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The final phase of the Kansas City Dike Project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It is underway in the design and structure stages to begin in the fall with a $453 million investment in canopy levees and flood walls; Replacement and repair of existing pumping stations Improving aging infrastructure and innovations in infiltration and stability.
The initial stages of the project, completed in 2009-2017, saw nearly $30 million in innovations that took a step forward and strengthened existing levees and flood walls along the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kan.
The Corps’ local partners in the final phase are the Kaw Valley Drainage District, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan., and the city of Kansas City, Mo. The Corps, responsible for the design, construction and delivery of the project, is covering nearly 100 percent of the cost, with the local partners responsible for the acquisition of necessary real estate and utility relocations.
“The Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas levee assignment consists of seven sets of levees, adding 60 miles of levees and flood walls along the banks of the Missouri and Kansas rivers in the Kansas City metropolitan domain,” said Scott Mensing, the body of Kansas Citys. Program director. “The complete formula protects 32 square miles of industrial, advertising and residential spaces and includes 100,000 jobs, 7,000 structures and $25 billion in infrastructure. Dominance is important to the national economy as a manufacturing, distribution, transportation and storage center. The protection of citizens who live and paint behind and the walls of flooding are paramount to the Body. The goal of this task is to ensure that these formulas serve completely as the next flood.
“The remaining features come with improvements to 17 miles of existing levees and flood walls along the Kansas River in the Kansas City metro area,” he added. “This collaborative effort will reduce the threat of flooding to levee homes and businesses, improve the reliability and resilience of systems, strengthen old infrastructure, and ensure that levees and walls of flood walls in long-term flooding. Our purpose is to complete the task until 2024. This final phase will cover only about 15 years of structure in the system. The updates are complete for the Fairfax/Jersey Creek, North Kansas City and East Bottoms ensembles along the Missouri River.”
Planning for the entire task began in 1993, without delay after the wonderful flood that year, the time when the largest flood ever recorded for the Kansas River, underscored the need for a response from the Corps.
“The Armourdale and Central Industrial District (CID) ensembles had about six inches of freeboard when the ridge moved in July 1993,” Mensing said. Local partners, in collaboration with the Corps, have put sandbags in the most sensitive to combat flooding. The Procedure for the Corps’ task assignment plan is rigorous and the initial feasibility examination was completed and is legal in 2007 and the phase of the time of the review is legal. 2015. The remaining allocation has been allocated [fully financed] on the 2018 bipartisan budget bill to ensure that the benefits for Kansas City’s dominance can be felt as temporarily as possible.
Flood walls will build four to five feet along the Kansas River, beginning at the confluence of the Missouri River and extending beyond the Turner Memorial Bridge in Kansas City, Kan. The initiative also replaces 18 closing structures; maintain or alter dozens of drainage structures; installs almost 1 or 5 relief wells; and settings or replaces 19 pumping stations.
The first contract for long-term work, a $33.3 million design and construction contract, awarded to Michels Corporation for the design and structure to upgrade and modify 3 pumping stations within the Argentine lifting unit. This contract, still in the design phase, will end in 2022. Improvements will be made to the Turner pumping station; Argentina’s main pumping station; and the Strong Avenue pumping station.
“These pumping stations were built 70 to a hundred years ago and have withstood a series of floods,” Mensing said. Pumping stations pose a significant threat to units. When you look at them opposite the existing criteria and the location of the new summit, we want to make innovations to make sure they paint completely in the next flood.
The stations have undergone innovations since 1993, however, many of the original structures and equipment, some of the pumps, are original. The new innovations are designed to cover a period of 50 years.
Local partners and governments are doing a job of maintaining pumping stations and systems, Mensing said. “We inspect them every year and more rigorous inspections are carried out every five years to make sure they are fully functional. Pumping stations were not originally designed to handle long-term flooding at the new summit.
Bob Martin, assignment manager and regional director of Michels Corporation, is entirely the complexity of the assignment, especially for the land movement.
“The immediate challenge will be to fill the flood in the spring while the work is done,” he said. “We are replacing two of the pumping stations and we want to keep the other two in service. But the biggest challenge will be the general excavation: digging the wells for the two stations that will have an intensity of 39 feet on the floor. drying and pumping and we will use boards to back up the excavation within the 39 most sensitive feet of the excavation. At 39 feet, you can’t do an outdoor dig. Tables, backrests and drying will create a gap. that we can build below ground level.
“Every time you paint so deep below the surface to introduce concrete and other fabrics into the hole, given the limited length of the site, you want to capitalize on the ‘pointed’ delivery of fabrics as we don’t have garage spaces available. “pumping stations, ” he said.
