Mike's Completed NHDOT Five Year Inspection On The Brattleboro-Hinsdale Bridge II

Hindale/Brattleboro Bridge: NHDOT Abandons Inspections Activities On Brat Bridge, As It Is too Damaged To Continue

Grave consequences to Hinsdale!!!

Inspection was way less than 1/4 completed when abandoned.



( I took this picture yesterday of the inspection area from the Connecticut River at about 7 pm)

Just packed up and left. 

Bridge inspection fraud and corruption was going for decades!

Mike's Completed NHDOT Five Year Inspection On The Brattleboro-Hinsdale Bridge

Obviously I took more than one picture at some hot spots. Another tranche is on the way. 

They only acceptable solution with this massive amount of rusting, sand blast everything and replace what is unacceptable, then repaint it.  

Remember, we can't see anything on the far sides of the gussets and bracing. There could be much more damage that what we can see...  

Hinsdale NH Is In A Gigantic Bridge Emergency!!!!

Our main artery to Brattleboro is cut off including emergency assistance between towns, hospitals, ambulances, jobs and I 91. The drive around to get to Brattleboro is going to take upwards of 45 minutes. This drastically increased burdened is going to be felt mostly by the poor and weak.

I'll be taking pictures of the most involved areas after 5 pm when worked has stopped. 

I really feel sorry I couldn't stop these troubles for Hinsdale and the surrounding community. I tried as hard as I could to prevent this.  

Bridge Angel: Grossly Failed Bridge Inspection-Corruption-Facing A Year Shutdown Of Our Bridge

NH Head Bridge Engineer

Mr. Boodey,

I hear the Brattleboro- Hinsdale route 119 bridge is in near a state of collapse. Within a day of the startup of the inspection, they discovered massive damage to the members and cross arms underneath the deck. Right where all those terrible vibrations are.

So a contractor is doing the inspection today and in the recent past the NHDOT have done the shoddy inspections. You absolutely know this kind of damage takes years to develop...especially the perilous condition in recent years. That bridge has been unsafe for over 5 years and NHDOT has been submitting fraudulent bridge inspection. It is obviously corrupt and fraudulent bridge inspections being done by the NHDOT for political reasons. This should be referred to the to the NH Attorney General. I saved lives with my campaign on this bridge. You and your agency are a disgrace to your profession!!! I understand we a facing a refurbishment to the tune of a bridge shutdown for months, to a half year, a year or more?     

We need a emergency/expedited rescheduling of the new bridge build. We need new construction to start right now !!!

Sincerely,

Mike Mulligan 

Hinsdale, NH

ANO: Garbage Plant Trips Again Over Weekend

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ANO: What A Garbage Plant Looks Like Within Weeks Of Being Cleared With The Worst Plant In The USA

Reposted from 6/18

June 25

Unbelievable: They shutdown or tripped again!!! No event report today. My guess is they shut themselves down without scramming. 

June 22

68% power. Seems a bit of a slowdown with the power increase.. What is broken now? 

June 21

65% looking more like a normal startup.

Confused ANO with Grand Gulf. ANO didn't have a 50 day outage. Sorry.

June 20

40%

Update June 19

ANO stated up and at 2% today.

They are beating the hell out of their plants. ANO is already in a startup. At one point is the NRC going to say says shutdown and carefully think about your erratic operations.  

Welcome to the trump's NRC. Well, welcome to the utilities' NRC? 

***Makes A Mockery Out The NRC's ROP. 

Obviously the plant was never ready for startup after their prolonged outage, and worst, the NRC didn't know about it. This has just got to be a world record. The fastest a plant has ever been cleared of the worst record in the nation and they are now on the road to get a special inspection over erratic power operation.  

May 16 Startup from 50 day outage(very long outage)

May 17 Reactor trip

May 22 Reactor startup

June 4 2018: Arkansas Nuclear One and its over 900 employees got some great news Thursday when the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) hosted an afternoon meeting to go over the plant’s 2017 assessment.

Kriss Kennedy, NRC regional administrator for Region IV, told the audience that after more than three years of hard work by staff and employees, ANO improved its performance and addressed several performance issues that got them into an increased regulatory oversight.

June 13 Reactor Trip

June 15 Reactor startup 

June 17 reactor trip with serious complications 

Troubled ANO 1: Stuck At 15% For Two Days And Their Recent Scram

Sounds like really poor training and not enough simulator time. 

