Anchorage Road Projects Move Ahead

April 9, 2019 at 1:04 a.m.


Two projects on Anchorage Road in Warsaw will take place over the next several years.

During the Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety meeting Monday, City Planner Jeremy Skinner presented a “notice to proceed” for the preliminary engineering work for the city’s Anchorage Road project. The project is part of an Indiana Department of Transportation 80/20 grant program, in which the city was awarded just under $2.7 million in early 2018.

The preliminary engineering design is the next step in the process and will be followed by additional contracts leading to the construction of the project sometime in 2022.

Skinner said the city has received the contract for the project from the state as well as the purchase order for $307,200 of the $384,000 contract with Structurepoint. INDOT’s 80% share is the purchase order amount.

Mayor Joe Thallemer asked Skinner to differentiate between this project and the project on Anchorage Road that INDOT is going to do this summer.

Skinner said the project that INDOT is doing is specific to the intersection of Anchorage Road and U.S. 30, which they control and own.

“Those improvements that they are doing are more or less in preparation for some of the things that we will be doing on Anchorage Road. So they will be adding some additional road-widening and some turn lanes that are not currently in place,” Skinner said.

Thallemer said that was happening this summer, and Skinner confirmed that.

The city’s project is a “2022 fiscal year project,” Skinner said. “We’re trying to have this project bid out sometime between July 2021 and June 2022.”

Thallemer said INDOT’s project at the intersection will not include any city funds or participation other than lane restrictions and closures at the time.

The Board of Works unanimously approved the $64,000, paid out of Eastern/Northern TIF funds, for the city’s 20 percent of the preliminary engineering for its Anchorage Road project.

The board also approved $657,155 for the wastewater expansion project to contractor Kokosing Industrial Inc.

Utility Manager Brian Davison said, “This is the first pay application for the plant expansion. Much of it is mobilization for them to get all the equipment there and to buy supplies and so forth. Some of you have been out there and there are some big holes out there right now.”

He said they were moving quickly on the project.

Davison said Weissler Engineering has 1½ employees there, including an on-site representative. He also said his department was checking the work as well. He expected city engineer James Emans to be involved once he returns from vacation.

Thallemer asked if the work was going well or if there were any surprises.

“Things are going pretty good,” Davison replied. “We’ve had a couple of change orders ... but nothing major at this point.”

Two projects on Anchorage Road in Warsaw will take place over the next several years.

During the Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety meeting Monday, City Planner Jeremy Skinner presented a “notice to proceed” for the preliminary engineering work for the city’s Anchorage Road project. The project is part of an Indiana Department of Transportation 80/20 grant program, in which the city was awarded just under $2.7 million in early 2018.

The preliminary engineering design is the next step in the process and will be followed by additional contracts leading to the construction of the project sometime in 2022.

Skinner said the city has received the contract for the project from the state as well as the purchase order for $307,200 of the $384,000 contract with Structurepoint. INDOT’s 80% share is the purchase order amount.

Mayor Joe Thallemer asked Skinner to differentiate between this project and the project on Anchorage Road that INDOT is going to do this summer.

Skinner said the project that INDOT is doing is specific to the intersection of Anchorage Road and U.S. 30, which they control and own.

“Those improvements that they are doing are more or less in preparation for some of the things that we will be doing on Anchorage Road. So they will be adding some additional road-widening and some turn lanes that are not currently in place,” Skinner said.

Thallemer said that was happening this summer, and Skinner confirmed that.

The city’s project is a “2022 fiscal year project,” Skinner said. “We’re trying to have this project bid out sometime between July 2021 and June 2022.”

Thallemer said INDOT’s project at the intersection will not include any city funds or participation other than lane restrictions and closures at the time.

The Board of Works unanimously approved the $64,000, paid out of Eastern/Northern TIF funds, for the city’s 20 percent of the preliminary engineering for its Anchorage Road project.

The board also approved $657,155 for the wastewater expansion project to contractor Kokosing Industrial Inc.

Utility Manager Brian Davison said, “This is the first pay application for the plant expansion. Much of it is mobilization for them to get all the equipment there and to buy supplies and so forth. Some of you have been out there and there are some big holes out there right now.”

He said they were moving quickly on the project.

Davison said Weissler Engineering has 1½ employees there, including an on-site representative. He also said his department was checking the work as well. He expected city engineer James Emans to be involved once he returns from vacation.

Thallemer asked if the work was going well or if there were any surprises.

“Things are going pretty good,” Davison replied. “We’ve had a couple of change orders ... but nothing major at this point.”
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