Exit stage right
Crews use a large crane to remove a walkway section from the top of the SR 520 pontoon casting basin gate. Once the walkway and gate is removed, and the tide waters get high enough, crews will tow six pontoons from the basin into the Grays Harbor. Photo taken April 28, 2013.
Progress continues on the SR 520 Pontoon Construction Project, as the second cycle of new pontoons left the Aberdeen casting basin overnight April 28 and 29, 2013. The late-night timing coincided with the favorable high tide needed for float-out.
In the second cycle, crews built three longitudinal pontoons, two supplemental stability pontoons and one cross pontoon. The 360-foot-long longitudinal pontoons are the backbone of the new SR 520 floating bridge being built on Lake Washington; the supplemental pontoons provide stability and flotation, and the cross pontoons cap the bridge on the east and west ends. Crews will build a total of six cycles of new pontoons in Aberdeen.
Exit stage right
Crews use a large crane to remove a walkway section from the top of the SR 520 pontoon casting basin gate. Once the walkway and gate is removed, and the tide waters get high enough, crews will tow six pontoons from the basin into the Grays Harbor. Photo taken April 28, 2013.
Progress continues on the SR 520 Pontoon Construction Project, as the second cycle of new pontoons left the Aberdeen casting basin overnight April 28 and 29, 2013. The late-night timing coincided with the favorable high tide needed for float-out.
In the second cycle, crews built three longitudinal pontoons, two supplemental stability pontoons and one cross pontoon. The 360-foot-long longitudinal pontoons are the backbone of the new SR 520 floating bridge being built on Lake Washington; the supplemental pontoons provide stability and flotation, and the cross pontoons cap the bridge on the east and west ends. Crews will build a total of six cycles of new pontoons in Aberdeen.