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The Perini tutor, Lunda Construction, has landed a $ 60.2 million contract to update a 113 -year -old section in Rothschild, Wisconsin.
The scope of the Rothschild’s Modernization project includes replaced a 276 -footed wooden dam 276 feet with a concrete prey with cofferdams for rivers, according to a Perini News Tutor.
The original dam was built in 1912 to feed the Rothschild mill and the pulp wood channel from above. Its construction, which covered 663 feet through the Wisconsin River, created Lake Wausau, According to a project page of the Forest Company of Montreal Company Dominatethe owner of the dam. The company projects its total cost for the project to be $ 84 million.
The job also includes:
- Demolition of the structure of the prey of the existing timer.
- Installation of deep foundations for structural support.
- Placement of reinforced concrete.
- Construction of a new control building.
- Installation of a prefabricated bridge.
- Installation of new dam doors.
The wooden section of the dam was last replaced in 1964, according to To tune, With Rothschild Mill investing $ 12 million in maintenance and repairs since then. But regular repairs have no longer been considered enough by the energy regulatory commission. Currently, the dam provides less than 10% of the total energy needs of the mill.
The victory of the Lunda project arrives as the prey aging in all the United States has received greater scrutiny in recent years. A 2023 Dam Security Official Association Report He found that it would cost almost $ 158 billion to rehabilitate the 88,616 poor and non -federal prey in the country. Of this amount, more than $ 34 million would be needed to solve the most critical structures.
In the meantime, Failure from prey to Michigan and Spillway Oroville de California They have underlined the consequences of deferred maintenance.
Lunda began working on the Rothschild’s modernization project in July and provides for substantial completion by early 2029
