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...other cases - the Mianus River Bridge in Connecticut (three dead in 1983) or the Silver Bridge, spanning the Ohio River between Ohio and West Virginia (46 dead in 1967) - the cause is far more subtle. The former was triggered by metal fatigue in a single steel pin: when it finally failed, the loss of support transferred excess stress on other parts, which couldn't handle it, failing in turn. The latter was finally traced, again, to a single piece of metal, which had been forged with a tiny, unnoticed crack that weakened further with corrosion...
Consider the state of things in 1983. Last week, in Greenwich, Conn., a 100-ft.-long slice of an Interstate bridge fell away, dropping three motorists 70 ft. to their deaths in the Mianus River. In the Southwest, melting snow and bureaucrats' miscalculation produced a deluge: Colorado River water was gushing through dam spillways at almost three times the normal rates, flooding towns in California and Arizona, causing $12.2 million in damage and threatening to rise higher. In both cases, behind the sadness of immediate events was a niggling sense of disillusion with U.S. engineering know-how: Glen Canyon...
...diameter that, he said, "is missing or sheared off." The accident has already prompted unscheduled bridge inspections and maintenance in several states. As well it should: the Federal Government says that of 564,499 U.S. bridges, 21% are "obsolete" and 23% are "structurally deficient." Officially, the Mianus River Bridge was neither...
That night Tweed left Greenwich?for he knew better than to remain there longer?by way of the Mianus Valley. He was driven across country to Tarrytown, N. Y. where a tug was in waiting. This tug took Tweed to the steamer in lower New York...
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