The almost century-old seawall lining the banks of the Hudson River along its path through Troy, N.Y., was in need of repair after sustaining damage during Hurricane Irene.
Completion of Atlanta’s $321.3-million, five-year project in late 2020 to expand its strained regional water supply comes as conditions may be worsening.
Ethiopia has begun generating electricity at its new 5,000-MW roller-compacted concrete gravity-type dam on the Nile River. The first 375 MW went to the national grid on Feb. 20.
When Daniel O’Connell’s Sons won the construction contract in 2018 for the $122-million York Street Pump Station and Connecticut River Crossing project in Springfield, Mass., the owner’s designer, Kleinfelder, suggested pipe jacking to launch three new wastewater conveyance pipelines at the pump station that would run under a railroad and flood wall before crossing the river and passing through a levee to the Springfield Water & Sewer Commission treatment facility in Agawam, Mass.
