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Reader Service Number 1 CONTENTS April CONTENTS2007 Cover Story Grouting Operations in Support of Tunnel Construction 14 Several case histories illustrate how three different grouting techniques were employed to support tunneling operations. By Brian O’Gara, Brad Crenshaw, Dwayne Lewis and Dan Thome Features Delving Into Untamed Waters 18 Kansas City’s Turkey Creek Tunnel was in serious trouble, and an innovative rehab solution was required. By Jason Morgan Microtunneling Under Railroad Tracks With Shallow Cover 20 Dawn Underground Engineering Inc. (DUE) was commissioned to install a storm sewer section to cross under 12 existing railway lines in Linden, N.J. 14 By Lucy Glodkowski and Jozef Zurawski Grouting for the Baumgartner Tunnel in St. Louis 26 The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District’s $3.7 billion Capital Improvement and Replacement Plan involved a tricky tunnel that required an innovative grouting program. By James W. Rush Cleveland Underground: Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s Tunneling Program 28 Under the direction of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD), some $2 billion worth of projects have been completed in the Cleveland area over the last 30-plus years, with much more to come. By James W. Rush Triad Tunnels with HOBAS CCFRPM on Two Separate Cleveland Projects 32 NEORSD recently completed two microtunneling projects as part of its ongoing program, both utilizing fiberglass pipe. By Kimberly Paggioli Differing Site Condition Claims – What You Need to Know 34 26 Inevitably, most people involved in the heavy construction industry will at some point encounter a differing site condition (DSC) claim. Each party’s obligations and risks are examined. By Peter M. Kutil, Esq. and Karl Silverberg, P.E., Esq. Columns Editor’s Message . .4 View from the Hole . .6 My Turn . .42 TBM: Tunnel Business Magazine (ISSN 1553-2917) is published six times per year. Copyright 2007, Benjamin Media Inc., P.O. Box 190, Peninsula, OH 44264. Departments USA All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted by any means without written permission from the publisher. One year subscription rates: complimentary in the United States and Canada, and $69 Business Briefs . .7 in other foreign countries. Single copy rate: $10. Subscriptions and classified Products . .38 advertising should be addressed to the Peninsula office. Postmaster return form 1579 to TBM: Tunnel Business Magazine, P.O. Box 190, Peninsula, OH 44264.USA Calendar . .41 April 2007 Tunnel Business Magazine 3 tbm_4.qxd 1/7/2008 11:25 AM Page 4 EDITOREDITOR’S MESSAGE’S MESSAGE Bernard P. Krzys Publisher Northeast Ohio’s Richard J. Krzys ‘Stealth’ Organization Robert D. Krzys It seems as though the big cities along the coasts gain Associate Publishers much of the attention when it comes to tunneling James W. Rush programs, and for good reason. New York and Los Editor Angeles are the two largest population centers in the Nick Zubko United States, so it stands to reason that the demand Associate Editor for underground infrastructure is greatest there. Sharon M. Bueno Additionally, the need for mass transportation in these Katherine Fulton areas draws high-dollar projects, and there is no Keith Gribbins underestimating the difficulties and challenges Brad Kramer associated with near — surface construction. Jason Morgan In addition to the Big Apple and Lalaland, cities like Contributing Staff Editors Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, San Diego, Vancouver, W.M. Conley Boston and Washington, D.C., are garnering interest for a number of Creative Director upcoming projects. But in the middle of the country there are many cities Edward A. Haney that have been quietly going about their business; chipping away miles of Senior Graphic Designer earth for wastewater projects in a workmanlike fashion. Sarah E. Hayes One such city is Cleveland, Ohio. Under the direction of the Northeast Chris Slogar Ohio Regional Sewer District, more than 100 miles of sewer tunnel have been Elizabeth C. Stull driven in the Cleveland area over the last 30 years. Currently, the district is Graphic Designers finishing the final leg of the 20-ft diameter Mill Creek Tunnel, after which it Kelly Dadich will begin a large-scale CSO control program on the city’s East Side. The Marketing Manager district has tentatively laid out a $1.6 billion program over the next 30 years. Dan Sisko (For more details, see the article onpages 28-31.) Regional Sales Representative Charles Vasulka, director of engineering and construction for NEORSD, Alexis R. Tarbet summed it up like this: “Some of the bigger cities have not driven more tun- Circulation Coordinator nel