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Fill7 • - Howard R. Green Company CONSULTING ENGINEERS February 3, 1999 File: 800110J-0060 Mr. Paul Steinman Director of Economic Development City of Elk River 13065 Orono Parkway P.O. Box 490 Elk River, MN 55330 RE: EAST ELK RIVER IMPROVEMENTS TENATIVE SCHEDULE Dear Mr. Steinman: As you requested, I have put together what I believe to be a tentative schedule for the East Elk • River improvements. We have assumed the City Council will consider the award for the large project at their February 22, 1999 Council meeting. Based on this, it will take approximately two weeks for the necessary paperwork before the contractor can be given the Notice to Proceed and mobilize to the site. This means that construction activities would start in early March. Initially, the contractor has several weeks of setting up dewatering prior to any underground construction beginning. I believe it would be safe to assume that no serious underground construction would start before April 1, 1999. We would look for the contractor to have sanitary sewer and water serviced through the Trott Brook Farms, Elk River Crossing and Vandenberg Industrial Development by September 1, 1999. In our original contract documents we anticipated a February 1, 1999 start date. Assuming the contractor starts approximately two months late, we believe the project would be half to three quarters complete by the winter shutdown of 1999. This would mean the sanitary sewer and water project would not be complete until mid summer of the year 2000. Plans for the street and storm sewer portion of the project are near completion and would be ready to submit to Mn/DOT within 30-days. The one concern with this portion of the project is that all of the rights-of-way necessary for the street construction must be within the City's control prior to the project being approved by Mn/DOT for letting. If we assume that at least one of the parcels of property that is necessary for the street construction will go through the eminent domain process, it is reasonable to believe that we will not have all of the necessary rights-of- way until August 1999. I believe it would take approximately 60-days from the time that the right-of-way is all obtained until the project is let. Therefore, the project would not begin construction until sometime after October 1, 1999. Obviously at that time of year all that we • could hope for to be accomplished in 1999 would be the storm sewer construction and some of o./proj./110-0203.feb 1326 Energy Park Drive • St. Paul, MN 55108 • 651/644-4389 fax 651/644-9446 toll free 888/368-4389