The new contracts bring to $50.4 million the amount of stimulus-funded work WYDOT contracted for in April. The department expects to receive $157.6 million in stimulus money for highway construction, and have about $156 million of it obligated for projects by the end of May.
Based on a Federal Highway Administration analysis, that amount of spending on highway construction can be expected to provide work for about 4,300 people. In addition to the equipment operators, laborers, supervisors and engineers in the work zone itself, those jobs would include mechanics, materials suppliers and other support personnel. The commission awarded the newest contracts during a special teleconference last week. Additional stimulus contracts will be awarded at the commission’s regular monthly meeting May 14 in Cheyenne and another special teleconference on May 28.
The largest contract awarded Thursday was for $8 million to Simon Contractors of Cheyenne for 14.5 miles of milling and pavement overlay to address pavement deterioration on Interstate 90 between the Dry Creek and Powder River interchanges west of Buffalo.
Projects awarded to out-of-state companies include seal coating sections of I-80: chip sealing highways in Albany, Carbon and Laramie counties; pavement overlay and bridge repairs to Wyo 89 north of Evanston; chip sealing of sections of US 85, US 20, Wyo 220 and Wyo 270.
Cheyenne’s Reiman Corp. won a $2.4 million contract to replace cracked concrete slabs and install new sidewalk, curb and gutter on sections of two miles of Casper’s First Street between Yellowstone Highway and the North Platte River by Oct. 31.
Western Wyoming Construction of Lander submitted the low bid of $1.5 million for a pavement overlay on a deteriorating four-mile section of US 26 between Riverton and Shoshoni by Sept. 30, 2010.
Worland’s Hout Fencing of Wyoming won a $548,000 contract for building retaining walls along US 189 in Diamondville by July 31, 2010
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