Newberg-Dundee Bypass ODOT Complete Lack of Management of Costs and Community Care

Meet our new neighbor thanks to the Dundee Newberg Bypass project - an open sewer manhole pumping sewage with a 24/7 diesel generator that resonates within our home.  And of course they start it up on a Friday and scamper off to their homes likely because they knew I'd be beating on the construction trailer door.  Sure enough, no one onsite  to complain at.

We're not the first to be shown this inconsideration.

There's the couple down the road whose property has been split in two, and ODOT says they'll have no access to the back half, but isn't paying them for it.

At the April 24 Dundee budget committee, meeting one of the city staffers mentioned that they'd found a possible solution to not having to bore and jack a utility under the fill which would potentially save ODOT hundreds of thousands and ODOT hadn't seemed interested.  That's our tax dollars!  Remember teachers aren't being paid enough and we still have that sort of attitude at the state.

Then there's the couple that had to threaten to sue before ODOT would pay them enough to live in a home similar to the one that was being condemned for the project.  He had a house with a separate workshop and ODOT wanted to pay enough for an apartment.  That conflict garnered a cable TV news story. Here's the news piece -



This is on top of what my wife and I see daily demonstrated in front of the house.  We've seen an accident at the intersection when a construction dump truck backed into a local driving by.  We've seen one of the workers take out the neighbors cat by stomping on the accelerator to make sure he got it.  After numerous complaints about safety ODOT's never said a thing about what they're doing to control it, they only say they hope Phase 2 will be better.

I've been a project engineer on-site for the managing firm for two large civil projects, the Reno ReTRAC and the Hokuli'a Subdivision.  I can say from experience, this is very poor project management.