than us, it’s just that we’ve done it quietly. We joke around here that we are a stealth organization.” While he concedes that the district is changing its operating mode, he says the workmanlike culture is not likely to change. One Editorial Council of the reasons for the need to change the culture is because the new pro- grams mean resetting the rate structure — and that requires the district to Chairman William H. Edgerton be more proactive in its public relations. Gary Brierley, P.E. Jacobs Associates Brierley Associates, San Francisco But while the PR may be a new aspect of the work, driving tunnel will Denver Joe Gildner continue, business as usual. Randy Essex, P.E. Sound Transit Hatch Mott MacDonald Seattle Rockville, Md. Boro Lukajic RETC Headed to Canada Consulting Engineer If you haven’t already done so, make plans to attend the Rapid Excavation Roberto Gonzalez Mississauga, Ont. Izquierdo and Tunneling Conference, scheduled for June 10-13 in Toronto. This is the Moldequipo Internacional Dru Desai premier tunneling event in North America for 2007 and promises to be well- Tepotzotlan, Mexico DMJM+HARRIS Baltimore attended considered the strength of both the tunneling and mining sectors. Dr. Levent Ozdemir, P.E. Ted Budd A more detailed preview with information on the latest offerings from the Colorado School of Mines Kenny Construction leading companies in the industry will be presented in the June issue of Golden, Colo. Wheeling, Ill. TBM. In the meantime, you can find information at www.retc.org. Bob Pond David Caiden Frontier-Kemper Arup RETC is organized by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Explo- Evansville, Ind. New York, N.Y. ration (SME). George Yoggy Rick Switalski, P.E. GCS LLC NEORSD Allentown, Pa. Cleveland, Ohio Regards, EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING OFFICES MEMBER 1770 Main St., P.O. Box 190 James W. Rush Peninsula, OH 44264 USA Editor Ph: (330) 467-7588 • Fax: (330) 468-2289 Internet home page: http://www.tunnelingonline.com e-mail: [email protected] 4 Tunnel Business Magazine April 2007 Reader Service Number 2 The View from the Hole Sweet Old Bob Settles into New Digs These pages were once filled with I’m irreverent to a fault, cynical, skep- Emperor has hid- by Bob Pond the musings of some fellow calling him- tical, idealistic, patriotic, loyal to den his clothes. I self Dr. Mole. After having pried open friends, scourge of foes, lover of the know a few real heroes and heroines of the lid on a number of provocative good and good-hearted, puncturer of the industry who won’t ever get their ideas, and offering some pretty good windbags, iconoclast, serendipitist, picture on the cover, and I’ll tell their suggestions, he disappears from view. entertaining speaker, often sane, some- story to you. We might thumb through Did he cross the GBR line and become times accomplished; I’m sartorially the pages of Through the Looking disoriented in Differing Site unconscious. I’ve almost bought the Glass again to see if it is true that the Conditions land? I don’t know where farm a few times so I have a high Mad Queen of Hearts has a low-num- he really is but he did send me a text appreciation for the basics and no tol- bered identity badge for One Penn message that I should move into his erance for trivia. Plaza. Sometimes we’ll mix in an inter- burrow and keep it warm. So, until I By now you are thinking, “Well gee, view, putting on our Tom Poston mask run out of ideas or my worthy Editor that’s nice, but what does all that have and chatting up the second bidders, actually reads a column and who are always sure that the low boots me out, Sweet Old Bob bidder is nuts. I’ve got a pal or will be yammering away on sub- two in the legal community and jects that interest him, and I’ll ask them to testify under hopefully interest you, too. For “use immunity” about some literary purposes, and because Most of all, we thorny issues facing the indus- this is G-rated publication, we’ll try. If I can find Toto, I’ll ask the call this series “The View from need Joe and little fella to help me pull back the Hole.” So, “Auf the curtain so we can all have a Wiedersehen, Doktor Mole!” look behind it. My job, gentle We’ll miss you, and there’s plen- Jane Lunchbox, reader, is to entertain, provoke, ty of room in this old burrow and every once in a while, to anytime you need to bunk up. those who toil in throw a pail of water on the By way of introduction I’ve Wicked Witch of the West. got about 45 years of experi- I like the gang at TBM maga- ence in nearly every phase on the bowels of zine so I'll try to do a good job the “doin’ it” side of mining, for them, and for you. We're all tunneling, shaft sinking and in this together; we need own- heavy construction.