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The $ 328 million Sanibel Causeway Restoration Project It has achieved a substantial completion, returning a part of 3 miles from the critical connection from the island of Sanibel to Florida Continental, according to a statement of May 20 of the project team.
The 12 mile causaway, which opened in 1963, covers San Carlos Bay and consists of three two -lane bridges with artificial islands.
In September 2022, Hurricane Ian destroyed the causewayCutting the Sanibel and captive islands of the rest of the state of Florida and leaving the residents stuck. Two portions of the ramp and a section of the road crossing an island in the middle of the cause was washed in the storm.
An emergency response team of Restored temporary access for higher construction In 15 days – 12 days earlier than expected – as a design to fix the bridge it was still under development.
A joint Jacksonville company, Miami Superior, based in Miami, has restored the 3 mile section.
The Sanibel Causeway bridge, which was rebuilt after Hurricane Ian damaged the reach that connected the island of Sanibel and Continental Florida in September 2022.
Courtesy of superior
The project marks the first Florida Dot design creation contract. Moya’s upper team had to navigate the complex logistics, maintaining two lanes open for traffic flow throughout the construction, according to the statement.
At Peak Construction, the JV coordinated several crews simultaneously: three for the driving of batteries, four for the Earth, two for the drainage of storms, six for the tie of receiving, eight for the placement of concrete and three for asphalt paving.
The Reconstructed Causeway has a greater resilience of storms, according to the statement. That includes:
- Steel -stack systems: Almost 750,000 square feet, or 26.2 million pounds, including a king’s stack system, with lengths that vary from 20 to 70 feet.
- Concrete heads: approximately 19,750 Total linear feet.
- 127,996 tons of strategically placed armor stone.
- The raised sea walls from 5 feet to 8 feet.
- Advanced rainwater drainage systems throughout the causeway.
- It is placed 19,500 tonnes of asphalt pavement.
- Innovative Scour Prevention Prevention System that uses 25,225 square meters of Gabion marine mattress and 79,000 tons of rap stone and coastal bedding.
- 6,900 linear feet of various barriers of permanent concrete of the road.
- 25,000 square feet of fractured fins concrete.
During the construction, these characteristics faced stress. In 2024 Hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton struck Florida. The completed sections resisted these storms intact, according to the statement, although the unfinished areas were washed.
