Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Butuminous Rectification. Very occassionally I am enlightened here at the State House. In response to a call to MassHighway about empty 18-wheeler trucks bouncing on a section of bridge and making loud noises, I got an email back from our laison. In addition to responding to my concerns within twenty minutes, he also put two new vocabulary words into context:
MassHighway is looking into this for you. Here's what they found:
In the left lane northbound the bituminous concrete has severely shoved up to form some large heaves (see picture). Adjacent to the heaves is a telephone manhole. The bituminous concrete collar around the manhole is spalling. When large trucks go over this area they bounce, thus the loud noise. MassHighway is now scheduling the work to be completed by its bridge deck repair contractor, NEL Corp. This should be fixed within a few weeks or so.
Can one's life be spalling out of control do you suppose? Or if someone on the cell phone is breaking up, can you say, "Heh you're spalling."
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