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Ship Traffic Restored to Key Baltimore Canal By Brenda Ruggiero
Stacy Ouellette/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Vegas Plays Host to World of Concrete…8
H&K Group Leads Huge Indust rial Park Job…28
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) project was recently necessary to restore ship traffic in a major artery serving the port of Baltimore, Md. The 14-mi. (22.5 km) Chesapeake and Delaware Canal was built in the 1820s and connects the bay to the Delaware River. It reportedly carries more than 40 percent of the port’s shipping traffic, including roll-on and roll-off cargo, cars, fuel, and coal. When shoaling emerged, emergency dredging was necessary. The project began on Dec. 15, 2012, and was set to be complete by press time. Dragging and surveying is still under way. The full dollar amount of the project is $8.9 million. According to Tim Kelly, Army Corps’ project manager for the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, money for the dredging itself, more than $7 million of the total, came from the
A clamshell bucket dredge scoops dredged materials from the Chesapeake Bay for transport to Poplar Island.
see CANAL page 107
Post Sandy: Elevating Shore Homes in Demand Ale x Lyon & Son Ki cks Off Florida Auctions…114
By Tom Avril
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TUCKERTON, N.J. (AP) Contractors slid 80-ft. (24 m) steel beams through the crawl space beneath the beige ranch house. They turned on a compressor, inflating a series of air bags that
Truck & Trailer Section ..59-65 Recycling Section ............69-95 Attachment Section ....101-105 Parts Section ................106-107 Auction Section ..........112-132 Business Calendar ..............124 Advertisers Index ................130
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
had been placed under the beams. Then, slowly and smoothly, the 60-ton (54 t) structure started its rise above the reach of the next monster flood. Or so Kathleen Centuolo hopes. “I can’t wrap my head around it,’’ she recently told The Philadelphia Inquirer, as she
watched the sliver of daylight beneath her house grow wider and wider. The post-Sandy rebuilding of the Jersey Shore is well under way, and companies that specialize in elevating houses are in high demand, despite a price tag well into the tens of thousands. It is a
massive job that requires skill and careful planning, and along the crowded New Jersey waterfront, there is an extra wrinkle: Where do you put the house while building a higher foundation? see HOMES page 41
Nearly $120B Spent on 2012 Transportation Jobs State departments of transportation (DOTs) and local governments committed a little more than $117 billion in funding for highway, bridge, transit, port and other transportation-related construction projects during 2012, according to new
analysis of the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). ARTBA’s monthly report, “Value of Transportation Construction Put in Place,” was
compiled by Alison Premo Black, the association’s chief economist. Black noted that while this represents a one percent increase over the $116 billion committed in 2011, real transportation construction activity fell well short of its
2010 peak, when $129 billion worth of construction work was “put in place” during the year, in large part because of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act. see TRANSPORTATION page 108