The process of constructing a new car ferry will be conducted in
phases. The project will be funded by a Federal Grant and administered
by the State of Wisconsin. The Cassville Harbor Commission is the
local governing body of the Village of Cassville for operation
of the Car Ferry.The Commission has appointed a Committee and directed
it to proceed with the project. It will comply will all local,
state, and federal guidelines. The first phase will be the design
of the project. Letters were sent to ten potential marine design
architecs requesting their qualifications to submit designs for
approval. A list of four companies were chosen to submit bids for
the design of the project. The bids were let on February 1st and
are due February 19th. They will be opened at a 4PM meeting at
Village Hall on February 22nd. Hopefully a designer can be chosen
from these bids after the committee has had a chance to review
them. After a designer is chosen, the design of the project will
begin with an anticipated completion date prior to June. At that
time, the completed design will enter the construction phase and
will be submitted to the State of Wisconsin to request construction
bids. The committee met on March 1st at 4:00 PM and elected to choose Farrell
and Norton Naval Architects to provide the design for the new Cassville
Ferry project. The design project needs to be completed and submitted
to the State for release for construction bids by June 1st of this
year. The committee is presently scheduling a meeting with Farrell
and Norton to begin the process.
The design phase is almost completed and
will be submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation
by June 1st. The Wisconsin DOT will then prepare and
release the design to shipyards for bids to construct the
new vessel. Below,
you can observe some of the architech drawings of the barge
and boat. Once the bids are received by the Wisconsin DOT,
the winning bid will be chosen by low bid. You can view the
slideshow of these drawings below, and check back to this site
for future updates. |
