Carl High

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  www.homertribune.com/article.php?aid=1462 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/4/2007    Last Visited: 4/4/2007  

  Carl High, Regional Supervisor for the DOT, said Homer's roads are particularly difficult to maintain due to "gooey, supersaturated soils," and dealing with the cracks in the new pavement on Diamond Ridge is a priority. "We've got our best minds working on that," High said, adding that load limits applied by early next week should lessen the cracking during breakup season.

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  www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/081007/letters_3095.sh - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/10/2007    Last Visited: 8/19/2007  

  Wagoner in his efforts in ensuring that the residents would have a community meeting with Carl High, Peninsula District superintendent for the Alaska DOT, and Mike Penrod, project manager for Jones Road Rehabilitation.

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  Homer News Online Road drives safety debate 11/25/04 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/25/2004    Last Visited: 11/26/2004  

  Held at the Anchor Point Senior Citizens Center on Nov. 10, the meeting brought about 28 North Fork residents together with Carl High of the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities and Rep.
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  High told the gathering that a rough estimate for all engineering, preliminary design work, rebuilding and paving the road could cost roughly $1 million a mile.But such a project has several bureaucratic hoops to jump through.
  
  To get there, a North Fork Road project would have to be added to the State Transportation Improvement Plan (STIP) list.The unpaved section from Mile 8.5 to Mile 17 currently sits on a DOT "needs list," a kind of wish list that is a precursor to the STIP list.
  
  A reconstruction and paving project had been on the STIP list in 2001-03 with a score of 88.8 points, but did not progress from there, High said.To be considered for the STIP list now, projects need a minimum of 115 points, he said.

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  Homer News Online Snow, sleet, rain, wind hits... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/17/2005    Last Visited: 2/18/2005  

  Carl High, superintendent of the peninsula district for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, said the entire peninsula system had been hit hard, with some areas reporting in excess of a foot of snow.High said conditions were somewhat worse in the eastern side of the peninsula, but road crews also were seeing a lot of snow north of Sterling and in the Brown's Lake area.
  
  High mentioned conditions on the Homer Spit, saying at around 3:30 p.m. last Thursday , about an hour before high tide , that the department was going to attempt to keep the roadway open.
  
  "We're going to let people know of the conditions so they can be aware," he said.
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  High of DOT said the tide and waves had wiped out about a third of the airport runway at Nanwalek.

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  Homer News OnlineInadequate Nanwalek runway a... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/20/2004    Last Visited: 5/21/2004  

  DOT&PF contracts out maintenance, such as snow removal, and through the Homer office does other routine maintenance, said Carl High, transportation maintenance supervisor for the Kenai Peninsula.High said in about 90 days the state will start work on repairing the strip.Fill from a nearby material site will be put on the strip to take care of the loose beach gravel.The strip will be leveled off to take out a dip in the middle caused by storm damage, and straightened out.High said a public notice will be posted soon for comments on the environmental impacts of using fill from the nearby site.
  
  "We'll fix it as best we can," High said.
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  A repair of the raised manhole cover is also planned, High said, with fill to be placed around it.
  
  The planned repairs are paid for out of a supplemental appropriation and not from the general maintenance fund.High said DOT&PF has sufficient funds to do routine maintenance.

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  Kenai Peninsula Online - Alaska Newspaper - - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/12/2005    Last Visited: 2/12/2005  

  Carl High, superintendent of the peninsula district for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, said the entire peninsula system had been hit hard, with some areas reporting in excess of a foot of snow.High said conditions were somewhat worse in the eastern side of the peninsula, but road crews also were seeing a lot of snow north of Sterling and in the Brown's Lake area.
  
  High mentioned conditions on the Homer Spit, saying at around 3:30 p.m. , about an hour before high tide , that the department was going to attempt to keep the roadway open.
  
  "We're going to let people know of the conditions so they can be aware," he said.
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  High of DOT said the tide and waves had wiped out about a third of the airport runway at Nanwalek.
  
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  Kenai Peninsula Online - Alaska Newspaper - - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/7/2005    Last Visited: 1/7/2005  

  Carl High, Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities district superintendent, said Monday that if there was rain falling on ice and slush, it could bring out the potholes.
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  Wednesday, High said after 36 straight hours of patching, highway crews were just getting caught up on filling the potholes.
  
  "Some of them were so big we had to pre-fill with D-1 (a graded sand and gravel mixture) before putting down the hardened cold mix on top.The biggest holes were three feet wide and approaching 10 or 12 feet long," he said.
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  High and Gabriel said the staff was stretched fairly thin, and work like this week's doesn't come around often.
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  "Just the presence of the KPD made a tremendous help in letting us work," High said.

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  Kenai Peninsula Online - Alaska Newspaper - - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/4/2005    Last Visited: 1/4/2005  

  Carl High, Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities district superintendent, said the conditions have caused challenges.
  
  "It's an uphill battle out there.All the rain on top of this slush causes some problems.This could really bring out the potholes," he said.
  
  High said this temperate season has been stressful on the Kenai Spur Highway.
  
  "We've had the Spur on our wish list for a couple of years.It could use something, even if it's just a basic overlay.Until then, we'll have to make do," he said.
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  Carl High said the DOT expenditures are up slightly this season.
  
  "Overtime is slightly above average as well as the contracting we have done.Year to date, we've gone through a lot more sand than usual.Our guys are out there patching potholes in their overtime."High said road maintenance personnel use a blend of asphalt and binder called "cold mix" to patch potholes.
  
  "We are way ahead of what we normally use in cold mix," he said.
  
  High said that with the roads being the way they are, people need to slow down and use some common sense.

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  Kenai Peninsula Online - Alaska Newspaper - - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/18/2004    Last Visited: 11/18/2004  

  Held at the Anchor Point Senior Citizens Center on Nov. 10, the meeting brought about 28 North Fork residents together with Carl High of the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities and Rep.
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  High told the gathering that a rough estimate for all engineering, preliminary design work, rebuilding and paving the road could cost roughly $1 million a mile.But such a project has several bureaucratic hoops to jump through.
  
  To get there, a North Fork Road project would have to be added to the State Transportation Improvement Plan (STIP) list.The unpaved section from Mile 8.5 to Mile 17 currently sits on a DOT "needs list," a kind of wish list that is a precursor to the STIP list.
  
  A reconstruction and paving project had been on the STIP list in 2001-03 with a score of 88.8 points, but did not progress from there, according to High.To be considered for the STIP list now, project needs a minimum of 115 points, he said.

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  Kenai Peninsula Online - Alaska Newspaper - - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/20/2004    Last Visited: 9/20/2004  

  I also want to thank Carl High (DOT superintendent), Brian Gabriel (DOT foreman), Pete Goggia, Julie Wehrli, Ron Russell, Dr. Nels Anderson (for the "Scout Van") and my parents for helping so much.

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