ST1501A-CS180719 (5)
Freeport Parkway Reconstruction
Weekly Construction Meeting
7-19-18
Attendees: Eric Giebelhaus – TSC, Jimmy Reed - TSC, Joe Soto - TSC, Marcus Marion, Darryl Zbranek,
Claudio Segovia - J Volk Consulting
1. Construction Activities This Period:
a. Water line installation Southwestern.
b. RPM continue to grade and remove excess material South of the bridge.
c. Met on site at bridge area with Zayo Rocky Crockett. Zayo will have lines located within
a few days.
d. Met on site at the bridge area with Frontier – Barry. He will check on when Frontier will
swap over to new lines and let us know.
2. Construction Activities Planned next period:
a. Continue potholing for franchise utilities in bridge area.
b. Continue water line installation in Southwestern and begin water line connections.
c. RPM to continue grading and removing excess material.
3. Construction Issues:
a. Condition of Southwestern Blvd – Street and inlets are in bad shape, there are a lot of
patches, potholes, and cracks in Southwestern where water line pavement repair will tie
in to existing street. TSC will provide pricing for extra paving work in Southwestern.
b. 8” water line T, drawing sheet C-30. Drawings do not show permanent paving repair in
the cross cut for the water line. RFI Submitted. This will be added pavement repair.
c. There appears to be existing fiber line in the way of the drill shafts on the Northbound
side of the Bridge. TSC began drilling the shafts on 6-21-2018. They completed drill
shafts 1-6 and 1-7. TSC had to cut a section of water line out of the way for drill shaft
1-8. While they were doing this the locate company was out marking utilities and their
marks were in conflict with some of the drill shafts, including drill shaft 1-8. 6-22-18 TSC
had Wylie Drilling move to the North abutment. Wylie drilled drill shafts 4-9 and 4-8.
While starting drill shaft 4-7 they hit a Frontier fiber line that was not marked and
drilling stopped. TSC has requested the locating company to meet on site which is
scheduled for Friday 6-29-19. TSC claims that locates were never marked in the creek
area and thought they were ok to drill. We have received photos from the locating
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company showing marks in the creek area on May 15. TSC to continue potholing to
find the exact location of fiber line. 7-17-18 met on site with Zayo – Rocky Crockett.
Zayo will have lines located.
d. While RPM was removing pavement in the Northbound lanes of Freeport on 6-29-18
they uncovered a Spectrum line running across Freeport just below the pavement just
South of the Hard 8 driveway. Spectrum to lower line. Spectrum was on site 7-19-18
lowering the line.
4. As-built items:
a. 16” WL A Sta. 37+35.93 shifted fire hydrant to miss existing valves.
b. 16” WL A Sta. 37+67.93 shifted fire hydrant to miss existing FH.
c. 16” water line “A” Sta. 27+80 – water line alignment adjustment to miss existing fire
hydrant.
d. 16” water line ”A” Sta. 36+00 – water line vertical adjustment to go under a
communication duct bank.
e. Water line “A” Sta. 22+80 to Sta. 19+00. TSC will move water line alignment into the
street due to existing utilities in the ROW interfering with the planned alignment.
5. Areas of Concern:
a. Saturated sub-grade. We have a response back from J Volk stating that Alpha Testing
recommends the exposed soil subgrade be observed during proof-rolling. Any
soft, wet, loose material exposed during the proof-roll should be removed and
recompacted. TSC gave us a proposal for installing an edge drain on the edges of
the road.
b. Street light removal – Oncor was scheduled to remove street lights during the week of
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July 9, that did not happen. We have a new contact with Oncor who is checking on the
light removal and will let us know when it will happen.
c. Pond at Kroger. TSC has concerns with the pond at Kroger. Plans call for a rock gabion
basket at the road side of the pond. TSC is concerned with the possibility of the pond
water migrating through the gabion basket to the road sub-grade. J Volk to review.