ROCKY BRANCH PARK IMPROVEMENTS – CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL BELMONT EXTENSION
Project Title: ROCKY BRANCH PARK IMPROVEMENTS – CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL BELMONT EXTENSION
Project Description: Rocky Branch Park (RBP) is located 12 miles west of Uptown Charlotte at 103 Sacco Street in Belmont, North Carolina. Surrounded by mostly working class residential neighborhoods and quiet streets, RBP is a relatively undeveloped urban greenspace within walking distance to public schools, parks, homes and Belmont’s lively Main Street, a mere mile away.
Totaling approximately 41 acres, the park is comprised of wooded, rolling terrain with its namesake stream, Rocky Branch, meandering through the property from east to west. This small urban tributary of the South Fork Catawba River drains a highly developed urban landscape and features a trickling boulder-strewn stream bed.
The Carolina Thread Trail is the first of a multi-phased plan outlined in the Rocky Branch Trail Enhancement Plan. This once conceptual multi-use trail corridor is now fully designed at ground-level and known as the Carolina Thread Trail (CTT) Belmont Extension. The design document is included in Attachment A. Due to the unique nature of the multi-use trail’s characteristics, specifications, scope and scale, this document details the CTT Belmont Extension as a stand-alone project defined as Phase 1.1. Phase 1.2 also contained in the attached design document is known as the CTT Cramerton Extension and is not included in this bid.
The CTT Belmont Extension designed corridor utilizes landscapes and topography that will minimize impacts to adjacent singletrack opportunities, showcase the namesake Rocky Branch Creek, traverse slopes that will allow for sustainable bench-cut style construction, and navigate the landscape at a reasonable average gradient.
The designed corridor runs from Rocky Branch Park’s East Gateway trailhead off of Sacco St. to the Stuart W. Cramer High School property line to the west (Attachment A - Figure 1, Phase 1.1). The CTT Belmont Extension is 3,315 linear feet in length, and includes the construction of five (5) bridges and one (1) culvert crossing. It has opportunity for 1,335 linear feet of trail to be developed at full width of 8 feet, while the remainder should be built at a reduced width of 6 feet, with short segments as narrow as 4 feet to avoid mature tree root damage. The finished trail tread shall be compacted, smooth, root and obstacle free, wide enough to accommodate passing users, and capped with crusher run gravel.
The project includes four add alternates that will be awarded depending on project budget availability. The first add alternate includes improvements to the parking lot and park entrance off of Sacco St. These improvements include clearing brush from the west end of the parking lot, minor fine grading, and adding additional ABC stone. A plan of the parking lot improvements is included in Attachment D. The second add alternate is the construction of two rock boulder cairn trailhead entry monuments to frame the entrance of the Carolina Thread Trail. A schematic of the trailhead entry monuments are included in Attachment E. The third add alternate is the construction of a trailhead map kiosk displaying a map of the park trails and a regional map of the Carolina Thread Trail system. A schematic of the map kiosk is included in attachment F. The final add alternate is the construction of a trailhead donor kiosk recognizing the many donors that contributed to the project. A schematic of the donor kiosk is included in Attachment F.
Further details of the bid, contract, and project specifications are included in subsequent sections of this project manual.
Company/Organization/Agency Submitting Contract: City of Belmont & Tarheel Trailblazers Mountain Bike Association
Primary Contact for Contract Information: David Baker
Email Address: davidbaker.ce@hotmail.com
Closest City to Project: Belmont
State/Province/Region: North Carolina
Country: United States
Pre-Bid Meeting Date: 9/29/2020
Responses to questions as recorded in the RFI log
Anticipated Project Start Date: 11/9/2020
Application Deadline: NEW DEADLINE: 10/13/2020
Additional Project Bid Information: Project Manual will be sent directly through email.
Date Submitted to PTBA: 9/16/2020
