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October 17, 2008

Maintaining Grays Harbor bridges no easy task

  • A WSDOT crew of four is responsible for keeping five drawbridges in Aberdeen and Hoquiam running smoothly.
    • By MacLEOD PAPPIDAS
    The Daily World

    HOQUIAM, Grays Harbor County — Speed is of the essence.

    After lugging buckets of oil and sundry equipment more than 80 feet up a vertiginous, outdoor circular staircase, nine men stand in a small, suspended steel cabin, amid the massive cogs, wheels and wire ropes that carry the weight of the Riverside draw bridge.


     
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