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King County finishes up seismic retrofits on 115 county bridges Watch this video clip (Real Media) Length: (2:50) Watch this video clip (Windows Media) Length: (2:50) Narrator Says: Work is just wrapping up on a seismic retrofit of the Green River
Gorge bridge, not only bolstering the safety of this particular bridge
in the event of an earth-quake, but also marking a major county
milestone. And so, making sure that people have access to emergency services and food. Really basic things, and then fairly shortly after an earthquake event would be able to begin resuming their normal lives is really important. Narrator Says: Narrator Says: And when our bridge engineers went out immediately following the event to check and inspect those bridges, what we found is that they suffered very little effects as a result of the earthquake. So that, to us, was a confirmation that this seismic retrofit program is doing exactly what it should be doing, which is preserving the bridges as making them very much more resistant to the effects of earthquakes. |
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