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Article: Not earthshaking; Parking-ramp construction: Main Street businesses don't feel buildings shake
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- March 27, 2001
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There was no further damage reported to four Main Street
buildings Monday after construction resumed on the Fourth Street
parking ramp.
A huge drill turned the soil and crews injected a number of
concrete piles into the ground on the site of the parking ramp
construction project. Meanwhile, engineering consultants took
seismographic readings to track earth movement in the area.
Rich Russell, building-services manager for the city, said there
was no movement recorded and no shaking reported at any of the Main
Street buildings.
"It seems to be going fairly well, so far," he said. The
construction is expected to be completed by Thursday.
It was the construction process that was blamed for ...