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The Turkey Creek Project is located primarily along I-35 and Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri, in a highly traveled business corridor. Floods typically are experienced every 3 to 5 years. More than $5 million in annual benefits will be achieved through channel widening, levee construction, tunnel modifications and hillside interceptors.
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Sponsors
StakeholdersBoulevard Drive-In TheaterCAM-DEX Security Corp.Carthage Marble Corp.Central Industrial District Association (CIDA)CFM distributorsCity of Kansas City, MissouriDST RealtyKansas City Industrial Council (KCIC)Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT)(continued)
The second construction contract was completed by the Unified Government and Kansas City, Missouri, as a tunnel modification contract. This was done to insure that the increased flows allowed through the newly opened channel can be safely carried from Turkey Creek to the Kansas River without resulting in unintended damages in the project area. Construction awarded in FY06 for the remaining tunnel work should be completed in early 2009.
The first construction contract was completed along with the work being undertaken by the Kansas DOT as part of the I-35 modifications. The channel along this portion of the highway work was accomplished in accordance with the approved Corps of Engineers plans. The excavated material was used as embankment.
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