WYDOT has met with the contractor to discuss the final product and has scheduled another meeting with the contractor to determine the appropriate course of action.
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The Wyoming Department of Transportation has recently been working on a pavement rehabilitation project on Wyoming Highway 233, Hams Fork Road. The contract was awarded to Knife River Corporation Northwest. The work included grading, full depth reclamation, chip seal and miscellaneous work on 17.73 miles beginning at about road marker 2.
The stretch under improvement was seeing issues with pot-holing, significant cracking, and general pavement deterioration that has led to multiple patches. The purpose of the Hams Fork Road project was to provide an improved roadway designed to meet the needs of this type of roadway and accommodate the amount of traffic this road carries. A typical preservation approach would have been to overlay the existing roadway. This would improve the smoothness of the road and initially cover up the cracks, but this would only improve the road for a few years before the existing cracks would eventually work up to the surface.
Although much of the visible work has concluded on the Hams Fork Road, the contract has yet to receive final approval from WYDOT. WYDOT has an established construction process to protect the investment of public funds, ensure quality work, address the safety and interests of the public and help contractors to be successful. If at any time the contract specifications are not being met, or the quality of work is in question, the contractor is required to correct it. This can mean that completed work may be removed and replaced, or other WYDOT-approved corrective measures could take place. In some cases, a project can be accepted as-is with a reduction in pay. This is common state-wide practice that includes an evaluation and acceptance step by WYDOT engineers. The chip seal on the Hams Fork Road is currently in this phase and has not yet been accepted by WYDOT.
WYDOT has met with the contractor to discuss the final product and has scheduled another meeting with the contractor to determine the appropriate course of action.
More information about WYDOT’s contracting process is available at: http://www.dot.state.wy.us/home/construction_projects/video---wydots-contracting-process.html
