i am going to work monday at the canal job and it says to exit gordons wells rd but can not find it on any map site, also which is closer yuma or el centro because i need to hotel this job.. i prefer yuma(cleaner) and the river is right there

Yuma is about 25 minutes from Gordon's and El Centro is about 45 minutes.

The Gordon's Well exit is after Brock Research Road, but berfore the rest area and Grays Well road (Buttercup)

thanks alot pwrmad

I concurr with PWR MAD's statement.

That is strange that it is marked Gordon's Well on the highway but not on a map?

must have been stolen by a flatbiller hacker

According to MapQuest, it's exit # 151.

I'd stay in Yuma. Lots of hotels right on the 16th street exit in Yuma. Super 8, Holiday Inn, Best Western Innsuites etc...

The Yuma Mall and lots of resuraunts in that same area too.

Stay in Yuma
Lots more to do when your not working.
If your coming from Yuma exit gordons well rd. then turn Left
You cant miss the work site on the south side of the freeway

Definately stay in Yuma. There is much more to do and it is much nicer than El Centro!

If you get lucky, you can stay at the Yuma Prison..

DOH!!

It's actually a tourist trap.. (Museum)

I actually timed how long it took me to get from Gordon's to Yuma. I started the timer when I pulled onto the on-ramp and stopped it when I pulled off on the 4th ave off ramp. It was almost 15 minutes exactly and I never went over the speed limit.

I didn't have my trailer with me though so I was able to do the full speed limit

While you're in Yuma drop me a message, our homebrew nights are slowing down but we've still got a couple of kegs that need to be drained so there may be a brew night this wednesday...and I believe it's friday we're planning an all grain brew at a friends house to celebrate another friend who's both coming back...and leaving.

Yuma, at night hit up algo dunes or calexico. My friend has some hook ups on the clubs down there. Pretty fun, even though its mexico.

Just watch your shiat. I had a bunch of coolers and a toolbox stolen out of my boat/truck while in the calexico parking lot.

Oh and gordons is the 3rd exit i believe out of el centro. There is the broch or whateve research station and another exit then gordons. After gordons is grays well aka buttercup.

damn its hot and humid here fin 'a and the illegals suck

I bet it is hotter than hades out there!

What kind of issues are you seeing with our uninvited visitors from the south?

2quads with guns came up to a sub-contactor to distract b.p. and run a drug truck over they fdailed b.p. ignored them come monday i bring a gun

and a vest god the sh*t does not end here but i got a monday thur fri postal serive s from gordons - fontana area established ---open to helping the board, i have a f-150 2wd i'll will help u!!!!!!

Crooks with guns on quads helping run drugs.....Holy effin sheep shiat batman, thats some crazy stuff.

I wish more people would realize that we have a problem and do something about it.

How is the canal project coming???

We were out there for a night run Saturday and there was a lot of equipment on the south side of the Gordons exit. Big crane and lots of heavy equipment.

that big red crane is mine.....

they are telling the employees that duners have the right of way on weekends

the canal job is still grow night shifts start soon

saw your crane out there.. there were 2 of them and they are some big effers..

What exactly is going on out there in laymans terms. Someone told me the Mexicans are a bit upset cause they might be losing some of thier water supply??

They made a pad that looks some 5000 sqft on the east side of the buttercup canal crossing and have a bunch of buildings ready to go in.. Looks to be a long big project..

the blue crane is going to drive 5000lb sheets of steel in the ground for a fake divert thing,-, the red crane is there to fly material out and down in to the canal(steel,forms wood).
our job starts at the gordons bridge and goes west 10-12- miles.

keiwit is at the pilot rock end , the pad was for office and such.

and yes the mexicans are pissed they were getting 68,000 acre feet of water free a year from the old canal leaking thats 260,000 people over here. they though they had a historical right to the water buit we built the first canal and brought our share of water to the desert so screw them.

the buggy bridge will be open during the season and my company has stressed that we stay out of the duners way

hey there just a note , don't haul ass through the jobsite .
duners are allowed access but if you haul ass there will be problems ,as in a 631 scraper with a load weights in at 200 tons plus and they do NOT have brakes they will flatin a rail in a second , a yellow 4 seater flew by us yesterday at about 40mph plus with a rhino behind it. looked cool but slow down for the 20 secs in the job zone. we are building the next bridge for the crossing so that the duners will still be able to cross the new canal

Well, what should be common sense, isn't so common any more

Let's hope everyone wises up

still effing hot here

ok the heat broke good morning ride weather but...........................
the sidewinders are out, this morning at 3 am during are company safety meeting a sidewinder slithered into the circle of the crew lucky someone spoted it and tagged it with a wrench and stunned it we gave it a 300yd ride to mexico just watch your a$$ out there it is there play time too

weather is great right now

thanks Elf.. Take a pic of those bad boys before exporting them..
ah hell, you should give the border patrol a call, give them something important to do..

Lets see some pics of all this work!

Hey Elf, might be a dumb question, but have they graded any of the roads into dunebuggy flats, I assume you have equip that needs to get in and out of there with out getting stuck all the time, I know the big stuff can plow through, but I assumed along vendor row they may have graded that to get things in and out easier, along with our rigs of course. If not it sure would be nice. Thanks Kev

my job site is off gordons wells road, i am a glamis person so i am not familar with where dune buggy flats is i do know that if you cross the bridge there is access just be careful

Dunebuggy flats it the camping area at GW. It starts right after the bridge going over the canal all the way to sand highway.

north side of freeway is good except for rich fracking guy building and buying the cafe

Is the Diner open?

not that i am aware i will check next week

well my company is mean they filed and got a amendment to the bridge access and now they will only allow acess on weekends and holidays which screws with south dune access. i saw 2 duners stopped and told to leave. angryfire:

when is that job over?

Is buttercup still open? When we drove by it looked like the area near the bubble was all fenced off.

Fire elf are you talking about the greys well bridge or the bridge that we use to cross over to go to the drags?

The bridge over the freeway???? Are you even working close to that?

it is gordons wells the bridge nearest the diner, buttercup is fine they are just building the sherrif/ranger station the south bridge.

ha i cant wait to see them enforce that. What about all of the toyhaulers,motorhomes etc that use that bridge.

there are 2 bridges , the freeway one is open the canal one is closed during the week

I can't see the canal one being closed for long... even during the week... there are so many people that use that bridge its a traffic jam getting in and out of Gordons... The only other way out is crossing the canal at 5 mile drop (which isn't likely to happen if you're towing something big) or driving all the way north through Glamis to the 78.

I am thinking it is the bridge south of the freeway that crosses the canal? Not sure though.

Here are some pics. the orange fenced in "hole" is where the vendors are at buttercup. The parking area and road pix are behind the Buttercup dunes E. of the vendors. The Crane and bridge pix are near gordons, the whole place is effed up.
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OK THAT IS THE KIEWEIT SIDE ,follow me on this, the crane is drive steel pile for future work, the parking is /????, the hole IS gone a dozer smoothed it all out and the orange fence is gone.everything nrth of the 8 freeway should be intact ,but the SOUTH
gordons well bridge is closed during the week,

I read they are building a whole new canal and tying it in at the different drops,so which side of the canal is the new one going to be at test hill? to the east, next to the freeway or to the west next to the hill.