cofferdam

• "The redesign of the cofferdam, because of the unexpectedly high water level of the dam during the early construction period, and the worse-that-expected geotechnical conditions at the abstraction works, was the main delay in the completion date," said Claassens. —  Engineering News | Home
• On Tuesday, workers for Slayden Construction of Stayton started driving into place sections of a cofferdam that will hold back the Rogue River as backhoes and workers equipped with jackhammers start pounding the 88-year-old concrete structure into rubble. —  Merced Sun-Star: front
• Construction of a cofferdam will keep fish from swimming over the dam for the next three weeks, but after that salmon and steelhead will be able to swim freely past the site, as they did before the dam was built in 1921. —  The Seattle Times
• On Tuesday, workers for Slayden Construction of Stayton dumped truckloads of rocks and gravel into the river downstream of the dam and looked over the dry riverbed upstream as they started building a cofferdam that will hold back the water while backhoes and workers equipped with jackhammers start pounding the 88-year-old concrete structure into rubble.
• UI officials are wrapping up a project that left a cofferdam in the Iowa River during last summer's flooding, that might have forced waters higher. —  The Daily Iowan - Online Edition

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