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Seabee OICC Awards Five Key Contracts in Iraq
Story Number: NNS040701-05
Release Date: 7/1/2004 10:38:00 AM
By Lt. Cmdr. William H. Klepac, Commander, 1st Naval Construction Division Public Affairs
FALLUJAH, Iraq (NNS) -- The First Marine Expeditionary Force Engineer Group (I MEG) Officer In Charge of Construction (OICC) awarded four road-paving and improvement contracts June 15, and a bridge repair contract two days later.
The contracts, with a combined total value of $518,420, were awarded in the Al Anbar province of Iraq.
The first road contract, valued at more than $150,000, included grading, drainage improvements and asphalt paving for a two-and-a-half-kilometer section of Al Niamiya Road south of Fallujah, and paving of a half-kilometer section of Albari Mosque Road in the Al Husay area southwest of Fallujah. The second road contract, valued at almost $120,000, included grading and paving a two-kilometer section of Al Boalwan Road and a half-kilometer section of Al Borashid Road on the outskirts of Fallujah.
“These projects may seem small, but they are important because they provide good roads to be used by farmers and villagers on the outskirts of the city,” said Ahmed Naiman Turki, road and bridge department manager for Fallujah.
The third road contract, valued at about $115,000, included grading and paving two kilometers of Al Secher Road, connecting North Fallujah with Highway 1. The fourth road contract included grading and paving a two-kilometer section of Al Zaghareet Road northwest of Fallujah.
The bridge repair contract involves replacing several pontoons, structural steel beams and bridge decking for the Al Ameriyah floating-pontoon bridge. The bridge is a key area crossing and was damaged by saboteurs in April.
“Repairing the damaged pontoon bridge is a very important project for the people of Ameriyah and the other villages south of Fallujah, because it is the only point to cross the Euphrates within 10 kilometers of Al Ameriyah,” commented Engineer Khayri Muhi Abdullah, the Al Anbar director for roads and bridges.
All five of these contracts are part of a continuous and growing effort by I MEG and OICC to help the Iraqi people in and around Fallujah improve their infrastructure, and become self-sufficient as they work toward a prosperous future.
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