xxxx xx INSIDE: Fairfax mulls options on bamboo management • Page 7 TEXT SUNGAZETTE to 22828 14 16 to sign up SPECIAL MARSHALL SECTION LOOKS TO for weekly LOOKS DEFEND AT PETS ITS CROWN E-editions! Sun Gazette GREAT FALLS McLEAN OAKTON TYSONS VIENNA VOLUME 42 NO. 8 DECEMBER 3-9, 2020 Hunter Mill Road Bridge to Be Modernized VDOT Plans to Give Outdated, Single-Lane Span a $5.5 Million Makeover BRIAN TROMPETER Sta Writer Another decaying one-lane bridge in northeast Fairfax County is about to be replaced by a new two-lane span. The Board of Supervisors was slated Dec. 1 to endorse the Virginia Depart- ment of Transportation’s (VDOT) plans to remove a 30-foot-long, single-lane span on Hunter Mill Road at Colvin Run in the Vienna/Reston area and replace it with a 40-foot-long, two-lane bridge. The new bridge would have two 11- foot-wide travel lanes, plus safety im- provements including a rectangular, rap- id-ashing beacon, a median refuge and a splitter island to divide the approaching road lanes and encourage drivers to slow down. The ashing beacon and median ref- uge would provide additional safety for The Virginia Department of Transportation next year plans to install a new two-lane bridge on drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists where Hunter Mill Road at Colvin Run to replace this failing one-lane span, which was built in 1974. the Colvin Run Stream Valley Trail VDOT will fund most of the project, with Fairfax County chipping in the rest. crosses Hunter Mill Road just south of would need to supply $408,000 for the rosion of steel girder webs and anges, the bridge, according to a county staff splitter island, median refuge and ashing and needs immediate replacement, of- report. In addition, VDOT plans to build beacon. cials said. abutments for a future trail crossing over VDOT held a Sept. 16 public meeting The bridge received additional timber Colvin Run. on the project’s design and received writ- shoring underneath in 2012, had knee VDOT this winter will solicit construc- ten and oral comments from 28 people, braces added in 2016 and on Feb. 29 this tion bids for the project. Ofcials expect none of whom opposed the project out- year got emergency reinforcement in the construction to begin next spring and be right. Six, however, still favored having a form of additional wooden beams be- completed by summer 2022. one-lane bridge at the site. tween its I-beams. In order for the bridge The bridge replacement and other The current bridge, built in 1974, han- to remain open to trafc, ofcials trimmed improvements would cost about $5.5 mil- dles about 8,500 vehicles per day, VDOT the span’s load rating to 10 tons and cut lion, including $930,000 for preliminary ofcials said. its lane width to about 10 feet. engineering and $4.6 million for construc- Since 2006, Fairfax County ofcials VDOT also is moving ahead with ef- tion. have planned for there to be a two-lane forts to replace a single-lane bridge on VDOT would pay for most of the proj- bridge at the site. The existing span is Springvale Road in Great Falls with a ect, but the Fairfax County government structurally decient, with signicant cor- two-lane span. ONLINE https://sungazette.news l On Facebook: sungazettenews l On Twitter: @sungazettenews @sungazettespts Local Postal Customer Postal Local Michel Rene Salon & Spa • PERMIT NO. 260 NO. 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A staff report pointed Public-works ofcials want to the shared use being planned to use the Construction Man- for the site and the intricate agement at Risk (CMAR) pro- phasing that will be required to curement method for both the build the re station while con- project’s pre-construction and tinuing operations at the existing ect to meet Leadership in En- cause it allows the contractor to tion reviews, which would keep construction phases. transit facility. ergy and Environmental Design be involved with developing the the project within its cost esti- The project will be built at The project will require in- (LEED) Gold certication, with complex phasing plan for the mate and reduce the number of 8300 Jones Branch Drive in Ty- stallation of complex re-sta- energy efciency improved by 30 project’s construction. change orders. sons, just southeast of the inter- tion infrastructure and systems, percent. The building also will be “Having the contractor on Using CMAR obviates the section of Spring Hill Road and including a Plymovent diesel- constructed in a way that could board during the design will need for the usual three-month- the Dulles Toll Access Road. exhaust-extraction system, a accommodate future installation identify those challenges and long bidding process after com- The initiative will include a new, Westnet rst-alert public-safety- of solar panels. provide solutions to minimize pletion of the project’s design, 20,000-square-foot re station notication system, full emer- Ofcials will coordinate the the disruption to the services the county ofcials said. If ofcials with ve bays and a seven-bay gency-power backup equipment, project with the Fairfax County facility provides,” county staff determine that the maximum bus-transit facility, plus related vehicle apparatus bays located Department of Transportation, wrote in a summary given to su- price under this procurement site work and roadway upgrades. adjacent to re-and-rescue per- which plans in the future to build pervisors. method is too high, they also About $15 million of the sonnel’s living quarters and a an access ramp through the proj- The CMAR method also al- have the option of moving for- project’s $20 million cost will go preemptive trafc-signal system. ect site between the toll road and lows the contractor to conduct ward with the traditional de- toward construction, according Additionally, the county gov- Jones Branch Drive. ongoing cost validations, plus sign-bid-build process, the staff’s to county ofcials. ernment is developing the proj- CMAR is advantageous be- value engineering and construc- summary read. 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