Tahoe City boat ramp repairs delayed
The Lake Forest boat ramp replacement project keeps getting more expensive and longer to complete.
When Tahoe City Public Utility District went out to bid on the project in February 2014 it was supposed to cost a little more a half million dollars and be finished in December that year.
Now the price tag is more than $1 million and sometime in May is when what is usually a year-round ramp will reopen.
The latest problem is that precast concrete panels don’t meet TCPUD or state specifications. Those are now being replaced.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
I thought this was supposed to be a maintenance dredging project not a replacement project.
New specifications and rules always increase expense, and are often not necessary.
Agencies are power hungry and will always make new rules. All you have to say is Public Safety and it gets approved no matter what. Nobody wants to b blamed or seen as against safety, even if it means not doing a project.
We need sunset rules on most of the rules made so they can be amended or dispensed with on a regular basis to ensure some sense of reality