2014 Dickinson, ND Demolition Derby-Chain Class Pt. 4
The final part of the chain and bang heat at Dickinson, ND #39;s 2014 demolition derby during Roughrider Days. Recorded July 4, 2014.
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2014 Dickinson, ND Demolition Derby-Heat 1
The first heat at Dickinson, ND #39;s 2014 demolition derby during Roughrider Days. Recorded July 4, 2014.
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Final demolition begins at Rocky Point Park
Demolition has begun at the former Rocky Point amusement park to make way for a coastal state park.
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Baina Beach illegal slums Demolition slides
Hutments within CRZ / HTL Zone Vasco da Gama, Goa http://joegoauk-pointofview.blogspot.com/2014/07/baina-beach-illegal-slums-demolition.html.
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Demolition: monster eats building
Filmed by Paul Indigo. Demolition of buildings on Eastgate in Leeds, UK, to make way for the new, Victoria Gate development.
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Innerbelt Bridge, Explosive Demolition
Explosives brought down the structurally unstable Innerbelt Bridge in downtown Cleveland this morning.
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The explosive demolition of the structurally unsound Innerbelt Bridge.
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Demolition of Sir John Carling Building
Controlled implosion of the Sir John Carling Building, former headquarters of Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, in Ottawa, Canada on Sunday, July 13, 2014.
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Troy
The City Council has turned over records of its ongoing investigation of two demolition projects to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA requested records regarding the emergency demolition of 4-6-8-10 King St. last year, during which Bombers Burrito Bar remained open at 2 King St., and the ongoing demolition work at the King Fuels site in South Troy, City Council President Rodney Wiltshire said.
At each location, the threat of asbestos contamination has been brought up during the questioning of witnesses.
"It vindicates and validates what we're doing," Wiltshire said about the federal agency's interest in the events.
The EPA received transcripts and recordings of testimony given by various city officials, contractors and property owners before the City Council since April, Wiltshire said.
"The agency does not comment or provide information on ongoing or potentially ongoing investigations," said Elias Rodriguez, a spokesman for the EPA in its regional office in New York City.
All of the council's records for its hearings were forwarded to the federal agency after Bill Dunne, the commissioner of planning and economic development, testified in June, Wiltshire said.
Dunne also is executive director of the Troy Local Development Corp. which owns the King Fuels site.
The EPA is the second federal agency to look into events regarding the emergency demolition of 4-6-8-10 King St. last year and the demolition work ongoing at the King Fuels site in South Troy. The FBI interviewed former City Engineer Russ Reeves earlier this year regarding the two projects.
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The abandoned Milwaukee Die Casting plant's legacy of toxic chemical contamination is being fully revealed this year in its demolition a cleanup that could cost former operators as much as $10 million, federal and state environmental officials said.
Much of the expense will come from properly disposing of building debris and soil soaked with hydraulic fluids containing polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, at the former manufacturing plant on the city's north side.
The toxic chemicals also were found in soil north and east of the old factory, near the Milwaukee River, and in a storm sewer manhole and pipe draining to the river. Storm sewers were disconnected and cleaned in 2013 in preparation for this year's work.
This is not the first time Milwaukee Die Casting's 40-plus years of producing aluminum and zinc parts for automotive and small-engine manufacturers is being overshadowed by news of the pollution it left behind.
The closed factory gained notoriety in 2007, a decade after metal casting ended, when PCBs were dislodged from a city sewer by an unsuspecting cleaning crew. The chemicals flowed downstream to the Jones Island sewage treatment plant.
PCBs contaminated tons of Milorganite fertilizer made at the plant, including thousands of pounds that already had been distributed for free to public recreational fields throughout Milwaukee County. The incident cost the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District nearly $5 million.
In 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined the factory at 4132 N. Holton St. was "an imminent and substantial threat to public health and the environment." Two companies affiliated with past operators Pharmacia LLC and Fisher Controls International LLC agreed to pay for the cleanup.
As concrete slabs of old floors are lifted this month for disposal, the work is revealing previously undisclosed tunnels beneath the building housing sewer and water pipes, electric lines and hydraulic fluid lines and more PCBs, said Steve Mueller, a hydrogeologist with the state Department of Natural Resources' remediation and redevelopment program. An extensive tunnel network had been documented in company records dating from the building's construction in 1952 and completion of an addition in 1964.
Tunnels are six feet wide and 10 feet deep. Water and fluids that collected in the tunnels drained to an outdoor sump northeast of the building, toward the river. The sump drained to a sanitary sewer. Those connections were blocked in 2008, under an MMSD order.
Another unexpected discovery in demolition was that ceiling tiles absorbed so much PCBs over the years that many of the panels had to be separated from cleaner debris for disposal out of state as a hazardous waste, Mueller said.
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