Officials Blame Contractors in Tunnel Leak
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The tunnel containing this city&#39;s sunken highway - the crown jewel of the Big Dig, Boston&#39;s mammoth $14.6 billion highway project - is leaking because of improper construction
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By Edward J. Crowder, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Feb. 3--BRIDGEPORT -- In the late 1990s, state Department of Transportation employees working on the P.T. Barnum Bridge made a disturbing report to superiors.
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The Big Dig - Boston&#39;s newly opened $14.6 billion highway tunnel project - has a seriously flawed wall that contractors knew about as early as 1999, and is riddled with hundreds
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Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the private company that manages the Big Dig, said yesterday that plugging leaks in the Interstate 93 section of the tunnels will take &quot;months, not years,&quot; as a routine part of finishing the $14.6 billion project.
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BOSTON - The Big Dig - Boston&#39;s newly opened $14.6 billion highway tunnel project - has a seriously flawed wall that contractors knew about as early as 1999, and is riddled with hundreds of smaller leaks, consultants reported in another embarrassment for
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A manager for a private security contractor warned executives that he lacked proper equipment in Iraq a day before four of its employees were killed and two were left hanging from a bridge, a House committee disclosed Wednesday.
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Boston&#39;s Big Dig, a new system of freeway tunnels beneath the city and its harbor, has started springing leaks, and Massachusetts officials say San Francisco&#39;s Bechtel Corp.
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The past several months have seen increasing public scrutiny of federal government contractors. The concerns raised by Congress and highlighted in the news media include organizational conflicts of interest, inappropriate outsourcing and excess profits.
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Billions of pounds have been splashed on repairing worn underground pipes since the privatisation of Britain&#039;s water industry in 1989, but network operators are still struggling to plug the leaks.
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The contractor that botched construction of a $75 million police academy in Baghdad so badly that it was deemed a health risk has produced shoddy work on 13 out of 14 projects reviewed by federal auditors, the top official monitoring Iraq's reconstruction told Congress today.
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At least 12 tons of concrete collapsed onto a car in a Big Dig tunnel, fatally crushing a passenger and prompting renewed scrutiny Tuesday of a troubled highway project that is already the costliest in U.S. history. The state attorney general said he plans to treat the site as a crime scene that could lead to negligent homicide charges.
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The scene was hosed down before investigators could gather material. Was it government complicity or incompetence?
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An investigation of tunnel leaks in the Big Dig highway project was repeatedly hindered by officials of the top contractor and the state agency that manages it, says the retired judge who led the probe.
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The independent agency charged with overseeing the &#36;14.6 billion highway project known as the Big Dig intends to sue the consortium that managed the venture, seeking to recover as much as &#36;100 million in costs for design errors and construction mistakes.
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Specialists hired by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority have discovered a second section of the Big Dig&#39;s Interstate 93 tunnel with a defect similar to
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Contractors who worked on the Boston highway project have agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the state over a fatal tunnel ceiling collapse and to cover the costs of leaks and design flaws.
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The Big Dig &#151; Boston's newly opened &#36;14.6 billion highway tunnel project &#151; has a seriously flawed wall that contractors knew about as early as 1999, and is riddled with hundreds of smaller leaks, consultants reported in another embarrassment for the builders and the city.