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RESOLUTION R-1516-100: A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, APPROVING A MODIFICATION TO THE STREAM BANKS ALONG BROOKHAVEN CREEK FOR THE PROPOSED MAIN STREET BRIDGE
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BACKGROUND: The existing West Main Street Bridge was constructed in 1972. This bridge is identified in the Storm Water Master Plan as being "hydraulically deficient". It is unable to convey a ten-year (10%) storm. This means that the flow of storm water in Brookhaven Creek overtops Main Street during a rainfall of two and a half inches in an hour. This condition likely caused the bridge to sustain serious damage in the flood of August 19, 2007. City crews made temporary emergency repairs at that time to keep the bridge in service. At a later date additional repairs were required after a subsequent storm event caused a hole to form under the pavement.
On January 27, 2009, the Norman City Council approved programming Resolution No. R-0809-96 requesting federal funds to replace the bridge and roadway approaches on West Main Street over Brookhaven Creek, located 1/2 mile west of 36th Avenue West. On August 11, 2009, City Council approved contract K-0910-56 with Garver, LLC for the preliminary design of this project. On June 11, 2010, Council approved Amendment No. 1 with Garver, L.L.C. for the final design of this project. On December 31, 2012, Council approved Amendment No. 2 with Garver, L.L.C. modifying the design of the creek improvements which reduced the number of mobile home relocations from nine to two in the Canadian Shores Mobile Home Park that is located on the west bank of the creek.
On August 28, 2012, Norman voters approved a Bond Issue for eight major transportation/storm water projects throughout Norman in the amount of $42.5 million dollars. The Main Street Bridge Project is one of those eight infrastructure projects. The total estimated cost of the project is $5,545,385 of which federal funds will pay $3,897,094 or 70.2%. Federal ...
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