New Road Design
Kotzebue, Alaska
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Under contract to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, RPKA was retained to design a new 3.7 mile, $6 million road to divert traffic around the airport runway and to serve the community as the link to the new solid waste facility. The firm was responsible for:
- Environmental assessment
- Feasibility study
- Preliminary engineering
- Road location survey
- Road location mapping
- Road location study
- Geotechnical investigation
- Hydrology study
- Final road design
- Final drainage design
- Preconstruction activities
Public participation was an important aspect of the project, which RPKA handled in-house. Key elements involved leading all meetings with the City of Kotzebue and their City Council, to obtain approval from all pertinent agencies and in-house BIA groups.
Client: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Juneau Area Office
Mr. Art High, P.E., P.L.S., Regional Design Engineer
Completion Date: 1997
Project Manager/Geotechnical Engineer: Rodney P. Kinney, Jr., P.E.
Project Engineer: Mark A. Alder, P.E.
Project Engineer: Brian L. Pederson, P.E., P.L.S.
Surveyors: Kevin M. Smith, P.L.S. and Clark E. Kinney, L.S.I.T.