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Work on wind turbine projects to begin

Atlantic News Telegraph|Laura Bacon|February 1, 2008
IowaGeneral

Cass County residents might start seeing large trucks passing through the area as work on MidAmerican owned wind turbines begins in the Cass and Adair County areas. Cass County Engineer Charles Marker told the Cass County Supervisors on Thursday that six MidAmerican owned turbines would be going up in Cass County, and 76 in Adair County. ...The supervisors discussed whether or not the county roads would be able to handle the heavy loads, and Marker said he thought most Cass County roads would be fine. "But we will have to look at each bridge along the route," he said, after exact routes were established.


Cass County residents might start seeing large trucks passing through the area as work on MidAmerican owned wind turbines begins in the Cass and Adair County areas.

Cass County Engineer Charles Marker told the Cass County Supervisors on Thursday that six MidAmerican owned turbines would be going up in Cass County, and 76 in Adair County.

He said he had received the first request for oversize/overweight limit permits for large vehicles which would "be coming down G30" in the Anita and Adair area. The trucks would be hauling equipment to do borings under roads near where the turbines will be located. He said those trucks would run about 60,000 pounds, but said additional, larger trucks would eventually be coming through as well.

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Cass County residents might start seeing large trucks passing through the area as work on MidAmerican owned wind turbines begins in the Cass and Adair County areas.

Cass County Engineer Charles Marker told the Cass County Supervisors on Thursday that six MidAmerican owned turbines would be going up in Cass County, and 76 in Adair County.

He said he had received the first request for oversize/overweight limit permits for large vehicles which would "be coming down G30" in the Anita and Adair area. The trucks would be hauling equipment to do borings under roads near where the turbines will be located. He said those trucks would run about 60,000 pounds, but said additional, larger trucks would eventually be coming through as well.

When it came time to pour the concrete pads for the turbines, Marker said 10-15 concrete trucks per pad would be needed, and large semis would be used to bring in turbine parts like blades and turbines.

He said over 140 yards of concrete would be used for the base of each turbine, but noted it was still too cold to put in that concrete.

The supervisors discussed whether or not the county roads would be able to handle the heavy loads, and Marker said he thought most Cass County roads would be fine.

"But we will have to look at each bridge along the route," he said, after exact routes were established.

He said some of the smaller roads the company would be traveling in Adair County might need to be upgraded, and access roads to the turbine locations would have to be built. He said the expense for those kinds of upgrades and improvements would be covered by the company installing the turbines.

He said the company wanted to get started as soon as possible.

Marker splits his time between Cass and Adair counties working as county engineer, and said he had meet with project officials "in Adair County last week," adding those officials had talked about routing for borings. More conversations and planning related to routing would be happening in the next two to three weeks.

"We're seeing it start up," he said, adding that he would be working with company officials to look at routing.

"It can be quite a logistics problem," he said, noting some of the trucks would be dual steering semis, and that in some locations power poles might have to be moved and road corners adjusted.


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