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Meadow Valley Contractors has been busy at work on the $55.4 million western segments of the 53 mile Las Vegas Beltway. Otherwise known as Interstate 215, the total cost of the beltway will run $1.2 billion. An initial facility circling the Las Vegas valley should be in place by 2003.
This marks the fifth beltway contract that Meadow Valley has landed, including sections 3, 3A, 4 and 4A of the southern beltway. Upon completion of the western sections, the company will have performed $144.7 million worth of beltway work. Today, seven miles of beltway in Henderson, from Interstate 15 to Pecos Road, is finished and fully functional.
The western beltway entails four sections, 7A, 7B, 8 and 9, bid under one contract. Started on November 30 last year, the project requires two portions of major flood control channels known as the lower Red Rock Channel from Hualapai Way to Dewey Drive (approximately 2.8 miles of concrete channels and box culvert), portions of the Diamond Channel from Gagnier Street to Rainbow Boulevard (approximately 1.75 miles of concrete channels and box culvert), plus 1.8 miles of half freeway section, 2.5 miles of frontage roads, 2 miles worth of grading and a 450-foot bridge carrying Fort Apache over the freeway. Anticipated completion is January 2000. "In order, to address escalating traffic needs, particularly in the northwest, an accelerated plan to construct an initial roadway system has been adopted," says Clark...