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Today's Poll!Heat, no rain creating construction ‘headaches’
Construction for the new railroad bridge, above, in Osage City is not progressing as planned at a stand still as the Osage River water levels keep dropping, not allowing the crane barge, right, to get to the bridge.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
It’s a given that contractors don’t like a steady diet of rain or snow or really cold weather.
But who would have thought that weeks of no rain could create a construction headache?
It is creating a possible problem for the state Transportation Department’s construction of a second railroad bridge at Osage City — because the Osage River is running lower than usual, and the original plans for the new $20 million, 1,200-foot railroad bridge require construction cranes in the river lifting steel beams and other pieces into place as the bridge is extended across the water.
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muleman 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Well how darn hard is it to let enough water out of the lake to get the barge moved?
tonto_goldberg 10 months, 2 weeks ago
It's pretty hard for MODOT to get AMEREN to let water out of the dam.
kentheco 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Sorry Mr. Watson, though I think you knew what you wanted to say, somehow the photo caption became garbled/changed meanings from what the full story reads. In the article, you quoted Mr. Troy Hughes MoDOT’s Project Manager, as saying “If the water’s too low, it would hamper the barges holding the cranes” and then “so far the problem hasn’t slowed construction, targeted for completion next year.” How then, can “not progressing as planned at a stand still as the Osage River water levels keep dropping, not allowing the crane barge, right, to get to the bridge” be an accurate caption? In addition, “stand still” should be “standstill.” Realizing that headlines and captions are what attract the readers to the story, in this instance, the caption totally changed the facts of the story so that if a person only read the caption, their understanding of the situation, would be based on faulty information.
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