Wisconsin company gets bid to build foundation for new St. Croix Bridge
Regional News-- A Wisconsin company will build the foundation for the new four-lane bridge across the Saint Croix River between Hudson and Stillwater, Minnesota. Edward Kraemer-and-Sons of Plain in Sauk County was named the winning bidder yesterday.
PLAIN - A Wisconsin company will build the foundation for the new four-lane bridge across the Saint Croix River between Hudson and Stillwater, Minnesota. Edward Kraemer-and-Sons of Plain in Sauk County was named the winning bidder yesterday.
The firm will get almost $37-million to build five piers up to 15-feet above the river’s normal elevation – plus eight shafts per pier, drilled to 120-feet below the river bed. The foundation work will begin next week. It’s supposed to be finished by mid-2014, but officials say Kraemer will get incentives if it’s done by the early part of the year.
The main bridge construction begins next summer – and the new structure is expected to open in 2016. It replaces an 80-year-old lift bridge that goes into downtown Stillwater. Congress and President Obama agreed to work around federal protections a year ago to get the new bridge built. Supporters and environmentalists had debated the project for decades before that.
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