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It
may not quite match the size of the renown highway project in
Boston, but second phase highway construction at Blue Ball is on
a scale seldom seen in Delaware.
A few yards from still busy Concord
Pike workers are carving two underpasses. One will provide for a
partial interchange where the pike, Foulk and Rockland Roads and
a new major highway connecting with Powder Mill Road will come
together. The other, just south of there, will take a parkway
serving both halves of Alapocas Run State Park and a pedestrian
and bicycle path, which will be part of the Northern Delaware
Greenway
under the pike.
This part of the overall Blue Ball
Project is scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2006.
Winter weather this season and next will tell if that timetable
will be met.
Woodstown, N.J.-based R.F. Pierson
Contracting Co. is the general contractor.
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This is the
beginning of the lower-level connection of Foulk
Road and the yet-to-be-built connector with Powder
Mill Road. |
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This cut will
eventually carry the greenway path and park road. To
appreciate its size, reference the two workers
standing between the power shovels in the center of
the photo. |
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All that
digging piles up to a lot of
dirt -- an estimated 380,000 cubic
yards by the time it's all moved. Most
of it will be 'recycled', some to the
expansion of Rock Manor golf course
and the rest to other highway jobs.
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Also to be recycled is this mound of
asphalt shavings scraped from the
surface of Concord Pike. |
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