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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In a burgeoning political and engineering scandal, Boston&#39;s gleaming new underground Interstate 93 is riddled with hundreds of leaks.
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BOSTON -- The family of a woman killed when the ceiling of a Big Dig tunnel collapsed on her car last year has agreed to a $6 million settlement with the company that supplied the epoxy blamed for the accident, a lawyer said Monday.
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Boston -- Leaks in the Big Dig highway tunnel system are more widespread than officials have acknowledged, and top construction managers warned as far back as six years ago about problems that could cause waterproofing failures, records show.
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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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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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Federal prosecutors in Boston on   Wednesday said they had charged an electrical contractor who   had worked on the city's troubled "Big Dig" tunnel contract   with overbilling for work on the project.
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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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Officials at a Big Dig construction company have been unable to locate a memo a safety officer said he wrote in 1999 warning his superiors that portions of a tunnel's ceiling could collapse, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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Leaks in the Big Dig highway tunnel system are more widespread than state officials have acknowledged, and top construction managers had warned as far back as 1998 about problems that could cause failures in tunnel waterproofing, the Boston Globe reported Wednesday.
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Water is accumulating on the underground roof of the Big Dig tunnels, according to Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, who said yesterday that his office is trying to determine whether the pools of water pose any threat of damage to the $14.
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Falling slabs of concrete and asbestos exposure are two reasons that a federal agency should investigate the passages under the U.S. Capitol complex amid an ongoing safety dispute with the Architect of the Capitol, a group of tunnel workers said Thursday.
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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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WASHINGTON -- The contractor that botched construction of a $75 million police academy in Baghdad so badly that human waste dripped from the ceilings has produced shoddy work on 13 out of 14 projects reviewed by federal auditors, the top official monitoring Iraq's reconstruction told Congress yesterday.
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There is a "high possibility" a huge underground drainage tunnel could soon fail, flooding parts of this mountain-ringed metropolis 15 feet deep in sewage, the national water agency said Tuesday.
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BOSTON, Oct. 4 -- A special grand jury has been convened to investigate the construction and design of Big Dig tunnels as part of a criminal probe into a tunnel ceiling collapse that killed a Boston woman.
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By SAMANTHA YOUNG  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two state divers who died while inspecting an aqueduct that supplies water to millions of people relied on recreational equipment that is considered unsafe for the conditions they faced, industry and diving experts said Thursday.