Missouri Highway and Transportation Department 1992 Annual Report

44 Pages·1993·22 MB·English

by  Missouri Department of Transportation, Missouri Highway and Transportation Department

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1992
Annual Report
Missouri Highway and Transportation Department

contents
the commission -- page 1
the staff -- page 1
the district staff -- page 2
the districts -- page 5
the divisions -- page 19
The Missouri Highway Missouri Highway and Transportation
and Transportation Com Commissioners ending fiscal year
mission is a six-member, 1992
bipartisan governing body for
the Missouri Highway and Harry T. Morley
Chairman
Transportation Department. The
Carol Williamson
governor with the Senate's consent
Member
appoints members to staggered, six
John L. Oliver
year terms on the commission. No more
Member
than three commissioners may be of the
Thomas John Barklage
same political party. Member
The commission appoints the chief engi James W. Gamble
neer, chief counsel and commission secre Member
tary. The chief engineer with commission Thomas M. Boland
approval appoints all other appointments. Member
Missouri Highway and Transportation Department officials ending
fiscal year 1992 ·'
Wayne Muri Bob Drusch
Chief Engineer Director
Walt Vandellcht Fiscal Services
Assistant Chief Engineer Roy Lilley
Frank Carroll Director
Assistant to the Chief Engineer Information Systems
Design Terry Porterfield
Joe Mickes Director
Assistant to the Chief Engineer Internal Review, Audit and Systems
Operations Dave Snider
Ray McCray Division Engineer
Assistant to the Chief Engineer Maintenance and Traffic
Administrative Services Bill Trimm
Rich Tiemeyer Division Engineer
Chief Counsel Materials and Research
Marl Ann Winters Rich Millard
Commission Secretary Director
Al Laffoon Personnel
Division Engineer Phil Jackson
Bridge Division Engineer
Gary Chullino Planning
Division Engineer Sue Muck
Construction Director
Bob Sfreddo Public Affairs
Division Engineer Art Taylor
Design Director
Jiggs Miner Right of Way
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Director Mel Sundermeyer
Equipment and Procurement Director
Transportation
District 1 District 6
Northwest Area St. Louis Area
3602 N. Belt Highway 329 S. Kirkwood Road
P.O. Box 287 Kirkwood, Mo. 63122
St. Joseph, Mo. 64502 [phone]
[phone]
District 7
District 2 Southwest Area
North Central Area 410 Range Line Road
U.S. Route 63 P.O. Box 1445
P.O. Box 8 Joplin, Mo. 64802
Macon, Mo. 63552 [phone]
(816) 385-31 76
District 8
District 3 Springfield Area
Northeast Area 3025 East Kearney
Highway 61 South M.O. Box 868
P.O. Box 1067 Springfield, Mo. 65801
Hannibal, Mo. 63401 [phone]
[phone]
District 9
District 4 South Central Area
Kansas City Area U.S. Route 63 North
5117 East 31st Street P.O. Box 220
Kansas City, Mo. 64128 Willow Springs, Mo. 65793
[phone] [phone]
District 5 District 10
Central Area Southeast Area
1511 Missouri Blvd. P.O. Box 160
P.O. Box 718 Sikeston, Mo. 63801
Jefferson City, Mo. 65102 [phone]
[phone]
Missouri Highway and Transportation Department
district engineers ending fiscal year 1992
Garry Chegwidden J.T. Yarnell
Northwest Area St. Louis Area
District Engineer District Engineer
Jim Jackson Ken Stalcup
Southwest Area
North Central Area
District Engineer
District Engineer
Willis Graven
Dick Jones
Springfield Area
Northeast Area
District Engineer
District Engineer .
Royce Fugate
Bob Chappell
South Central Area
Kansas City Area
District Engineer
District Engineer 0
Freeman Mccullah
Jim Toft
SoutheastArea
Central Area
District Engineer
District Engineer

