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Reclamation to Temporarily Detour Traffic on Strand Avenue to Replace Bridge Crossing

Media Contact: Doug Hendrix, 702-293-8391, 10/17/2016 13:33

For Release: October 17, 2016

Yuma, Ariz. — Reclamation’s Yuma Area Office (YAO) is temporarily establishing a traffic detour beginning Wednesday, November 2, 2016 on Strand Avenue. The detour will direct traffic away from a bridge crossing that spans the Main Outlet Drain Extension (MODE) canal near the levee road as it enters into the Cocopah Bend RV & Golf Resort area. (See attached Strand Avenue Detour map at http://www.usbr.gov/lc/images/maps/ModeBridgeAtStrandAveDetourR1.jpg. YAO is replacing the bridge crossing and will install a temporary bypass piping system for rerouting water from within the MODE canal during construction. The existing structure will be replaced with a dual box concrete culvert configuration using both cast-in-place and pre-cast concrete supports and infrastructure.

The project is anticipated to take approximately 120 days starting in November 2016 and ending in approximately March 2017.

For more information, please contact Michael Igoe, Reclamation Facilities Engineering Group Manager, Yuma Area Office, 7301 Calle Agua Salada, Yuma, AZ 85364, or migoe@usbr.gov.

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