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Engineers with the Maine Dept. of Transportation refer to July 11, 2003, as “Black Friday.” It was the day they received a call informing them that an inspection of the Waldo-Hancock Bridge over the Penobscot River had revealed crucial strand breakages in a suspension cable.
While keeping the old steel bridge on U.S. Route 1 temporarily functional with a complex supplementary cable installation, MDOT now needed a fast-track process for its long-planned replacement (ENR 11/10/03 p. 24). “Our goal was to pour concrete by December of 2003” for a new bridge, recalls David Cole, MDOT commissioner.