Crews Finish Blasting Work for New Approach to Bridge

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PROSPECT - Crews have completed the blasting that has created a new U.S. Route 1 approach to the bridge being built across the Penobscot River. The concrete barriers that have protected the existing road from the blast site will be removed later this week.

Blasting ended earlier this month and crews from Lou Silver in Veazie have begun installing drainage in the ledge cut and grading the road base. The blasting has removed more than 158,000 cubic yards, or about 281,000 tons, of rock from the site since the operation began in October. An estimated 70 percent of that has been used on the bridge project.

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Crews Finish Blasting Work for New Approach to Bridge

The process has left a granite outcropping located between the newly blasted approach to ...

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