Pile Contractors Builds the World’s Largest Man Made Log Jam to Control Mother Nature
Reported From: APE Headquarters (WA)
The Hoh River, on the peninsula of Washington State, drains an average of 152 inches of rain a year from the Hoh Temperate Rain Forest to the Pacific Ocean. Every year the river damages the roadway linking Port Angeles with Aberdeen with some years worse than others.
Pile Contractors has a very tight working window based upon Salmon runs and workable weather days and with their years of experience in foundations, they have the ingredients to make it happen. Three Model 200 Driver/Extractors-one of which they own-utilize 100% readily biodegradable vegetable hydraulic oil. The hammers are driving the sheets, soldier piles and log jam H-beam anchors with their Berminghammer single acting impact hammer driving the anchors to final tip elevation.
Many countries around the world will be following the performance of these log jams over the next few seasons with the hope that these measures will reduce maintenance in remote locations such as this while benefiting the habitat.
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