Posted on 02/04/2020 8:40:24 PM PST by BeauBo
115 miles completed
224 miles under construction
237 miles in pre-construction
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Just saw that the Government (IBWC) said that they needed time to complete their modeling.
The judge granted a 60 day extension. The three parties come back to court on 8 April.
The Mcallen Monitor reports: "If the IBWC determines the riverside wall will have no substantial impact on the Rio Grande, the government has indicated it will dismiss the lawsuit. However, court records show the two sides estimate discovery could stretch through the end of September should the lawsuit continue."
No doubt the wall will be finished by April there. It should be wrapping up soon. 2.5 miles were done on 30 January. Only 3 to 3.5 are going in there. Besides the bollards, they have a full concrete patrol road going in (as well as lights cameras and alarms). I'd guess that they will pour the road on the way out, after the bollards are done, and the utilities laid in.
“Of course recognizing new miles of fence is not just a leftist trick. To obscure such simple truths is an insult to taxpayers.”
Recognizing a new mile of fence as new is a simple truth, even if something ineffective had to be demolished prior to constructing it.
To say it is not new (despite it being new construction with all new materials, dramatically better in every respect), is actually not a truth.
Every newly constructed mile, is a new mile.
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No use trying to wiggle around common usage in the English language.
Fisher Industries have done some amazing work there. Inspite of constant delays from prairie fairies and the likes.
Bttt.
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Once again your knowledge and information posted here at FR is tremendous. Thanks for the update.
We are all on the same side here.
I think you will be pleased through this year, if you want to see Wall System in totally new parts of the border.
There was a long period of analysis, planning and preparation (careful aiming before firing) - most of the first two years.
Now however, we are the Full Scale Deployment Phase of the Program. President Trump came through with the big money bomb when the Program needed it (the FY 2019 budget), after all the needed tradeoff and design analyses, route planning, prioritization, land acquisition and legal challenges were complete; and the required concurrences had been received. This was accomplished with head-spinning speed, compared to a normal Government construction Program, of even a much smaller scale. A ten year time frame would have been considered a high priority effort (and that is how the the Republican Congress budgeted for it, in the Baseline Budget). In terms of size, speed, cost, or strength; the Trump Wall Program is exceptional as compared to other Wall efforts, Globally or historically. No other non-Military (non-wartime) effort comes close.
Also, we have just entered the part of the deployment, where the totally new segments have come up on the priority list. Their construction is now underway, and additional crews will continue to join the effort every few weeks.
Over 100 miles totally new miles in the Rio Grande Valley have been awarded on contract, and those contracts are now entering construction. The really big one (65 miles - actually composed of three smaller contracts, with a Prime Contractor in the lead) was scheduled to start this month (I have not heard of a groundbreaking yet).
I expect that several of these RGV contracts will require multiple crews to meet their schedules (pretty much all of it is to be finished this year). So in a few more more months, the rate of new miles per week will be cranking, just in the RGV - about two miles per week there. We will probably have a dozen or more crews working concurrently on new miles in the RGV alone, later this year.
52 totally new miles North of Laredo has already been identified and funded with last year’s Military Construction funds, which were finally freed up by the courts just a few weeks ago. It should be awarded and start construction this year as well. The 2020 appropriations is earmarked for 60-70 more totally new miles through Laredo and South to Falcon Lake. That also should be awarded and under construction this year. The $7.2 billion from this year’s Military budget should fund at least 150 more totally new miles.
So I expect about 400 totally new miles to be under construction (or complete) by the end of the year, and that the completion rate for just those totally new miles will be running about five miles per week.
We are off to the races now. It is going to be fun to watch.
Beyond just watching, the real effects of that new Wall System will start mounting up. Everywhere it goes in (”new’ or “replacement”), it is designed with all the features needed to bring that particular stretch of the border under the full operational control of the Border Patrol. Those floodgates will be firmly closed (San Diego is now), one after another. Local communities will see their crime rates go down, and their property values go up, but Nation-wide effects are going to start mounting as well.
Outstanding info. Thanks for sharing!
An informative article summarizing the status of the whole Wall Program was just published in recent hours: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3814332/posts
Thanks!
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