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Contracts Awarded to Repair Missouri River Structures

By David Meyer

08/15/2012

(KAIR) -- The Kansas City District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded four contracts worth several million dollars Tuesday to establish a pool of contractors that are available to bid on repairs for the Missouri River Bank Stabilization and Navigation Project.

Damages to the Missouri River BSNP dikes and revetments from the 2011 flood required the award of separate repair contracts funded by Disaster Relief Appropriations Act dollars.

The award of the first three task orders was given to W.A. Ellis Construction Company of Independence, Missouri for a total of $19,557,000.

Besides W.A. Ellis, the contractors available for the pool are Commercial Contractors Equipment from Lincoln, Nebraska, ESI Contracting Corp. from Kansas City, Missouri, and Newt Marine Service from Dubuque, Iowa.

Task Order 001 covers repairs from Atchison to Rulo, Nebraska.

Task Order 002 covers repairs from Waverly, Missouri to Atchison.

Task Order 003 covers repairs from the confluence with the Mississippi River to Waverly, Missouri.

When additional task orders are necessary, the four contractors will be the only contractors allowed to bid on the work.

The total amounts of expenditures on the repairs are not to exceed $45 million over the next five years.

The 2011 flood had a tremendous impact on the BSNP river structures because of the magnitude and duration of the flood waters.

Preliminary assessments of BSNP structures indicate the 2011 flood damage to be two to four times the average annual damage, with heavier damages concentrated in the upstream reaches.

Based on initial assessments, there are approximately 400 damaged structures which will require approximately 680,000 tons of stone.

Assessments are ongoing, and the number of structures and quantity of stone to repair them will likely increase.

More than $31 million of DRAA funds were received for BSNP flood recovery.

The purpose of the funds is for flood recovery efforts to federally declared disaster areas.

The majority of the repairs will be conducted by contact and will likely take three to four years to complete.

The exact time to repair all flood damage will be dependent on several factors including contractor availability to access structures, river stages, and potential drought, flood and winter ice conditions.

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