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The Big Dig HAS BIG LEAKS (brought to you by Bechtel)
"They said millions of gallons were pouring out of that hole," said Eileen Hanley, a schoolteacher who was stuck in the tunnel that night. "I don't like the M-word when I'm stuck in a tunnel."
Work crews trooped in and repaired the hole. But in the weeks since, the Boston Globe has run a series of investigative reports noting that the 95 percent-completed tunnels are plagued by as many as 1,000 leaks and that the waterproofing provided "insufficient protection," according to a 2001 audit report. Engineers with Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the project managers, knew of these problems for seven years, according to the audit mentioned in the Globe.
In 1985, officials assigned a $2.5 billion price tag to the Big Dig. By the early 1990s, it had risen to $7.5 billion. It hit the $10 billion mark before 2000. To date, the Big Dig has cost $14.6 billion, an amount that edges higher with each leak...more
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- Juliayn Coleman
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The 'Big Dig' refers to the massive road infrastructure project that is currently taking place in Boston, Massachusetts. Undertaken by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/TP) commenced in 1991 and is scheduled for completion in 2004 at an estimated cost of $7.7 billion. The Big Dig is one of the most technically-challenging infrastructure projects ever undertaken in the US and will see the existing Central Artery, an elevated six-lane highway, replaced by a subterranean highway and the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90) extended.
- The Website For The Road Traffic Industry
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The Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel (or the Big Dig) project in Boston, MA is running $10 billion over budget, according to a newly-released Department of Transportation Inspector General’s report. The continuing investigation, undertaken at the direction of the Transportation Subcommittee on Appropriations, finds that the project’s initial $2.5 billion price tag now mounts to $12.6 billion and could grow even higher.
- House Appropriations Committee
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Gov. Mitt Romney said Friday he will commission an independent review of the massive $14.6 billion highway project known as the Big Dig to determine if taxpayers have been overcharged.
Government agencies' audits of the problem-plagued project lack credibility and may even be hindering the work of lead contractor Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the governor indicated.
- cnn.com
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A Boston Globe investigation of Bechtel's blueprints of the most expensive civil engineering project in US history to build a highway underneath the city, shows that the company forgot to include the Fleet Center during the planning. The mistake was discovered in 1997 and cost just under a million dollars to fix.
A year-long investigation of the "Big Dig," or Boston Central Artery project, by the Globe published in February 2003, showed that $1.1 billion or two-thirds of the cost-overruns alone are tied to the mistakes of Bechtel and its jointhttp://www.boston.com/globe/metro/packages/bechtel) "Yet, even as Bechtel's errors helped drive up the Big Dig's cost, the company never paid for any of its mistakes. Instead, it profited," wrote the newspaper. "To date, Bechtel has received more than $264 million beyond what its original contracts called for, in part because Bechtel received additional money to fix its errors, records show." - Pratap Chatterjee
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And there's more - so much more - to know about Bechtel... Bechtel Wins Iraq War Contracts Bechtel's Friends in High Places
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