Power Reactor	Event Number: 53459
Facility: ARKANSAS NUCLEAR Region: 4     State: AR Unit: [1] [] [] RX Type: [1] B&W-L-LP,[2] CE NRC Notified By: KEVIN CASEY HQ OPS Officer: ANDREW WAUGH	Notification Date: 06/16/2018 Notification Time: 15:56 [ET] Event Date: 06/16/2018 Event Time: 00:00 [CDT] Last Update Date: 06/16/2018
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) - RPS ACTUATION - CRITICAL 50.72(b)(3)(iv)(A) - VALID SPECIF SYS ACTUATION	Person (Organization): NICK TAYLOR (R4DO) BO PHAM (IRD) MICHAEL F. KING (NRR EO)

Unit

SCRAM Code

RX Crit

Initial PWR

Initial RX Mode

Current PWR

Current RX Mode

1

M/R

Y

2

Startup

0

Hot Standby

Event Text

MANUAL REACTOR TRIP DURING STARTUP "At 1121 CDT on June 16, 2018, Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 1 (ANO-1) performed a manual reactor trip due to a Turbine Bypass valve failing open on reactor startup. At the time, ANO-1 was in Mode 2 at approximately 2 percent power. "The failed Turbine Bypass valve resulted in an overcooling event and the Overcooling Emergency Operating Procedure (EOP) was entered. Main Steam Line Isolation (MSLI) automatic actuation occurred on 2 of the 4 channels of Emergency Feedwater Initiation and Control during the overcooling event in the 'B' Steam Generator. The remaining channels of MSLI were manually actuated by the control room staff from the control room. Overcooling was terminated after the closure of the Main Steam Isolation Valve (MSIV) and reactor coolant parameters were stabilized as directed by the Overcooling EOP. Additionally, Gland Sealing Steam was lost to the main turbine due to the closure of the 'B' Steam Generator MSIV and Loss of Condenser Vacuum Abnormal Operating Procedure was entered. "This is a 4-hour non-emergency 10 CFR 50.72 (b)(2)(iv)(B) notification due to a Reactor Protection System actuation (scram) and an 8-hour non-emergency 10 CFR 50.72 (b)(3)(iv)(A) notification for safety system actuation." All control rods fully inserted into the core during the trip. Heat removal is via the Atmospheric Dump Control valves to atmosphere. The NRC Resident Inspector has been notified. The licensee also notified the State of Arkansas.

Normal "In-Depth" Hinsdale, Brattleboro Bridge Inspection: I Don't Think So

Update

I had a talk with the boss of this operation. It is not a NHDOT operation. The NHDOT contracted these inspection guys. These contractor guy don't come here often. I watched the barge inspectors for awhile. I watched them knocking off huge pieces of rust. The guys in the cherry picker stopped their work and called over to their boss. I image because of too much rust preventing them from doing a thorough inspection. He yelled back, "just get the work done". I also talked to the on the road boss. I talked about the abnormal vibration. He said he never felt anything like that. He predicted, a lot of work will have to be done before this is done. 

     

***Come on, when was the last time we seen a week of lane changes? I have never seen that. Usually it is a special inspection platform moved around underneath the bridge without lane changes.

I guess this is a answer to me? At the least, this was upgraded to a in-depth inspection on my call. The NHDOT must have got the experts to visit the bridge shortly after I made a complaint. I wonder if they'd seen something abnormal jacking it up to a in-depth inspection?       

This will get us to 2020 I think. It would look horrendous to the NHDOT if after this inspection the bridge collapsed or the bridge had to be shutdown. We got mostly idiots living in Hinsdale. Would I be a hero or railroaded out of town if the bridge was shutdown for a prolonged period of time? 

Be prepared for some horrible traffic backups???  

Hinsdale, Brattleboro bridge inspections expected to cause traffic woes starting Monday

By Sentinel Staff
Jun 24, 2018 Updated 15 hrs ago
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The N.H. Department of Transportation has announced that an inspection of the Route 119 bridges crossing the Connecticut River between Hinsdale and Brattleboro will occur this week.

In an email Thursday, department spokesman William H. "Bill" Boynton characterized the work as a "regular in-depth inspection looking at all aspects of the bridge, including substructure and superstructure."

The inspection is slated to start Monday and continue through Friday, resulting in lane closures as necessary for up to five days from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., according to the release. Warning signs and people with flags will be employed to alert drivers.

If possible, motorists are encouraged to seek alternate routes.

The release also notes that the lane width will be 11 feet during the course of the inspection, and that the work could be delayed in the event of bad weather. In that case, the inspection would resume as soon as weather allows.

Jan Anderson, executive secretary in the Brattleboro Town Manager's Office, wrote in an email Friday that the traffic lights at the lower end of Main Street will be put on flash mode during the work hours.

"NHDOT is fully aware of the traffic concerns and will be monitoring the situation closely," she wrote.

The Charles Dana and Anna Hunt Marsh bridges date back to 1920, and were rehabilitated in 1988. One bridge connects Hinsdale to Hinsdale Island, and the other bridge connects the island to Brattleboro.

The Pennsylvania truss-style bridges are considered functionally obsolete, meaning they're outdated, don't meet current design standards and have height and weight restrictions.

The bridges are set to be replaced by a new, steel girder bridge downstream, with construction likely to begin in spring 2020, state officials said in January.