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Tag: landslide
Roadbuilding
Huge landslide shuts down major N.C. highway
About 2,000 people were evacuated Wednesday after emergency managers warned the Lake Tahoma dam. Heavy rain triggered landslides at the dam.
June 7, 2018
Roadbuilding
PennDOT sets aggressive schedule to repair landslide-damaged Route 30
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation says it has established an “extremely aggressive” timetable for rebuilding a section of Route 30 in East Pittsburgh that collapsed this month, damaging a house and apartment building. The collapse occurred due to a 250-foot-wide landslide that damaged a house and apartment building. Residents in the area have been temporarily […]
April 25, 2018
Roadbuilding
Slow motion landslide on Wash.’s Rattlesnake Ridge threatens I-82
A crack in Rattlesnake Ridge above the small town of Union Gap, Wash., discovered in October 2017, has turned into a crevasse, widening at a rate of 1.7 feet per week, Courthouse News reports. Geologists expect the entire section of bedrock to break off completely by May and slide down the side of the mountain, […]
January 30, 2018
Roadbuilding
Calif. uses ABC for first time to replace bridge destroyed in landslide
A 49-year-old concrete bridge in the Big Sur community of California that collapsed from a landslide has been replaced after eight months, the state’s department of transportation reports. Caltrans used accelerate bridge construction for the first time to build the new State Route 1 Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge. “It’s a project that would normally take several […]
October 17, 2017
Roadbuilding
Idaho road worker captures footage of large landslide as it blocks highway
Idaho Transportation Department workers were out near Elk City performing some simple maintenance on Idaho Highway 14 when part of the mountain gave way to a huge landslide that blocked the highway. The landslide left the main route to the small town of Elk City blocked off for nearly a week. ITD transportation technician Bret Edwards was […]
March 2, 2016
Roadbuilding
Caltrans workers clear Highway 299 after a landslide
A minor landslide earlier this month turned into a much larger problem in California after El Nino pounded northern California. The California Department of Transportation spent two days digging Highway 299 out from 1,500 cubic yards of debris that fell on the highway. For two days, the road was closed disrupting a connection between 130,000 people […]
February 1, 2016
Construction Equipment
Excavator rides a landslide into the jungle
A couple weeks ago we saw an excavator operator escape a hillside collapse while staying inside his machine. Today’s video is pretty much the reverse of that situation entirely. While the previous operator was working beneath a crumbling hillside, today’s operator is working atop the earth deteriorating beneath him. And rather than keep cool and […]
October 23, 2015
Roadbuilding
Better Bridges
A massive landslide causes Tennessee DOT to rethink its rebuilding.
February 17, 2012
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