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“The Nation’s Best Read Construction Newspaper… Founded 1957.” August 25, 2012 • Vol. VIII • No. 17 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215/885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215/885-2910 • www.constructionequipmentguide.com
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Dam Removal Uncovers Tribal Site
A U.S. Army crew from the 864th Engineer Battalion of the 555th Engineer Brigade of Ft. Lewis, Wa., pours concrete on the 25 percent grade of the eastern slope.
built,” said 1st Lt. Nick Martino, of the 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group at Camp Pendleton. “The slopes of the hill and the amount of soil we had to take make this a unique and challenging project.” Martino and his crew of engineers began cutting and subgrading for the road in March, using excavating equipment rented from Hertz. When
PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) A site sacred to a Washington state tribe has been found among the 1,100 acres of land that emerged after the Elwha Dam was removed and waters receded. Now, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe would like to have that land back, The Seattle Times reported Aug. 11. “A group of us walked to the site and actually stood on the rock known to us as the creation site,” said tribe chairwoman Frances Charles. “It was eerie in some ways. We were walking on the soil that had been underwater for 100 years, and witnessing the old cedars. It was emotional, with joy and happiness.” Charles was notified by National Park Service cultural-resources staff that they had found the site in July. Long passed on in oral tradition, the sacred site is where, by tribal teaching, the Creator bathed and blessed the Klallam people, and where tribal members for generations uncounted sought to learn their future. When Congress authorized removal of the dam southwest of Port Angeles in 1992, the so-called project lands were to be set
see ROAD page 10
see SITE page 38
Komatsu Equipment Breaks Ground on New Branch...14
Tim Frank Named SANY America C hairman...44
‘Extreme’ Road Challenges Military, Border Personnel By Marty Graham CEG CORRESPONDENT
Ritchie Bros. Holds Sale in Fort Worth...54
A unique road built within spilling distance of the U.S.-Mexico border for the U.S. Border Patrol proved to be a test of the mettle of both the equipment and the operators, all active duty military personnel. “This is the most extreme piece of road we’ve
Table of Contents ................4 Crushing, Screening & Recycling Section ........15-27 Attachment Section ....39-43
Project to Recycle Expressway Beams, Replace Old Oklahoma County Bridges Gets Start
Truck & Trailer Section45-48 By Tim Talley
Auction Section ..........51-59
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Business Calendar ............44
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A project to recycle an Oklahoma expressway’s steel beams to replace deficient and obsolete
Advertisers Index ..............58
county bridges is likely the largest transportation recycling effort in the nation, the state’s top transportation official said Aug. 6. The closure of Oklahoma City’s Interstate 40 Crosstown Expressway following completion of a new stretch of I-40 earlier this
year freed up about 1,800 steel beams that were part of an 8,800-ft.-long bridge. About 1,600 of those beams have been deconstructed so far, and about 1,350 have been delivered for county road projects, Transportation see BEAMS page 28