Cleanup of diesel spill taking longer than planned
According to public documents, the cleanup of a diesel plume in the area targeted for Lincoln’s new arena will take longer than originally planned and cost about $400,000 more than projected.
The arena development is largely taking place on the active railyard west of the Haymarket — where there is a diesel plume about the size of a city block northwest of Lincoln Station. General Excavating of Lincoln was hired to remove the diesel.
The three-member Joint Public Agency overseeing construction of the project will be asked Thursday to approve a change order that will — among other things — give the excavating company more time to do the job. The documents indicate originally the contractor was scheduled to begin work Dec. 22 and finish the remediation of the diesel spill in 55 days, by Feb. 15. But due to delay of approval of the contract, the “notice to proceed” wasn’t issued until Jan. 13.
General Excavating argued weather caused delays, too, but the city said weather delays should have been taken into account when the company submitted its bid, since the work was to be done during the winter and the city had “unseasonably favorable” conditions during most of that time frame. The city is proposing that the JPA grant a seven-day extension due to weather to account for blizzard conditions the first week of February.
The JPA will also be asked to grant a 25-day extension due to BNSF’s delay in completing an overhead power line relocation and no temporary power to do the work.
All in all, the change order will change the target date for the work to be substantially completed to May 10.
“While the West Haymarket Redevelopment Project is on a very aggressive timeline, we understand that there may be additional requests for extensions of time due to unforeseen circumstances,” Ernesto Castillo of the Urban Development Department wrote to the contractor.
Great coverage Deena! Cherry pick anything that can be percieved as wrong (and with a $300 million project you can guarantee some aspects may take longer than projected) and flatly ignore things like how we saved millions of dollars issuing arena bonds. We can all be assured that your coverage of the arena construction will be as biased and negative as your coverage was during the campaign.
I guess you were sleeping back in August, when I was the first and only reporter to write about the sale of the bonds — and lower interest rate and resulting savings.
http://journalstar.com/special-section/arena/recent-news/article_22f8b9ee-afd3-11df-aa46-001cc4c002e0.html
But I guess that doesn’t fit your narrative, does it?
What’s wrong with keeping people aware of what’s going on. I thought I saw an article concerning the saving of millions on issuing the bonds when they did. Seems to me you are the bias one. Maybe you and Deena need to kiss and makeup.