As crews from CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. tear down the four main buildings that make up the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) at the Dept. of Energy’s Hanford Nuclear Waste Site in southeastern Washington state, removal of contaminated buildings at one of the nation’s most radioactive sites nears key milestones en route to a full demolition later this year.
A 35-acre redevelopment plan in Vancouver, Washington, will connect the city to the Columbia River within the city’s historic core, mixing in residential, commercial and parkland as part of an ambitious plan to reimagine a waterfront blocked to the public for over 100 years.
Expect this spring to hold a complicated fix for the four Rall wheels on Portland’s Broadway Bridge, one of the few remaining lift bridges in the world using the Rall design.
The busiest ferry terminal for vehicles in Washington State will go brand-new as plans move forward on designing and building a new terminal one-third of a mile from the current 60-year-old Mukilteo ferry terminal near Everett.
In the early morning hours of Feb. 9, heavy rainfall and a high tide combined to knock off line Seattle’s 52-year-old West Point wastewater treatment plant.
As the federal FAST Act tolling program moves forward, Oregon believes it can pounce on an open window to enter into an early phase of the program and bring tolling to Oregon as a way to upgrade interstates in the Portland area.
Even as crews work to solve engineering quandaries associated with building the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant project in southeast Washington at the Dept. of Energy’s Hanford Nuclear Waste Site, work continues on tearing out the old facilities.
