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August 21, 2006

Update: Bridge rising in Quonset

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Mammoet, the Dutch company that specializes in moving huge objects, today began hoisting the arch for the new Providence River Bridge at Pier 1 at Quonset Point.

By about 11:30 a.m., the arch was jacked up 30 feet in the air. Construction crews used winches on towers at each end of the bridge to hoist the 400-foot bridge.

Later today, crews will lower the bridge onto self-propelled transporters.

The wheeled transporters will then carry the bridge across the pier and onto two barges that will move it to Providence.

The state Department of Transportation hopes the bridge can be floated to Providence on the barges on Friday and set into place on Saturday.

-- Journal staff writer Bruce Landis

Posted by Steve Peoples  at 12:07 PM | Permalink

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