r/SantaFe • u/505omatic • 1d ago
New Almost $15 Million River Restoration Project is Washing Away Already
https://www.505omatic.com/new-almost-15-million-river-restoration-project-is-washing-away-already/6
u/piedra96 1d ago
Standard practice on these projects is for the engineer to supervise construction to ensure the design is built to spec. I wonder why that didn’t happen here.
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u/Von_Bernkastel 1d ago
I'm sure most of that money went into the contractors pocket and that's why its all shoddy now.
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u/bean_enthusiast_ 1d ago
AECOM is just shit. Corner-cutting on materials is a cost-saving measure to keep their team from getting laid off, which upper management loves to do aggressively when their stock is down.
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u/Same_Active8451 1d ago
I guess nice way to shoot further funding for other projects in the foot by telling a classic story of santa fe half-assery with a bad construction project and then being like "hey you can vote on more like this." Not like I have great confidence in this town in any contractor ever doing more than the bare minimum at an insanely inflated cost, but im sure there's some valuable projects in the works that DO deserve funding. It's more of an oversight issue, so let's try to get better people in place to look over these plans before grewnlighting them eh?
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u/turkeychicken 13h ago
Anyone who walked along the trail during the "restoration" in the river could tell how half assed it was. stacking basketball sized rocks on top of each other, with no reinforcement or stabilization, along a river bank looked like a horrible idea. It's no wonder that a little bit of water is already washing it all away.
The stuff up a little bit, between the frenchy's bridge and the Ricardo Rd bridge was done much much better. Whichever contractor did that should have done this segment too.
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u/DBSpain 1d ago edited 1d ago
Really poor work by contractors. I have built rock walls by hand with bigger rocks at my home. I can’t image those rocks along a river flood zone .