$900,000 tab seen to fix freeway bridge
RENO -- The state could end up paying up to $900,000 to repair cracks on a bridge being built as part of a highway expansion between Reno and Carson City.
Officials for the Nevada Department of Transportation said the safety of the Galena Creek bridge is in no way jeopardized and that construction should be completed by fall 2011.
The cracks are up to 30-feet long and about the width of a dime at the widest point on the bridge that spans 1,700 feet some 300 feet above Galena Creek.
It's the latest setback in a series of contract disputes and other delays for the 8-mile-long highway bypass project .
NDOT project manager Brad Durski said the affected area will be strengthened with reinforcing steel and concrete, and cracks will be filled with epoxy.
