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Substandard concrete was used in drainage inlets installed during construction on the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, a man who supplied the flawed material admitted in pleading guilty to federal charges ...
Crews have started removing concrete from a storm drain in Longwood's Shadowbay community on Wednesday after residents say the plug caused flooding for months."It was bad, we couldn't get out ...
Q. After all the rains last season, I finally decided to check my foundation to see if there was any water. I was surprised to find several pools of water and even more surprised to see black mold … ...
Unlike the county, the city’s maintenance of storm drain infrastructure is almost nonexistent. Sediment and debris ...
Q: My 30-year-old house features a large concrete front porch. One side edge has been crumbling over the past few years, and paint is peeling from a brick design that was pressed into the concrete.
In the mid-1800s, vexed by the floods that crippled Chicago with each heavy rain, city leaders sent to Boston for Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough, the most prominent engineer of his day. Chesbrough surv… ...
Normally, rainwater in the neighborhood flows down a drain and out to a retention pond. However, last month, the homeowner next to the drainage pipe hired a crew to fill it with concrete ...
Concrete infrastructure in urban environments appears to be altering the chemistry of rainwater flowing into our urban streams. Researchers analysed the pH (acidity) of water from urban and non ...
HANOVER TOWNSHIP — There are a lot of different elements that go into making concrete. But mostly, it’s water, cement, and gravel. But researchers a ...