WORK ZONE TRAFFIC CONTROL PART 4

Maintenance

LMK Pipe Renewal facilities on state highway right of ways are to be maintained in a manner

satisfactory to the State of Florida and at LMK Pipe Renewal expense.

Emergency Maintenance Procedures.

Emergencies that require immediate attention or repair of a utility installation may preclude

following normal procedures for securing a working permit.

Emergency maintenance in relation to sewer installations on the interstate and conventional

highway system will be considered as any immediate maintenance required to the sewer

installation for the safety of the traveling public or any immediate maintenance required for the

health and safety of the general public served by the sewer.

In the event the emergency is such as to create a hazard on the traveled portion of the roadway,

immediate steps shall be taken by LMK Pipe Renewal to provide all necessary protection for

traffic on the highway including the use of signs, lights, barricades, or flagmen. If a hazard does

not exist on the traveled way, but the nature of the emergency is such as to require repair

equipment to be parked on the shoulder of the roadway, adequate signs and lights shall be

provided. Parking on the interstate shoulder in such an emergency will only be permitted when

no other means of access to the sewer installation is available.

In the event of an emergency, LMK Pipe Renewal shall, as soon as possible, notify the State

District Engineer or his duly authorized agent of emergency. He shall be informed as to what

steps have been taken for the protection of the traveling public and what will be required to make

the necessary repairs. If the nature of the emergency is such as to interfere with the free

movement of traffic, the State Police as well as the District Engineer shall be notified

immediately.

In case of an emergency, LMK Pipe Renewal shall use all means at hand to complete repairs as

rapidly as possible and with the least inconvenience to the traveling public.

Florida law requires flaggers - Florida revised statues

"At all times during which men are working where one-way traffic is utilized, the contractor or

his authorized agent in charge of such construction will be required to furnish no fewer than two

flagmen, one at each end of the portion of highway or bridge on which only one-way traffic is

permitted, and at least 100 feet away from the nearest point of the highway or bridge on which

only one-way traffic is permitted. The flagmen shall be equipped with safe, suitable, and proper

signal devices as prescribed in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and

Highways published by the Department of Transportation and shall so use such devices as to

inform approaching motorists to stop or proceed. In addition, safe, suitable, and proper signals

and signs as prescribed in the Manual shall be so placed as to warn approaching persons of the

existence of any portion of highway or bridge upon which only one-way traffic is safe and

permitted. At bridge construction or bridge repair sites, where one-way traffic is utilized, traffic

control signals conforming to the Manual may be installed and operated in lieu of, or in addition

to, flagmen."