DOUBLE HANDLING DIRT DRIES ALLIGATOR ALLEY JOB

Alligator Alley, a 25-year-old, two-lane toll road across Florida's Everglades between Naples and Ft. Lauderdale, is being dualized and upgraded to full freeway standards. R.S. Futch Inc., Ocala, is constructing 11.3 miles of I-75 from S.R. 29 easterly. The two-stage job was started last spring and will be completed in 1991. The job requires 1.4 million cu yd of embankment, but has less than 100,000 cu yd of usable excavation along the right-of-way. The 1.3 million cu yd difference comes from a designated 130-acre borrow pit near S.R. 29, where ground water is usually within a foot of the surface. This article provides details of the borrow pit work and the embankment construction.

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  Cahners Publishing Company

  275 Washington Street
  Newton, MA  United States  02158-1630
• Authors:
  • Munn, W D
• Publication Date: 1990-5

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 26-28
• Serial:
  • Highways and Heavy Construction
  • Volume: 133
  • Issue Number: 7
  • Publisher: Cahners Publishing Company
  • ISSN: 0362-0506

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction management; Embankments; Pits; Road construction
• Uncontrolled Terms: Borrow pits
• Geographic Terms: Everglades
• Old TRIS Terms: Construction operations; Florida everglades
• Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; I52: Construction of Pavements and Surfacings;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00496697
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1990 12:00AM