Ice Breaking on Kennebec River, Maine
KENNEBEC RIVER, MAINE- The Coast Guard Cutter Morro Bay, a 140-foot icebreaking tug from New London, Conn., plows through a layer of ice on the ...
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Vermont Rebounding Quickly From Hurricane Irene
The road? Less so. Wedged between the river and the steep hills, this highway, a well-traveled east-west connector, was hit by torrents from above and surges from below — the devastating one-two punch from what had been Hurricane Irene. “You couldn’t even tell there was ever a road there, the day after the flood,” said Kenneth Robie, project manager for rebuilding 107.
Now enormous haulers capable of carrying 60 tons of stone in every load rumble back and forth across the river, delivering the 300,000 tons of rock required to fill in the holes and build up the roadbed and embankments. A special “rock train” carts pink stone 100 miles from quarries near Burlington, and workers scoop washed-out stone and gravel from the river itself.
Yet what is truly impressive about the work here is not the amount of damage, or even the size of the big boy toys involved in the repair. Instead, it is that 107 is the last stretch of state road that Vermont has not finished repairing. In the three months since Hurricane Irene, the state repaired and reopened some 500 miles of damaged road, replaced a dozen bridges with temporary structures and repaired about 200 altogether.
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Vermont Rebounding Quickly From Hurricane Irene
National Guard units from eight states showed up, along with road crews from the Departments of Transportation from Maine and New Hampshire, and armies of private contractors. The attitude, said Sue Minter, Vermont's deputy secretary of transportation, ...
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i95travelinfo.net Spells Relief for Holiday Travelers on the East Coast 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Travelers from Maine to Florida this Thanksgiving holiday will be able to save time and better plan their trips thanks to a web site that provides them with real-time traffic information and estimated drive times for roadways ... |
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Stories appearing in Wednesday's edition of the Herald-Whig Bordenkircher's comments were made Tuesday night, less than 48 hours before a special meeting of the Quincy School Board scheduled for 5 pm Thursday in the Board of Education office, 1416 Maine. The board is expected to immediately go into executive ... |
How to Survive Getting Lost in the Maine Woods
Some other items to consider carrying with you while hunting include: a map of your hunting area, space blanket, flash light and the free booklet, “Lost in the Maine Woods,” published by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. ...
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York County Coast Star calendar of events Kick-off at 10 am at the Sugar Shack, Lower Village, where maps will be available throughout the day. $20 in advance, $25 that day. Presented by Kennebunk High School's Class of 2014. 967-9988. RELIEF PRINTING WORKSHOP: 10 am-2 pm River Tree Arts, ... |
