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November 8, 2011

520 bridge taking shape in old Aberdeen log yard

  • Kiewit-General is first building a large graving dock where the bridge's pontoons will be built.
    • By JACOB JONES
    The Daily World

    ABERDEEN, Grays Harbor County — Construction crews at the Highway 520 pontoon project in Aberdeen closed off the mouth of the massive casting basin Thursday morning, using a 300-ton crane to lower two 50-ton sections of gate into place and setting the stage for crews to finish a channel running from the basin to the harbor.

    Where an empty Weyerhaeuser log yard once stood, hundreds of workers now toil amid towering concrete walls and metal reinforcements. Dozens poured concrete panels or set rebar Thursday while others constructed wooden forms or ran excavators.


     
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