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<br /> <br /> <br />Event: Severe Storms, FEMA-4416-DR <br /> <br /> <br />Texas DOT <br /> <br />Lori Wagner <br />Contract Manager <br />7901 North IH35 <br />Building 2 <br />Austin, TX 78753 <br />(512) 832-7057 <br /> <br />Performance Dates: <br />10/2018 to 08/2019 <br /> <br /> <br />DEBRIS VOLUME: 13,838 OPERATOR & EQUIPMENT HOURS CONTRACT VALUE: <br />$7,532,510.00 <br /> <br />September 2018 was the wettest in Texas history. Across Central Texas and the Hill Country, heavy rains <br />led to catastrophic flooding. The floods caused a bridge on FM 2900 in Kingsland Texas to collapse and fall <br />into the surrounding water, Lake LBJ. This surrounding water is used for recreational boating which is <br />essential to the local economy. This bridge is about a quarter mile long and serves as one of the main <br />thoroughfares for the city. <br /> <br />TFR was contracted by the Texas Department of Transportation, TXDOT, to remove the bridge pieces and <br />other hazardous debris from the water so a new bridge could be constructed, and the public could begin to <br />use the lake again. To perform this work in a timely matter, TFR placed excavators and cranes onto barges <br />to help remove the debris while hiring divers to help locate the debris. TFR had 23 individual barges, two <br />excavators on the barges, a 30-ton crane, two-three teamed dive crews and multiple pieces of heavy <br />equipment. TFR has removed debris from the collapsed bridge as deep as 39 feet under the surface of the <br />water. <br /> <br />TFR is operating two sites, the first is on the barge and is used to pull debris from the water and temporarily <br />stockpile it. Each barge holds an excavator, a 30-ton crane, and various other pieces of equipment that are <br />used to remove the debris, along with TFR personnel and the divers. The other various equipment is <br />specialty types used for breaking the larger pieces of the bridge into smaller, more manageable sizes. After <br />the debris is placed on the barge it is transported to our second site, the segregation site, which is on land. <br />At the segregation site, there are self-loading grapple trucks (knuckle booms), excavators, wheel loaders, <br />and personnel that oversee separating debris by types: C&D, vegetative, concrete, metals, etc. After <br />ITB No. 23-04-01 <br />Disaster Debris Management and Disposal Services <br />24