South Park Bridge - Project photo documentary
October 2011
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Oct. 26, 2011
Old south pier serves as platform for building new south pier.
Photo by John Stamets
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Oct. 26, 2011
Rebar atop cutting shoe in south caisson.
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Oct. 26, 2011
These walls will be about 100 feet deep when the north caisson is finished.
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Oct. 26, 2011
The added clean gravel is dredged from north caisson.
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Oct. 26, 2011
The barge is balanced with gravel dredged from the caisson.
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Oct. 21, 2011
Flying in the Pier 3 cutting shoe.
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Oct. 21, 2011
Placement of Pier 3 cutting shoe.
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Oct. 21, 2011
DB General places Pier 3 cutting shoe.
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Oct. 21, 2011
Curtains of rebar are for the lowest walls of the Pier 3 caisson.
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Oct. 20, 2011
First concrete pour of north caisson walls.
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Oct. 20, 2011
First concrete pour of north caisson walls - from another view.
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Oct. 20, 2011
First concrete pour of Pier 4 caisson.
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Oct. 20, 2011
Tiny backhoe or giant cofferdam?
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Oct. 19, 2011
Backfill of Pier 3 cofferdam is almost finished.
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Oct. 18, 2011
At Pier 4: ready for concrete pour of caisson's bottom walls.
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Oct. 15, 2011
Backfilling Pier 3 cofferdam with clean gravel.
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Oct. 15, 2011
Clean gravel goes into cofferdam.
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Oct. 12, 2011
Flying in: Rebar curtain for lowest level of north caisson.
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Oct. 8, 2011
Dredging sediment from Pier 3 cofferdam.
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Oct. 7, 2011
Pouring bottom of cutting shoe, about four feet below workers.
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Oct. 7, 2011
Pouring Pier 4 cutting shoe.
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Oct. 6, 2011
Plywood layer is added to first set of steel formwork for north caisson.
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Oct. 6, 2011
Rebar is for bottom walls of north caisson near north bank.
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Oct. 5, 2011
Cutting shoe for Pier 3 awaits pick up at Jesse Engineering in Tacoma.
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Oct. 5, 2011
Caisson cell cross braces in Pier 3 cutting shoe.
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Oct. 5, 2011
Looking up at the tip of a cross brace in the cutting shoe.
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Oct. 4, 2011
Water level in south cofferdam (right) is below river level.
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