Anthony Wayne Bridge (Ohio) to close in 2013 for 2 years

Toledo’s Anthony Wayne Bridge will be closed to all traffic for two years, likely to start sometime in 2013, as part of a three-year, $50 million overhaul of the 81-year-old structure by the Ohio Department of Transportation. The fundamental main-span appearance of the bridge — which carries State Rts. 2, 51, and 65 over the [...]

Corrosion threat on Ohio bridge deck discovered

Grout packed into bundles of steel cables that compress the Veterans’ Glass City Skyway’s concrete deck sections together may contain elevated levels of salts that would cause those cables to corrode prematurely, the grout’s manufacturer has warned the Ohio Department of Transportation. The I-280 bridge over the Maumee River, which opened five years ago, is [...]

$520 million Marcellus Lateral pipeline project in doubt

A $520 million pipeline project thought to have the potential to support 2,500 Ohio construction jobs might be dead. The Ohio Power Siting Board, the body that regulates major utility projects in Ohio, rejected the application for the Marcellus Lateral Pipeline more than a year ago. Kinder Morgan, a pipeline developer, owner and operator out [...]

Safety a priority with pipeline operators

MOUNT VERNON — When the natural gas pipeline in Morgan County, Ohio exploded recently, destroying two homes, it immediately raised fears: Could it happen here? There are interstate transmission lines in Knox County. Who owns them and are they properly maintained? The cause of the Morgan County blast has not yet been determined. Matt Butler, [...]

How safe are Dayton’s buildings…No group regularly checks structural integrity of buildings.

DAYTON — Despite the dozens of aging buildings in the Dayton, Ohio area and recent cases of dangerously crumbling exteriors, there is no group regularly checking the structural integrity of downtown buildings. “In Ohio, the laws are very much geared toward property rights for individual owners,” said Maury Wyckoff, building regulation manager for Montgomery County. [...]

Coal scrubbers are corroding

Ohio pollution controls are showing wear after as little as a year. Coal-fired power plants across the country are being checked for corrosion problems on billions of dollars’ worth of equipment that is supposed to cut air pollution. And the results from three power companies in Ohio show that the  scrubbers are corroding at a [...]

‘Aggressive’ corrosion eats at power-plant scrubbers

When American Electric Power installed a pollution scrubber at its Cardinal plant along the Ohio River in 2007, it was supposed to last 25 years. About a year later, an inspection found that something was eating through its steel walls. “There were some areas in the tank vessel itself that ultimately corroded all the way [...]

Rush to Replace Aging Natural Gas Lines

Natural gas lines are usually safe, but when they go bad the consequences can prove deadly. Buildings reduced to rubble and entire neighborhoods in flames. In much of the tri-state there is a rush to replace the type of aging gas lines that can fail with tragic consequences. Fairport Harbor a picturesque resort town on [...]

U.S. Nuclear Regulator Lets Industry Help With the Fine Print

In the fall of 2001, inspectors with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission were so concerned about possible corrosion at Ohio’s Davis Besse Nuclear Power Stationthat they prepared an emergency order to shut it down for inspection. But, according to a report from the NRC inspector general, senior officials at the agency held off – in part because they [...]