The crews also have to build 600 ft. of levees and floodwalls on either side of the Argentine Main pump station.
This is about moving the most sensible of everything, moving it to the edge of the river so that we can paint on the appearance of the city and the existing point of flood protection, Martin said. “We will use boards as a transient flood wall that will connect to our excavations to also control flooding at existing points.”
On peak days you will see 42 other people, about 35 employees and seven managers. Kansas City DXP, Kan., Provides new Cascade pumps; Cole – Associates Inc. of St. Louis, Missouri, provides design engineering services; Randy Kinder of Dexter, Missouri, supplies excavation, leveling and concrete work; and Empire Electric of Grain Valley, Missouri, is the electric subcontractor.
Michels uses Caterpillar and John Deere equipment. The work will require a long stick excavator (a John Deere 450) with machine pilings to dig the holes and a Cat 349 excavator at a borrow pit, which is being supplied by the government; dozers — a Cat D8T and a John Deere 750 and a 450; and a fleet of dump trucks provided by local trucking companies. All equipment will be equipped with the Trimble Grade Control Systems.
“We’ll have a full repair staff on-site,” said Martin. “All of our repair people are either Cat or John Deere certified and the main wear and tear will be depth of excavating, and encountering water. We do have some abrasives there — high content sand and silt, so a lot of wear and tear will be on the tracks, cans and sprockets.”
Michels has a fleet of more than 11,000 units and they are rotated every three years. The corporation purchases equipment from dealerships such as Fabick CAT.
Two small business contracts, totaling approximately $15 million, to repair and modify pump stations along the Armourdale and CID levees were advertised in July and are scheduled to be awarded in September. The final contract, to include the levee and floodwall raises and seepage and stabilization upgrades will be advertised in the Fall and awarded in April 2021.
General contractors interested in bidding on these projects must be registered on SAM (System for Award Management, sam.gov/SAM/). Interested contractors are encouraged to review the contracting instructions posted on the Kansas City District website — www.usace.army.mil/Business-With-Us/Contracting/. Corps project advertisements and solicitations are placed on SAM.gov.
We’ve released the 65% contract design to build giants and flood walls in SAM.gov, Mensing said. “We seek to interact with contractors and industry before the design procedure to better understand and integrate their structure considerations and hazards into final plans and quotes. We are excited to expand relationships with interested sellers and accompany them in the procedural design If a contractor is interested in elevator assignment or has any questions, we inspire them to touch the user who appears on the screen.
ESI Contracting Corporation, between November 2014 and December 2016, completed a $3,985,000 allocation that advanced a segment of the coast along the Missouri River portion of the Kansas City levee allocation, reducing the threat of flooding in the area.
The paintings required the demolition of 70 feet. Old grain loading tower and 450 feet. long plank pier. Also, install a foot of rock in the water and 1,500 feet along the coast, on a slope of 3 to one.
“In terms of defense for our crew, we had to deal with water/fall coverage and volatile banks,” said Alan Wolfe, general manager of ESI, who oversaw the project. Free and open coordination with local sponsors and USACE has been our success, and we look forward to participating in long-term projects for the system.
ESI began its operations with the demolition of the tower, completed in six weeks.
“We coordinated this work with the local sponsors,” said Wolfe. “We had a secure site and removed debris daily. The wharf demolition was carefully planned and executed in 60 days. The debris was immediately placed in containers for removal.”
To place the rip-rap for the underwater section, crews performed excavation and placement of stones for stabilization. ESI partnered with W.A. Ellis Construction as the marine subcontractor for this portion of work.
To create the slope and install the above-water section, a considerable amount of earth work was required.
“We commenced excavation from top of slope down to the waterline and then we placed rip-rap and bedding immediately after excavation,” said Wolfe. “We completed this portion in approximately two months.”
Wolfe helped through Bill Spears, Quality Control, and Ace Ellis, assignment manager for W.A. Ellis.
All ferrous and non-ferrous metals from demolition have been recycled.
On peak days, there were 12 to 15 structure employees on the site, adding staff from W.A. Ellis and Belger Crane, who provided the uprising for the demolition of the grain tower.
The device used included: a 70-ton Link-Belt cell crane; a Genie elevator; Volvo and Cat shovels.
“We had few device disruptions besides general wear and tear and this was facilitated through a daily inspection through the operators,” Wolfe said.
ESI purchases equipment from dealerships such as Van Keppel and Foley Equipment in Kansas City, Mo. CEG