will begin to mobilize his excavators and cranes to the site.  I will detail this work once we get closer to it.

Beulah Park Schedule

Above is a layout of the proposed work and approximate dates of work activity for the various structures.  Please see the powerpoint presentation for more detail on the work.