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9 ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT <br /> <br />TABLE 9.4.8d <br />Specifications of Vehicles and Equipment Used Dunng Typical Project Construction Activities <br />MWMC Facilities Plan, Eugene-Springfield <br /> <br /> Vehicle/ Approximate <br /> Equipment Use/Location GVW (pounds) Capacity Nature of Trips <br /> <br />Backhoe Digging trenches -- N/A Brought once to site; at site for <br /> duration of construction <br /> <br />Hydraulic Loading and 80,000 + bb'A Brought once to site; at site for <br />forklifts unloading equipment duration of ccmstruction <br /> <br />Note: Materials will be transported to the site on a schedule that wilJ be determined at a ~ater date based on <br />construction contracts and project needs. <br /> <br />As the primary access route to the site, Belfline Highway and River Avenue will likely <br />experience the greatest traffic impacts from construct/on vehicles and workforce transport. <br />As previously noted, most construction traffic is expected to enter and leave the site via the <br />Beltline/River Avenue on and off ramps. Conshnaction traffic could also enter the site via <br />the Beltline/River Road/River Avenue interchange. Therefore, the Beltline/River <br />Road/River Avenue area could also experience traffic impacts from the construction <br />vehicles and workforce transport. <br /> <br />As noted above, trucks will be used to dehver construction equipment and materials. Some <br />of these trucks will have a GVW of the legal load limit of 80,000 pounds. Heavy equipment <br />will be transported to the project site using a semi-truck and lowboy transporter designed <br />for loads (i.e., axles). The vehicles would be D8 and D9 <br /> heavy <br /> rnultiple <br /> largest <br /> likely <br />bulldozers weighing approxhnately 100,000 and 400,000 pounds, respectively. These <br />vehicles exceed the legal load limit and would require a permit. <br /> <br /> Cranes would be required to install new equipment at the WPCF. Cranes would be within <br /> the legal load lindt of 80,000 GVW. They would be brought in on six axles with robber tires <br /> and would drive on the highway. Movement of the heavy equipment transporters will have <br /> a short-term impact on traffic along the Beltline Highway and other roadways used along <br /> the transporter route. <br /> <br /> Construction Accidents <br /> Although the additional vehicular and construction traffic attributable to the project could <br /> increase the risk of accidents, it is anticipated that the overall accident rate or pattern would <br /> be similar to ex~sting conditions. <br /> <br /> Mitigation <br /> Traffic control would be written into contract specifications, which would address traffic <br /> safety. Flaggers would be used for equipment transporter access and turn-around on an as- <br /> needed basis. <br /> <br /> 9.4.9 Cuitura Resources <br /> According to the Eugene Cultural Resource Inventory Program (Eugene Planning and <br /> Development Department, 2003), the River Road area in Eugene has not been surveyed for <br /> historical resources. However, the MWMC project site is highly disturbed from previous <br /> <br /> klWMC_9.0_REV14.DOC 9-t7 <br /> <br /> <br />