Tezak Heavy Equipment

Owner: United States Air Force Academy
Location: Colorado Springs, CO (USAFA)
General Contractor: Toltest, Inc.
Project Superintendent: Jody Lazor, Tezak Heavy Equipment
Construction Start Date: November 2008

Job Background: "Portions of the Monument Branch middle tributary, and Elkhorn Creek on the United States Air Force Academy are being adversely affected by erosion and sedimentation caused by increased stormwater runoff from off-base development. Serious channel down-cutting and head-cutting is degrading wetland and riparian habitats, fragmenting the landscape, exposing underground utilities, and impacting the habitat of a Federally Protected Species (Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse). In support of the mission, stream restoration engineering plans that incorporate more natural features and construction materials have been developed with the objectives of halting and repairing the channel degradation and promoting the restoration of wildlife habitats and aquatic resources." Tezak Heavy Equipment has been contracted by Toltest, Inc. to perform all of the civil work for the east boundary erosion control project.

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Owner: Town of Minturn, CO
Engineering Firm: Ecological Resource Consultants, Inc.
Project Foreman: Jesse Ellis, Tezak Heavy Equipment

Job Description: This project is located in the town of Minturn, CO. This project was made possible by the Natural Resource Damage Funds. It consists of 7,750 Linear Feet of restoration of the Eagle River. The work consists of the following: INSTREAM IPROVEMENTS: 10,400 CY's of Channel Regrading, 16 Each Riffle/Pool/Glide Sequences, 3,000 Tons of Boulders, REVEGETATION: 48,396 Each Wetland/Riparian Plugs, 3,039 5-Gallon Shrubs, 108,900 SF of Terrace and Slope Seeding, 40 Each 8-Foot Spruce Trees, 40 Each 12-Fott Spruce Trees, 30 Each 2.5-Inch Narrowleaf Cottonwoods, 12,100 SY of Erosion Control Blanket.

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Engineering Firm: Ecological Resource Consultants, Inc.

Project Foreman: Jesse Ellis, Tezak Heavy Equipment

Job Description: This project is located south of Fairplay, CO on HWY 9 @ Buffalo Peaks Ranch. This project consists of approximately 9,000 LF of stream channel restoration for trout habitat and stream bank stabilization.

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Owner: City of Colorado Springs
Project Engineer: Steve Jacobsen, P.E., City of Colorado Springs
Tezak Superintendent: Jody Lazor

This project consists of the following work: Earthwork Excavation, 3 NewDrop Boulder Structures (Grouted), Concrete Cut-off Walls, Armoring Slopes with Rip Rap, Seeding, Mulching, Erosion Control Blanket, Storm Sewer Pipe, and Manholes. Cottonwood Creek is located in Colorado Springs between Union Boulevard and Rangewood Street. Phase I Construction of Cottonwood Creek was completed in May of 2006. Phase II Construction of Cottonwood Creek was completed in March of 2007. Cottonwood Creek Phase 3 will tie-in Phase I and Phase II Construction. Phase 3 of Cottonwood Creek was completed in August of 2008.

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Owner: Pioneer Natural Resources
Superintendent: Danny Tezak, President
Foreman: Tae Hillyer

This Project is located on HWY 12, eleven miles west of Trinidad in Las Animas County. This project will consist of rock fall mitigation and installation of new Guardrail Type 7.

Owner: Colorado Department of Transportation, Region 3- Montrose
Project Manager: Dave Boronda, CDOT
Construction Schedule: August of 2008 Through May of 2009

Project Description:
This project is located on SH 114 near the intersection at US 50 and extending approximately 0.15 miles southerly. The work will consist of the following: Bridge replacement which includes clearing and grubbing, embankment material, seeding and mulching, aggregate base course, hot mix asphalt, concrete class D (Box Culvert), guardrail, bridge rail, striping, and construction traffic control.

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Owner: Colorado Department of Transportation, Region 3
CDOT Project No. HPP 0241-045
Project Engineer: Clinton Moyer, P.E. CDOT
General Superintendent: Troy W. Adair (Tezak Heavy Equipment)
Construction Schedule: March 24, 2008 Through October 10, 2008

Project Description:
This project is located on State HWY 24, from approximate mile marker 169.0 to mile marker 174.1 in Lake County, just north of the Town of Leadville, CO. The project consists of shoulder and curve widening, minor reconstruct and resurfacing including HMA, HBP reclamation, aggregate base course, removal and installation of guardrail, unclassified excavation, seeding, signing, striping, construction traffic management, removal of an existing structural plate pipe, and the construction of a new Con-Span Bridge System. CDOT, Region 3 has partnered with Tezak Heavy Equipment and accepted a Valued Engineering Proposal, which will replace the proposed construction of a concrete box culvert with a new innovative Con-Span Bridge Design System. This new pre-cast bridge system that will be provided by Contech Bridge Solutions, Inc. will not only minimize the construction time, but it will also minimize the environmental impact by not having to divert the East Fork Arkansas River for the construction of this new bridge system.

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Owner: United States Air Force Academy
Location: Colorado Springs, CO (AFA)
Construction Schedule: January of 2008 Through March of 2008
General Contractor: AMEC
Project Manager: Glen Robinson, (AMEC)
Tezak Heavy Equipment Superintendent: Troy W. Adair
Tezak Heavy Equipment Foreman: Jesse Ellis

This project is located in Colorado Springs inside the United States Air Force Academy. "Several streams contributing to Monument Creek are being adversely impacted by erosion and sedimentation caused by increased stormwater runoff from off-base private developments. Serious stream down-cutting is degrading wetland and riparian habitats, fragmenting the landscape, exposing underground utilities, threatining airfield safety, and impacting populations of Federal (Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse) and state-listed (Rocky Mountain Cinquefoil) endangered species. Natural stream restoration projects are planned to stop the channel degradation and restore wildlife habitat resources, but damages are occuring at a pace that requires immediate stabilization of high erosion areas to prevent further impacts and reduce future restoration costs." AMEC has awarded Tezak Heavy Equipment the following construction phases to stop further degredation of the tributary creeks until permanent restoration projects can be implemented.

Phase I: Eastern Tributaries Stream Channel Stabilzation
Phase II: Black Forest Creek Restoration

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Engineering Firm: Ecological Resource Consultants, Inc.

Superintendent: Danny Tezak, President

Foreman: Jesse Ellis

Job Description: This project is on a private ranch located approximately 15 miles north of Gunnison, CO. This project consists of the following work: Construction of new wetlands, construction of a 58,000 SF and a 50,000 SF fish habitat ponds, and construction of approx. 3500 LF of a new fish habitat channel with multiple rip rap riffle pools.

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Owner: DCS Development
Superintendent: Troy W. Adair

Cranberry Park Subdivision is located in Canon City. This subdivision project started in early October of 2007 and was completed in June of 2008. We have been contracted by D.C.S Development & Construction, LLC to perform the following work: Earthwork, Utilities, Asphalt Paving, Curb and Gutter, and Concrete Sidewalk. This new subdivision will house maintenance free luxury townhomes.