the
districts
District 1 consists design plans for upcoming projects. Other
District 1 of 12 counties in design responsibilities include liaison between
northwest Missouri; counties and MHTD, coordination of utility
St. Joseph
the district office is work with contract projects, dissemination of
in St. Joseph. There information to the public on upcoming projects
are about 485 employ and operation and maintenance of the district
ees working in seven computer systems.
departments. The Equipment and Procurement Department
The Maintenance and Traffic maintains the district's equipment including 45
Department is divided into 10 passenger vehicles, 40 pickups, 200 trucks
areas, which are comprised of 32 (mainly dump trucks} and 280 pieces of off-road
subareas across the district. These subareas equipment. This fleet equals an investment of
performed routine maintenance work and about $10.9 million. The district spends about
specialized work such as replacing cross-road $. 7 million yearly for parts. Operating costs for
pipes and repairing bridge decks. the 12-county area are about $2 million yearly.
Construction was completed on 4,000-ton The Materials and Research Department
salt domes at Cameron and Bethany. Mainte samples and tests all materials used in the
nance operations were moved to the new maintenance and construction of roadways.
Gallatin Maintenance Building, four miles west This work determines compliance with the
of Gallatin. Work is progressing in obtaining a department's specifications and insures only
new lot for the North St. Joseph Maintenance high-quality products are used. Materials and
Building. Research personnel have various areas of
Temporary traffic signals were constructed in responsibility that include the following:
Cameron at Route 36 and Griffin Road. As of (1) designing and monitoring Portland cement
June 30, 1992, 413 groups were enrolled in the concrete and asphaltic concrete mixtures;
Adopt-A-Highway program. (2) sub-surface investigations required for
Route 71 through southern Maryville and highway and bridge design;
the overpass on Route 169 over Interstate 29 (3) investigating and monitoring the perfo r
were restriped from four lanes to three after mance of new materials and/or products for use
traffic studies of the area. in the department; and
District 1 has three resident engineer offices. (4) sampling and testing for the Federal
They are in Maryville, St. Joseph and Cameron. Highway Administration (FHWA}.
Major construction projects included the Aggregate quality control is a large part of
following: this department's duties. During fiscal year
Interstate 29, Andrew County -- resurfacing; 1992, materials personnel inspected 1,280,836
Interstate 35, Daviess County - resurfacing; tons of various types of aggregate.
Route 59, Buchanan County- resurfacing, The Right of Way Department has five em-
bridge rehabilitation; ployees. This department acquires right of way
Route 169, Buchanan County- relocation for projects, maintenance lots or other depart
of route, bridge replacement; ment projects. It also handles the sale of excess
Route 116, Caldwell County-resurfacing; property for the district.
Route 69, Daviess/DeKalb counties - The
resurfacing; Fiscal Services Department's duties
Route 36, DeKalb County - construct
include payroll, time sheets, overdimension
interchange at Route 69; and
permits and inventories and processing com
Route B, Andrew County - resurfacing,
mercial invoices. Fiscal Services personnel
bridge rehabilitation.
handle the following: typing, processing incom
There were nine projects awarded in District
ing and outgoing mail, personnel matters,
1 totaling $14,524,895 in construction costs.
insurance, maintenance of the district office
In addition, 11 county road bridges with bids
and garage, the writing of the district report for
totaling $2,215,443 were let under the Off
and distribution of the Hi"hway and Transpor
System Program monitored by the district
tation News, appointments, phone calls, ex
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liaison engineer.
pense checks and salary checks.
The Design Department has four design
The District 1 Highway Credit Union, work-
squads and one survey party that develop
ers' compensation claims, and insurance
and retirement matters are this department's penings.
responsibilities. District 1 has had 15 employees selected as
District 1 conducts cardiopulmonary resus department Employee of the Month award
citation/first-aid classes and commercial winners.
drivers' training for employees. The district The district also has many activities such as
holds service award dinners each year and pre the annual Employees' Association softball
retirment seminars every three years. The tournament to raise money for a needy family at
district also held a meeting for retirees to Christmas, bowling tournaments and steak
inform them of department changes and hap- dinners for employees who are retiring.
District 2 oversees highway activities in *many smaller bridge and
north central Missouri. The 14 counties of resurfacing jobs.
District 2 are Adair, Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, There are 54 construction
Howard, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Mercer, employees. In all, District 2
Putnam, Randolph, Saline, Schuyler and has 450 employees.
Sullivan. These 14 counties contain more than District 2 has an District 2
8,000 square miles. Within this 8,000 square active and proud
miles are 3,746 miles of highway - 24 miles of history of dedicated Macon
interstate, 733 miles of primary and 2,989 miles and involved employ
of supplementary roads. ees. One of the earliest
Eleven maintenance areas with 32 buildings MHTD Employees of the
maintain this large road system. In addition, Month was Maintenance
