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Northern Construction Service LLC was hired by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation to restore about $3.1 million of assessed damage to roads and beaches ripped up by Hurricane Sandy as it cut a path of destruction through southern New England.
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The Block Island Ferry operators hadn’t seen anything like it since they began ferrying passengers over from the mainland to the vacation island by boat through Narragansett Bay, not even for the famous Hurricane of 1938. Transporting cars and motorcycles for island visitors to drive? Sure, they do that every day. Carrying bikes and scooters to maneuver the winding roads? Of course, that’s the business. But a working fleet of several large excavators, a bulldozer, a roller, front-end loaders and trucks, heavy iron driven down from Palmer, Mass. to the creaking piers of Newport, then 12 mi. to sea? No, sir; not ever. Northern Construction Service LLC drove the equipment from its yard to the Newport docks to board the ship after the company won a bidding process. Northern was hired by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) to restore about $3.1 million of assessed damage to roads and
beaches ripped up by Hurricane Sandy as it cut a path of destruction through southern New England. It was a unique start to a job that began in October, a few days after the storm caused billions of dollars of damage in several oceanfront states along the Atlantic Seaboard, and ended on time and on budget in late December. “The equipment did come over on the ferry,” said Eric Rahkonen, who managed the project for Northern Construction. “That process was difficult, as we were required to work around the regular passenger ferry trips. This led to us operating in early morning trips or late-in-theday trips.” Damage to the Island Manhattan Island and Long Island were greatly damaged by Sandy and Staten Island virtually destroyed; the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., was turned into kindling and 500,000 people lost power in New Jersey alone, and this little comma of land 12 mi. off the coast of the Rhode Island see NOrTHErN page 4