Dale Orlando holds a Masters degree in community psychology and organizational development. Career successes include grants writing, television production and web development. Polaris Production LLC can assist fund raising in environmental issues, health and human services contact http://www.PolarisProduction.com/consult-form.html
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Who decided that the best way to ventilate a tunnel ceiling was to suspend the basement floor over our heads? A 3-ton concrete section of the Central Artery Tunnel connector ceiling crashed onto Milena Del Valle's car while she and her husband were traveling to Logan Airport on Monday night. By Friday we learned that over 300 problem areas exist with connector bolts that suspend the concrete slabs overhead. The CAT cost taxpayers over 14.6 billion dollars by 2006. Shoddy work for such a hefty pricetag. Who benefited from the largest public works program that has commuters fleeing for safety?
An abundantly stocked recreation pond, Sluice Pond is a 50 acre body of water with approximately 165 homes that abut the pond. Sluice Pond Association success at raising funds for eradicating weeds from the pond spurred inquiries from pond landowners throughout Massachusetts and New England. After a formal evaluation of the pond weeds produced an estimate for treatment costs, fund raising was necessary to rid the pond of weeds in a manner that would protect the fish, wildlife and recreation.
The Central Artery Tunnel (CA/T) video footage and documents show more than anchor bolt problems in Bostons Big Dig concrete. Contaminated concrete from recycled excavate was used in 3,800 million cubic yards of concrete construction. The CA/T documents should be examined for the chemical properties of the recycled aggregate soil and the concrete tested for corrosion and expansion contaminants.
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