Highway & Road

Location: Frederick, Maryland

Project Description:

• Fox Frederick team is the prime consultant for the design and construction administration of the 1.2 mile Central Section of Monocacy Boulevard located within the corporate limits of Frederick, Maryland. As the prime consultant, Fox is responsible for oversight of a team of sub-consultants consisting of structural, geotechnical, traffic, environmental permitting and cultural resources consultants as well as a construction estimator.

• Monocacy Boulevard is a City of Frederick major arterial roadway that, once completed, will serve as an outer by-pass around the City of Frederick. The road design consists of an 80′ wide right-of-way with a 4-lane roadbed and median. The project is designed to meet City of Frederick, Maryland State Highway Administration, AASHTO and MUTCD design guidelines, standards and specifications.

• The design includes two significant stream crossings for Carroll Creek and the Monocacy River. The Carroll Creek crossing is proposed as a multi-cell pre-cast concrete culvert/bridge structure approximately 300 feet long designed to span the existing stream channel limiting environmental impacts. The Monocacy River crossing will be a standard steel highway bridge spanning approximately 600 feet supported by mid-stream concrete piers. Both stream crossings require MDE and ACOE permitting.
• In addition to the roadway design Fox is directly responsible for design of three (3) stormwater management facilities, roadway plans and profiles, geometrics, signage and striping, temporary traffic control, storm drain, sanitary sewer and water design, sediment control, environmental permitting plans and a FEMA Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR) for the proposed roadway.

Through the years, Fox has gained extensive experience in design and permitting services for rail road roadway and utility bore crossings as well as for the construction of railroad spurs to serve industrial manufacturing clientele. Those permits have been obtained from several different railroad companies including but not limited to CSX, Western Maryland Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad and Norfolk Southern Railroad. Below please find a list of past projects and types of permits obtained.

Carriage Hill Residential, Washington County, Maryland:

• At Grade Roadway crossing
• 36″ Bore Casing for 8″ Sewer & 4″ Force Main
• 24″ Bore Casing for 16″ Waterline

Fox Croft Village – South, Martinsburg, West Virginia:

• 48″ Bore Casing for 12″ Waterline Crossing

Foxleigh Meadows Residential, Hagerstown, Maryland:

• 48″ Bore Casing for 12″ Water Main

Interstate Industrial Park, Washington County, Maryland:

• 36″ Bore Casing for Sewer Main

Massey Boulevard, Washington County, Maryland:

• New Arterial 4-Lane Divided Roadway Crossing

I-70 / 81 Industrial Park, Washington County, Maryland:

• Railroad Spur

Antietam Paper Company, Washington County, Maryland:

• Railroad Spur

Brookfield Subdivision, Berkeley County, West Virginia:

• Bore Casing for 8″ Sewer Main

Location: Emmitsburg, Maryland

Project Description:

• Fox Frederick team prepared complete contract documents ready for advertisement for the reconstruction of Creamery Road in the corporate limits of Emmitsburg, Maryland in Frederick County.

• The project limits extended from Maryland Route 140, (East Main Street), to U.S. Route 15, a distance of approximately 2,700 feet. Existing Creamery Road was, generally, two lanes with no shoulder. The northern end of the roadway principally serves an elementary school, small factory and several residences. Creamery Road is classified as a collector road on the Frederick County Comprehensive Plan a Traffic projection of 200 vehicles per day with ten percent trucks was used to design the pavement section.

• The proposed improvement to Creamery Road consisted of removing the existing pavement, widening the roadway to 24 feet and the relocation of approximately 1,000 feet of roadway in order to improve the operating characteristics of the facility. Relocation of the roadway required the construction of multiple large corrugated metal pipe arch structures at each of two locations. In addition, this realignment resulted in localized cuts of as much as eight (8) feet in height and fills of three (3) feet or more.

Site Considerations:

• The desire of the Town of Emmitsburg to reconstruct Creamery Road from East Main Street to U.S. Route 15, resulted in the preparation of complete contract documents, ready for advertisement, including plans, specifications and estimates. The most difficult design challenge of this project was to construct multiple corrugated metal pipe arch structure at each of two locations.
• The first location was Limit Creek a tributary of Flat Run, and the second location was a tributary of Limit Creek. In both cases, since these were flowing streams, temporary diversion channels were created using sandbag diversions and dewatering basins so that the new culverts could be constructed “in the dry”. With three culverts at Limit Creek, the middle culvert was constructed at an elevation one foot lower than the outer culverts to allow siltation for improved fish passage. Maryland Department of Environment and U.S. Corps of Engineer permits were obtained for all stream and floodplain construction.

Location: Halfway, Maryland – completed by Fox Hagerstown team.

Project Description:

• Massey Boulevard was constructed in conjunction with the 440,000 square foot Crosspoint Shopping Center and the Valley Mall expansion projects. Design of this super elevated roadway included obtaining a railroad crossing permit from CSX and intersection design for its connections to US Route 11 and to Cole Road. This project included getting approvals for extensive utility relocations and preparation of related easement/right-of-way documents. Also included was design of 400 L.F. of concrete retaining wall incorporating guard rail in order to avoid impacts to the adjoining Virginia Avenue Church of God property.