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Notice to ('ontractors ,
State Bridge Building
Authority Project No. BA
(2) 589-F (1) County of
Wilkinson
Scaled proposals will be received by
the State Bridge Building Authority
at its General Office at No. 2 Cap
itol Square, Atlanta, Georgia, until 11
A.M. Eastern Standard time, July 30th
1954, for furnishingall labor, material,
equipment and other things neces
sary for construction of a bridge over
the Georgia Kaolin Railroad and 276
feet of paved approaches on the Irwin
ton - Macon Road. State Route 57. and
located 1000 feet west of the intersect
ion with State Route IS.
i Plans and specifications are on tile
at the^office ol the undersigned at At
lanta, and at the office of the State Hi
ghway Department, No.2CapitoiSquare
Atlanta, Georgia., w here they*may be
inspected free of charge.
Copies of the plans may be obtained
upon payment in advance of the sum
ol $4.00. Copies of the Standard Speci
fications may be obtained upon pay
ment in advance of the sum ol $3.00,
which sums will not be refunded.
The Standard Specifications of the
State Highway Department of Georgia
have been adopted by the State Bridge
Building Authority and will govern
any con-truction under these proposals.
The work will be let in one contract.
THE APPROXIMATE QUANTITIES
FOR ROADWAY ARE AS FOLLOWS
0.482 Acres Clearing & Grubbing-
Lump Sum
0 500 Acres Random Clearing &
Grubbing-- Per Acre
1364 Cu Yda. Unclassified Excava
tion & borrow, including ditch
es & shouldeis
8840 Sta Yds. overhaul on excava
tion
200 Cu.Yds Subgrade treatment ma
terial
2000 Unit Yds overhaul on subgrade
Treatment material
515 Sq Yds. Remove concrete pave
meet incl. raised edge curb
80 Lin. Ft. remove guard rail
2 Each reset guard rail posts
2 Each reset guard rail Braces
80 Lin. Ft. guard rail
160 Sq Yds. reinforced concrete
approach slab
1377 Sq. Yds. Sprigging Slopes &
shoulders
1.4 M.Gals water for grassing
0.11 Ton first application fertilizer
40 Lb. second application fertilizer
535 Sq.Yds. 8” plain cement con
crete paving
48 Lin. Ft. concrete raised edge
curb
552- Sq.Yds. finishing & dressing
DETOUR QUANTITIES
2500 Cu.Yds unclassified excava
tion & borrow
700 Cu.Yds. class *’A” sand clay
base
3500 Unit Yds. overhaul en base
material
910 Gals, cutback asphalt prime
2600 Sq.Yds. single surface^treat-
ment, Type 1
2600 Sq.Yds. liquid seal
APPROXIMATE QUANTITIES
FOR the BRIDGE ARE AS FOLLOWS
THE BULLETIN Irwinton, Ga. Fri. July 23, 1954
LEGAL AD SECTION
301 Cu.Yds. Class A’’ concrete
38900 Lbs. Bar reinforcing steel
625 On Yds Bridge Excavation
No. 1
Lump Sum Remove existing bridge
Lump Sum Construct, maintain &
remove Detour Hridgo
177 Lin. Ft. Concrete handrail.
Said work thall Lesin within ten (10
days after formal execution of contract
and shall be completed within 180 work
ing days. When contract has been ex
tent d, written notice shall be given
the Contractor, at which time, and not
before, work may be started.
Contract executed pursuant to this
Notice is binding on the State B. idge
Building Authority as such. Said con
tract will not create liability, expressed
or implied, against the under.-igned
Chairman of the State Bridge Building
Authority as an individual, nor against
any employee of the State Bridge
Building Authority in his or her ind
ividual capacity, nor against the under
signed as Chairman of the State High
way Department of Georgia, nor again
st any employee of the State Highway
Department in his or her individual
capacity.
Proposals must be submitted on
regular forms, which will be supplied
by the undersigned, and m us t be
accompanied by a c<rtilied check,
cashier’s check, negotiable United
States Bonds, or other acceptable
security in tne amount of $5Q0.00, and
mu u t be plainly marked “Proposal for
Bridge Construction,’’ County an d
Number, and show the time of opening
as adver.ised. Check of the low bidder
will be cashed and all other checks
will be returned as soon as the contract
is awarded, unless it is deemed advis
able by the State Bridge Building
Authority to hold one or more checks.
If an unusual condition arises, the
State Bridge Building Authority re -
serves the right to cash all cheeks.
