Boston Highway Project Said Full of Leaks
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The Big Dig highway project in downtown Boston is riddled with leaks dumping millions of gallons of water into the &#36;14.6 billion tunnel system, according to an engineer hired to investigate the cause of a massive leak in September.
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By Rowena Coetsee, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep. 20--Work on city streets that were wearing out abnormally fast because they contained a defective building material is expected to be finished by this time next year.
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Matthew Amorello's final weeks as head of the agency that oversees the Big Dig highway project was marked by criticism from the governor, cost overruns, contractors charged with providing substandard materials and, finally, a nightmare: falling concrete panels that killed a woman.
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Contractors told the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority of Big Dig tunnel leaks 34 months before MTA admitted knowing, the Boston Globe reports.
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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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A group of state, federal, and Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff engineers issued a confidential report in 1997 which concluded that miles of Big Dig tunnel walls were waterproofed with products
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Boston drivers may be facing weeks of detours as engineers work to resolve safety problems in a section of the Big Dig tunnel system where a woman died when concrete ceiling panels collapsed on her car.
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A leaked Israeli plan to build 1,000 new Jewish settler homes in the West Bank yesterday sent Bush administration officials scrambling for a response in the sensitive period before November&#39;s presidential election.
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State's top cop is gathering information about damage that may have been caused by covert attempts to unearth leaks to the media.
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Incident has fueled criticism of a plan to build a state-of-the-art research lab to study some of the world's most lethal germs in Boston.
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Use of Boston unit to investigate suspected news leaks provides intriguing geographic link for prosecutors.
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BOSTON Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is calling for the resignation of the head of the state&#39;s Turnpike Authority. Romney&#39;s move comes in the wake of reports that a record 14-point-six (b) billion-dollar
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The ceiling collapsed in one of Bostonâs Big Dig tunnels a year ago, killing a woman, because builders used the wrong epoxy, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
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BOSTON -- When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in the city's history: The Big Dig, the nation's most complex and costliest highway project, will officially come to an end.
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They didn't think we would want to know? Of course they knew better, and that is exactly why Boston University and the city, state, and federal officials who want to build a $128 million ''biodefense lab" that would bring the most deadly known pathogens and viruses to the South End kept their mouths shut about a breach in another BU ...
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Twenty years and $14.6 billion after its conception, the most ambitious public works project in the nation -- an unprecedented effort to route an unsightly highway deep beneath the central
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When a snowplow driver spraying salt on frozen roads in Hyannis cracked the window of a parked car in March, state highway officials knew whom to blame. They looked up records from the Global Positioning System satellite network and found which contractor was plowing the road at that time.