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Swamp Thing.(H. James and Sons, Inc. to build bypass for Wisconsin Department of Transportation )
Western Builder, October, 2006 by Gantenbein, Barry
By Barry Gantenbein, Editor, Western Builder H. James & Sons, Inc. digs as deep as 28 feet to move 600,000 yards of marsh in Burlington An excavator buries its boom 16-feet deep into a marsh, pulling out a bucket full of wet, black glop and drops it into a waiting haul truck for transport off site.
At the same time, another haul truck brings a load of sand to the site, and dumps it so that a dozer can push the sand into the space where thick muck had been minutes earlier. In this way, the marsh truck crew for H. James & Sons, Inc., Fennimore, Wis., excavates a peat bog as part of the construction of the Burlington Bypass. The 5.7-mile bypass is being constructed east of Burlington, Wis., from the Highway 36/83 interchange northeast of the...
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