Replacement Of Bridge No. 1400-073 On Landing Road Over NJ Transit And The Canal In Roxbury Townshiop, Morris County, NJ

THE FOLLOWING IS ADDED: The work to be performed under this Contract includes the staged construction of the proposed bridge, the complete removal and disposal of the existing filled concrete arch bridge including the asphalt overlay reinforced concrete deck, guide rails, bridge railing and pilasters, skewbacks, wingwalls, and all attenuate features, as well as removing any other existing features that interfere with the construction of the proposed structure and approach roadways. The work includes the construction of a new two span prestressed concrete bridge supported on reinforced concrete abutments and a reinforced concrete wall pier, cast-in-place reinforced concrete deck, curbs, parapet with railing, pilasters, sidewalk and drilled micropiles. Also included are additional retaining walls work and miscellaneous reconstruction as indicates on the plans. The construction includes approach roadway work, intersection realignment and reconstruction of two intersections, traffic signal construction, and relocation of utilities, drainage work, pavement removal at adjacent acquired properties, revegetation of pavement removal areas, seeding, fertilizing and straw mulching, and maintenance and protection of traffic. Specifically: Signing and traffic control devices will be established and maintained as necessary for to maintain two-way traffic in accordance with the traffic control plans. The Contractor shall coordinate his traffic control operations with local police. Approach roadway work will include milling and resurfacing to the limits shown on the construction plans, sawcutting and removing existing pavement, removing guide rails, and constructing new HMA roadway pavement, sidewalks and guide rails. New traffic stripes will be applied to new pavements. The existing bridge will be removed in its entirety. The new bridge to be constructed shall be a prestressed concrete adjacent box beam bridge supported on reinforced concrete abutments and wingwalls and pier founded on drilled micropile supported footings. Proposed abutments, wingwalls, pier, parapets, and precast concrete arch faade panels, shall be concrete stained. A sample panel shall be created and submitted to the County. Approval of the stain on a sample panel by the County must be attained prior to any concrete staining. Existing utilities within and adjacent to the existing structure shall be relocated prior to demolition of the existing structure. Temporary support of excavation installed to support foundation excavations and will be cutoff and remain in place when no longer necessary. All dimensions, elevations, features, materials, members and components of members shown in the Contract Plans are in accordance with available information taken from existing plans, field investigations, field measurements, reports and other sources. However, it may not be possible to obtain, verify and/or publish all information of the site and existing structures in the Contract Documents. Some details in the Contract Documents are not intended to convey dimensions or sizes of features but are described in order to convey conceptual representations of necessary elements. Variations, deviations and possibly omissions are to be anticipated with all that is above described. The Contractor is responsible for verifying dimensions, elevations, features, and sizes of members, prior to submitting shop drawings, as necessary to construct the proposed project and avoid conflict between existing and proposed elements. Adjustments can be expected in order to maintain the intent of the Contract Documents. Whether or not specifically called for in the Contract Documents, all costs associated with verifying existing and proposed dimensions, elevations, features, materials, and sizes of members shall be included in the prices bid for the various Pay Items scheduled in the Proposal that are associated with that need for verification. The work required by the Contract Documents also includes performance of the following: Maintenance of the construction site, including snow removal, tree trimming, mowing, weed removal, clearing, grading and restoring construction impacts to private property and driveways under the performance of the construction contract. Repair or replacement of any property damaged as a result of the Contractor's construction operations at the Contractor's own expense. Furnishing and maintaining a field office for use by the Resident Engineer.