Pickets gone, but Bertha isn’t moving yet Despite a halt to the - TopicsExpress



          

Pickets gone, but Bertha isn’t moving yet Despite a halt to the longshore union’s picketing Tuesday, tunnel-boring machine Bertha needs a few days before it can restart. One might expect drilling to begin immediately, given that Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP) had four weeks of delay to prepare. But it’s not that simple, contractor and state officials say. Rumors and tips abound regarding the supposed real reason Bertha is idle — anything from electrical flaws, to an inability to chew through concrete grout in the soil. All of these, the project officials vehemently deny. But if Bertha does have mechanical flaws, those will be manifested, before too long. (This is just the beginning of the full article which can be accessed on longshorecontract when it launches Oct 1)
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 17:15:29 +0000

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