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Big Dig project managing firm apologizes, considers fund for repairs.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2004
The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 3--Top executives of the company managing the Big Dig, testifying at a packed State House hearing yesterday, apologized for lapses that led to a massive leak in the Interstate 93 northbound tunnel wall on Sept. 15, and agreed to consider the creation of an unusual escrow fund to pay for future leak repairs.
The conciliatory remarks constituted the first admission of a major mistake by Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff since engineering work began on the project two decades ago.
In addition to the apology, Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff chairman John MacDonald said the firm would pay, along with the construction firms involved, for the cost of repairing the wall damaged by the...
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