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Caltrans discusses plan for Bay Bridge pier implosion [Video]
Nov 04, 2015· Caltrans says it's pushing the implosion of an underwater pier of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge back a week to November 14. The agency spent a long time Tuesday morning detailing what to expect on demolition day....
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Crowded roadways and packed buses, trains and ferries are on tap for commuters starting Wednesday night, Aug. 28, 2013 when officials shut down the San FranciscoOakland Bay Bridge to traffic in preparation for a new billion span opening late Monday, Sept. 2 or early Tuesday....
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Implosion of old Bay Bridge support pier set for early ...
Nov 13, 2015· OAKLAND — The implosion of a fivestory underwater pier of the old Bay Bridge is scheduled to occur early Saturday, and the new Bay Bridge will be closed for a ....
Rental compressed air makes a safer implosion ...
Nov 24, 2015· Houston, USA, December 7, 2015: Rental OilFree air compressors create underwater buffer during implosion of pier. The San Francisco Bay being a significant ecological habitat in California, words like explosives and implosion generated concern when they were used to discuss how the 80yearold San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge's 21 piers should be demolished....
Seismic Performance of TwoColumn Bridge Piers with ...
bridge pier incorporating socket connections in a precast cap beam and pipe pin at the bottom of the columns was constructed and subjected to quasistatic cyclic loading until failure....
Caltrans News Release : OLD BAY BRIDGE PIER E3 IMPLOSION ...
The implosion of the old Bay Bridge's largest pier occurred just after sunrise last Saturday, culminating years of planning and coordination with permitting agencies. Hundreds of small charges did their job, causing the concreteandsteel structure to collapse into the voids within the foundation below the bay ....
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Take It To The Bridge, The Bay Bridge (PreDemolition Top ...
While this planned implosion of the old Bay Bridge, that was replaced back in mid2013 with that shiny new Bay Bridge that you seem to see in every other new car commercial, may not be as dramatic as say the implosion/demolition in 1999 of San Francisco's ....
Caltrans Approved for Underwater Pier Implosion at Old Bay ...
Oct 02, 2015· Caltrans announced October 1 that it received environmental approval to use controlled underwater charges and implode Pier E3, the largest of the underwater piers on the Old Bay Bridge....
Caltrans News Release
Caltrans' engineers and environmental team have spent years working closely with resource agencies to determine the best method for demolition of Pier E3. That effort is culminating in permission from more than half a dozen regulatory bodies to use this implosion method on the largest of the Old Bay Bridge....
Demolition of the Bay Bridge to Be Streamed on Saturday ...
Oct 27, 2016· The controlled implosion will take less than 4 seconds and will involve roughly 12,000 pounds of explosives, according to Caltrans....
Plan to implode largest pier of old bay bridge moving ...
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — Plans to demolish the largest pier in the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge using explosives took another step forward Thursday as a bay regulatory commission unanimously ......
Caltrans Prepares to Implode Old Bay Bridge Pier E3 Wood ...
Caltrans Prepares to Implode Old Bay Bridge Pier E3 By Wood Harbinger | Published: November 12, 2015 On Saturday, November 14, 2015, the largest support pier of San Francisco's iconic Old Bay Bridge East Span will be demolished with a controlled, underwater implosion lasting six seconds....
Plan to Implode Largest Pier of Old Bay Bridge Moving Forward
Sep 17, 2015· Plans to demolish the largest pier in the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge using explosives took another step forward today as a bay regulatory commission unanimously granted Caltrans a permit for the project. The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission approval was one of the ......
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Underwater pier detonated on old Bay Bridge early Saturday ...
Caltrans imploded an underwater pier of the old Bay Bridge eastern span at 7:17 Saturday, triggering 22,000 pounds of dynamite to pulverize the upper portion of the structure. Caltrans had ......
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Supplemental Materials and Relevant Articles to the Commission
Supplemental Materials and Relevant Articles to the Commission Commission Mailing March 20, 2015. ... Briefing on the Proposed Dismantling of Pier 3 of the Decommissioned East Span of the San FranciscoOakland Bay Bridge Using Controlled Implosion Method // presentation. Simulation of Demolition Concepts San FranciscoOakland Baky Bridge...
Bay Bridge: Plan to implode largest pier of old span in ...
Sep 17, 2015· Plans to demolish the largest pier in the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge using explosives took another step forward Thursday as a bay ....
Implosion of Bay Bridge Pier a Threat to Bay Water Quality
The implosion of the first pier is scheduled for November. Hundreds of simultaneous explosions are supposed to pulverize the pier, with debris falling into openings in the pier's foundation below the water. The November implosion is planned as a test to determine if explosives can be used to safely remove 21 more Bay Bridge piers....
Watch It Here: The Big Bay Bridge Implosion | News Fix ...
Nov 14, 2015· Update, 9 Saturday: It happened. Caltrans imploded a massive underwater pier from the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge at 7:17 It was a pretty big show see the video above with water geysering up from the 20,000 pounds of high explosives and drivers stopped at the Bay Bridge toll plaza out of their cars climbing on cars to see what they could....
Safety Zone; SFOBB Demolition Safety Zone, San Francisco ...
Jan 21, 2015· The safety zone will encompass the navigable waters of the San Francisco Bay within 100 yards of the SFOBB from Yerba Buena Island to the ``I'' Pier, also known as ``E4'' Pier. The demolition project is necessary to facilitate the completion of the Bay Bridge project....
Dismantling the Bay Bridge Old East Span: Controlled ...
Investigating impacts to benthic sediment quality in the Bay following pier removal via controlled implosion requires a robust baseline of ambient conditions. Baseline sediment quality has been established by the Regional Monitoring Program in San Francisco Bay (RMP). Sediment quality effects were predicted and verified using pre and postimplosion RMP techniques: metals concentrations and...