#infrastucture

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[swede1952]

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5 January 2025

Did you know that the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began on this day in 1933. It was completed on 19 April 1937. That makes the bridge about 88 years old. I've been over and under the bridge, but not in five or six decades. It is golden bridge, across the golden straight, in the golden state. I wonder about the age of such manmade constructions and what it takes to keep them safe. I'd driven across the I35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis several times a few years ago. It was only about 40 years old when it collapsed a few years later.

"Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves." - Martin O'Malley

[fenrislorsrai]

Congress Includes $600 Million For Jackson Water System In Omnibus Bill

Dec. 20th 2022- The City of Jackson is on the cusp of an unprecedented $600 million to alleviate the water crisis from the congressional omnibus bill.

The City of Jackson is on the cusp of receiving an unprecedented $600 million in federal funds to alleviate the water crisis and rebuild significant portions of the drinking water system. U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., announced that the congressional year-end funding omnibus bill will include the enormous grant exclusively for the City of Jackson.

Of the funds that will come to Jackson if Congress approves the omnibus bill, $150 million is designated for “technical assistance,” and $450 million is designated for “capital projects.” Previously, a U.S. Department of Justice order detailed the many critical infrastructure projects needed to repair Jackson’s water systems, including large-scale winterization and automation improvements, as well as stabilizing the system’s drained staff reserves with a “minimum appropriate staffing” contract.

The congressional omnibus bill is the major year-end spending package that Congress must pass by the end of the week to avert a federal government shutdown. Jackson’s funds occupy fewer than two pages of the 4,000-page, $1.7-trillion bill. But if passed, those two pages will authorize a majority of the funds officials have requested to restore the 82%-Black capital city’s drinking-water system.

Jackson’s water-system woes reached their nadir this year when heavy rains and a flooding reservoir overwhelmed the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant. A year after a winter freeze took the City’s water system down for a full month, Jackson residents spent weeks under boil-water notices; the situation required federal intervention and a state of emergency to stabilize the system.

For non-americans, Jackson is the capital of the state of Mississippi. And spent more than a month with NO DRINKABLE WATER.

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Majority Black City In Faces Water Lead Levels Higher Than Flint Michigan

Stories like this illustrate what environmental racism looks like, and why the U.S. Congress needs to stop playing games and get an infra...

Stories like this illustrate what environmental racism looks like, and why the U.S. Congress needs to stop playing games and get an infrastructure bill passed immediately.

[libemo]

Hsinchu City, Taiwan. 2013

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In 1987 an estimated 800,000 people flocked to the the Golden Gate Bridge for its 50th anniversary

[mattpayton]

What Chinatown tenants can teach us about saving "affordable housing"

[jkanelis]

Waiting for monstrous project

When you mention the word “infrastructure,” there is a decent chance you’re talking about traffic. And when you mention “traffic,” particularly in North Texas, you well might be thinking of US Highway 380.  You might wonder: What do these elements have to do with each other? The Texas Department of Transportation is fixin’ to hopefully correct the traffic problems by working on alternatives to…