From the Press Democrat last Wednesday August 27: A Mendocino County judge has delivered another blow to the Willits bypass project, one Caltrans said is likely to delay work on the controversial Highway 101 project for another year and cost millions of dollars in construction contract changes and extensions. The project already was in danger of being extended another year when Judge Cindee Mayfield granted environmentalists’ request for a temporary restraining order halting an excavation project that is supplying fill for the bypass. The environmentalists contend the excavation project on Mendocino Forest Products land needs additional environmental review. The restraining order may be lifted in less than two weeks, but by then Caltrans’ window of opportunity to complete its necessary preparatory work for next year’s construction likely will be closed, officials said. Under its permit, Caltrans cannot move soil after Oct. 15 and hundreds of truckloads of soil are needed for the prep work. If the project is delayed, it will add between $8 million and $12 million in additional construction costs to the $210 million, 5.9-mile project. Photo taken August 31, 2014.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 05:47:33 +0000
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