WHEATLAND — Platte County has paused in making improvements to the Palmer Canyon Road bridge at the Laramie River to examine an engineer’s proposal.
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WHEATLAND — Platte County has paused in making improvements to the Palmer Canyon Road bridge at the Laramie River to examine an engineer’s proposal.
“We’ve been working on this for a couple years now,” Platte County Commission Chairman Steve Shockley said Thursday. “Originally the tubes washed out when we had high water a couple summers ago.”
Shockley said the county replaced the tubes with a prefabricated bridge, which has temporary abutments. He said this phase of the project was to make the abutments permanent, so the county issued a request for proposals for engineer services to design the abutment.
Meeting minutes report the commission reviewed the proposal from AVI Engineering during the April 3 regular meeting, then decided to re-evaluate the plan due to the total cost of the project.
“We had some questions on some of the line items on the engineer’s proposal,” Shockley explained. “We had done some of the stuff before when we put temporary footers in, so we wanted to double check and make sure we’re not paying for something we’ve already done.”
Shockley added that some other items in the engineer’s proposal might be things the county can do in house.