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Pipeline Project News for Maple Street in Redwood City


The first step in the open-cut construction on Maple Street for SBSA’s pipeline requires the drilling and installation of vertical steel beams at the end of Maple Street in front of the Sheriff’s Work Furlough and Shelter Network. The parking area for the Redwood City Police Station and SBSA’s pump station are on the other side. For approximately three days – from Tuesday, January 14, through Thursday, January 16, this installation will create more noise than has been experienced in this area so far but not as loud as when piles were driven in the Docktown area last October. Incidentally, all noise levels are monitored and are within allowable levels for daytime construction. A couple of street parking spaces may be affected on the Sheriff’s/Work Furlough side, but the parking in front of the pump station will remain unaffected.

 

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What are we doing?   What we are installing is what the trade calls soldier pile walls, which are non-gravity cantilevered walls that provide support through the stiffness of the vertical wall elements and passive resistance from the ground below the finished grade.  They are effective earth retention systems in both “fill” and “cut” wall situations. In our instance, solider pile systems are being used as temporary shoring. Once they put the vertical soldier piles in we can start the open-cut excavation from the point described above to the easterly end of Maple Street.  This first portion of work will be concentrated near the Pump Station for about three weeks.

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Beginning in about the second week of February and taking us six months, the shoring for the main open cut excavation and pipeline installation work itself will proceed.  There will be three 300-feet segments, and when we are finished with a segment, it will be covered and the roadway access improved. Once the first 300 foot segment is finished, it will also open up parking at the Sheriff’s/Work Furlough location.  Each time we start a segment, it will require several days of drilling vertical steel beams as described above, and be louder than normal construction, as also described above, but within the allowable levels for daytime construction. 

 

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