It will take until the end of October – and about $1.2 million dollars – for the state Department of Transportation and its emergency contractors to build a temporary bridge to replace the 100-year-old span that was destroyed in the fatal Aug. 18 storms and flooding, and finally get traffic moving again along one of Connecticut’s major traffic corridors. “In my 30 year career I have never seen devastation this bad from a storm event,” said John Lee, the DOT’s district engineer. There is currently no time estimate for the eventual construction of a permanent span with steel beams setting on the new concrete abutments. Designs are being handled by agency workers in the DOT’s Newington headquarters. Lee said the DOT was lucky that Manafort Brothers is a big enough company to come in on short notice. Over the last month or so, the company has worked seven-day weeks under the state’s emergency contract.
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