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Across US, Infrastructure Is Crumbling
Oct 29th 2009 – 5:28PM
SAN FRANCISCO -- Billions of dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 are being spent on infrastructure projects across the country, but as last week's closing of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge shows, for every problem that gets addressed, it seems like 10 more are waiting. Built in 1936, and...
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- 05/21/12 Golden Gate celebrates 75th with help of engineers Source: Statesman Journal - Salem OR "You couldn't have put the bridge in a more corrosive atmosphere than in the middle of the Golden Gate with that salt fog coming in," Mohn said.
Background on Loma Prieta
Loma Prieta (from Spanish loma -hill, prieta -dark) is a Northern California mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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