there are five special crews in two locations to Superintendent Norman Mears,
handle tasks such as signing, striping and who is retired. Mears was also
bridge and pavement repair. District 2 has 314 selected a state Employee of the
maintenance employees. Month. Mears was instrumental in achiev-
The Design Department has 30 employees, ing the district's safety record, which has been
which are headquartered at the district office in the best in the state for many years. ·
Macon. The district office also has the Right of The district encourages civic and service
Way Department with eight employees, the groups to participate in the Adopt-A-Highway
Fiscal Services Department with 11 employees Program. As of June 30, 1992, there were 332
and the Equipment and Procurement Depart groups adopting 641 miles of highway. One
ment with 29 employees, which includes 15 adoption is for a section of 10 miles or longer;
field mechanics assigned to the district's main the average adopted section is nearly two miles.
tenance buildings. District employees have spent many hours
Of the 11 Materials and Research Depart explaining the program at meetings and making
ment employees in District 2, two are at adoption presentations.
Marshall. Their main duty is to inspect precast
bridge beams at the Quinn precast plant. Most
precast bridge beams for Missouri highway
projects originate here. The two District 2
inspectors make sure the beams are built
according to department plans and specifica-
tions.
Three resident engineers working from four
offices manage the district's construction work.
Major construction projects include the follow
ing:
*four-laning Route 63 south of Macon;
*relocating a portion of U.S. 65 in southern
Mercer County;
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*replacement, of the bridge over the Sao Line
railroad on U.S. 65 south of Chillicothe: and
District 3, head grading, drainage and bridges for the Mexico
District 3 quartered at bypass (paving not included}; 4. 7 miles; 75
Hannibal, encom percent complete.
Hannibal
passes the area of *Route 61, Clark County, $2,940,610 -
Audrain, Clark, Knox. bridge replacements, grading, drainage and
Lewis, Lincoln, Marton, asphalt pavement at Fox River and one mile
Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, west of Route 136; 1.3 miles; 25 percent com
Ralls, Scotland, Shelby and plete.
Warren counties. Within its Route 54, Audrain County, $1,256,558 -
jurisdiction, District 3 has 3,609 asphalt resurfacing and bridge rehabilitation
miles of two-lane highways. In all, from Route 22 to Route 19 South Junction;
403 people work at the Hannibal district. The 11.4 miles; 5 percent complete.
district has 10 subareas, 38 maintenance The District 3 Materials and Research De
buildings and two resident engineer offices at partment is responsible for the inspection of
Hannibal and Mexico. material from 35 quarries, eight sand produc
The district's construction projects include ers, one mineral-filler producer, three cement
the following: plants and two asphalt cement terminals. In
*Route E in Lincoln County, $427,316 - 1992, 1,327,951 tons of aggregate, 39,571 tons
bridge rehabilitation and asphalt resurfacing of cement and 5,815,153 tons of asphalt were
from east of Route UU to Route 61; 5. 17 3 miles; inspected.
completed 8/22/91. Inspection was also provided at three precast
*Route Win Marton County, $205,260 - facilities and two prestress/precast plants
shaping shoulders, guardrail, pavement repair where temporary barrier curb, drop inlets,
and asphalt resurfacing from Route 61 to Route manholes, reinforced concrete pipe. earth
Nin Hannibal; completed 8/16/91. panels and prestressed bridge girders and deck
*Route 15 in Shelby County, $778,028 - panels are produced.
bridge rehabilitation and asphalt resurfacing A total of 924 identification numbers were
from Knox County line to Route 168 in assigned in fiscal year 1992. This includes
Shelbyville; 12.034 miles; completed 8/2/91. general material samples submitted to MHTD's
*Route 54 in Audrain County, $2,369,057 - central laboratory for further testing, trial mix
constructing a bridge and concrete pavement material and material reports. Soil survey
from Callaway County line north to Route D; reports were completed for five construction
3.722 miles; completed 4/29/92. projects.
*Route 61 Business Loop in Pike County, District 3's territory has some unique fea
$370,187 - cold milling, bridge rehabilitation tures. For example, in District 3 the scenic
and asphalt resurfacing from Route 61 to Route Great River Road follows Route 79 from
161 in Bowling Green; 2.828 miles; completed Hannibal to Old Monroe, and the Lewis and
11/20/91. Clark Trail follows Route 94 in Warren and
*Route MM, Marton County, $548,155 - Montgomery counties. The Mark Twain Lake
bridge rehabilitation and asphalt resurfacing and Clarence Cannon Dam are major recre
from Route 36 east to Route 61 (in Hannibal}; ational attractions in District 3.
5.2 miles; completed 9/27 /91. The district office and garage buildings were
*Route 25, Monroe County, $1,176,117 - modified, and the Computer-Aided Drafting and
drainage, pavement repair and asphalt resur Design (CADD} system was implemented fully.
facing from Madison to Route 154; 10 miles; As of June 30, 1992, District 3 had 408
completed 10/15/91. groups enrolled in Missouri's Adopt-A-Highway
*Route V, Montgomery County, $404,664 - program.
grading, drainage, bridge replacement and
asphalt pavement 1.8 miles east of Route 161 at
Big Wolf Creek; 0.5 miles; 80 percent complete.
*Route 61, Ralls County, $1,389,226 -
grading, bridge replacement and asphalt resur
facing from Route Y to south of Bear Creek; 0.6
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miles; completed 8/6/91.
'Route 54, Audrain County, $6,904,190 --