Bidders Bund will not be accepted.
A charge of $5 00 will be made for
each proposal issued.
Such a bond will be required ol the
successful bidder as required by law for
contractors contracting with the State
Highway Department of Georgia.
Contracts will not be awarded to con
tractors who have not been placed on
the list of qualified contractors prior to
the date of award. No proposal will be
issued to any bidder later than 9 A.M.
Eastern Standard Time of the date of
opening bids.
All bids must show totals for each
item and total of amount of bid Right is
reserved to delay the award of the
contract for a period not to exceed
thirty (30) days from the date of open
ing bids, during which period bids
shall remain open and not subject to
withdrawal. Right is reserved to reject
any and all bids and to waive ail form
alities.
Upon compliance wi h the require
ments of the Standard Specifications,
Ninety (90)’ percent of the amount of
work done in any calendar month will
be paid for by the 25th. day of the suc
ceeding month, and the remainder
within thirty (30) days after final
estimate is approved by the Engineer.
This the 12th day of July 1954.
STATE BRIDGE BUILDISG AUTHORITY
Jim L. Gillis, Sr. Chairman
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SALES - SERVICE
$3 Billion in U.S. Expenditures
Fails To Halt Disastrous Floods
(Third of Four Articles)
By Edwin R. Cotton, President
American Watershed Council, Inc.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(Special)—Soil is our greatest reser
voir and will hold more water than all of the structures man
can build. Failure to recognize this simple fact has cost the
nation’s taxpayers billions of
- .
In taking cognizance of this
serious waste, a House report
on Soil Conservation and Watershed
Programs had this to say: “In the
past four decades more than $3 bil
lion of federal
Secy. Benson
; In considering Watershed legisla
tion, Congress recognizes that there
is a serious gap between upstream
activities of the Department of
Agriculture and the Department of
the Interior and downstream activi
ties of the Corps of Army Engineers.
It is expected that a program devel
oped in the watershed by local citi
zens with these agencies acting as
service organizations where the na
tional interest is involved, will bridge
this gap and enhance benefits to all
of the people in a river basin.
Joint Action Required
Responsibility for government’s
participation in small watershed soil
conservation and water retardation
programs will rest with Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra Benson under cur
rent watershed legislation. This leg
islation requires the Secretary to act
jointly with other federal agencies,
states, counties and other local gov
ernment units, soil conservation or
watershed districts and local citizens
groups in a program that will pro
vide an additional ■ means of aiding
in the conservation of scarce water
supplies.” , ... j
This new program is designed to
hold the water near where it falls,
either in the earth or in small hold
ing dams on branches and creeks in
watersheds off the main stream.
Conservationists have long advocated
such treatment to avert rapid runoff
and consequent soil erosion; also to
prevent water, accumulated in these
streams during heavy rains, from
converging on the main river simul
taneously and causing downstream
floods. Previously, too much reliance
was placed on big multi-purpose
dams to control such floods. These
have not done the jeb simply be
cause 70% of flood damage occurs on
the agricultural lands in the upper
reaches of the watersheds.
Exemption from taxation to give
preference customers a subsidy in
their electric power rates has had
a strong influence on decisions
build multi-purpose dams. Perhaps,
the watershed legislation, which pro
vides that “the cost of the programs
and improvements shall be shared
equitably between participants! in
proportion to the benefit each will
receive," might also be applied by
Congress to hydroelectric projects.
Certainly there might have been Jess
pressure for large dams and, qyitc
possibly, more upstream water treat?,
ment under way today, had the laws
governing sale of hydroelectricity to
public bodies and cooperatives been
based on a similar principle of equal
payment and if land owners had
, been consulted, instead of polici
’ tians. Economists feel that so long
as these public bodies and coopera
• tives get their power tax-free, while
’ the other 80% of the nation’s elec
tric consumers do not, pressure for
’ more power dams will continue.
’ On the other hand, they are en
. thusiastic over . the new watershed
• legislation because they see in it
’ direct economic benefits to agricul
• ture, industry and labor and to cities
j which are dependent on controlled
• runoff of water for adequate year--
round supply. All that is needed to
> make it work, they say, is complete
, coordination of local interests with
* Secretary Benson and other federal
i agencies.
funds have been
spent on flood
control projects
and still, every
year, almost
every month, dis
astrous floods
cause. damage
somewhere
throughout the
nation with
alarming regu
larity.”