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Contractor makes progress on new border wall in New Mexico
Fort Worth Star Telegram ^
| August 17, 2018
| The Associated Press
Posted on 08/17/2018 8:28:36 AM PDT by BeauBo
SANTA TERESA, N.M. Construction workers have completed more than half of a new barrier along a desolate stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in southern New Mexico... U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials confirmed this week that more than 8,100 panels spanning more than 11 miles (18 kilometers) had been constructed as of Aug. 8.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderwall; santateresa
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This 20 mile segment running West from El Paso, is well ahead of schedule - more than half done, in just under a third of their schedule (120 of their 390 days). This 120 day period included the bulk of the monsoon season, which is the main seasonal risk to the schedule.
In the easy, flat and open terrain there, that team has been running about a mile every 11 days.
The big money of this last year's wall funding will go to the Rio Grande Valley in Southern Texas. They are still in the contracting process, and likely won't award task orders until after Christmas. I believe the money is good for five years, so that should not be a problem.
Here you can see the old style Normandy barriers (vehicle barrier), that are being replaced by bollards with anti-climb plate (pedestrian barrier).
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:28:36 AM PDT
by
BeauBo
To: CedarDave
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:30:27 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: BeauBo
Sweet, hopefully our reopened steel factories can keep pumping out these segments.
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:31:13 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: BeauBo
well ahead of schedule - more than half done...in just under a third of their schedule time...Nice 11 miles of WIN.
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:33:03 AM PDT
by
spokeshave2
(WWG1WGA.....Where we go one we go all....WWG1WGA.)
To: BeauBo
We should post signs on the Mexican sign warning that falls from that height can break both of your legs.
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:34:56 AM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Lurkinanloomin
That does not look like thirty feet to me.
I am suspect!
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:36:10 AM PDT
by
chris37
("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
To: Army Air Corps
11 of almost 2000 miles is a start. How much traffic does this segment in New Mexico see?
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:36:15 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: BeauBo
That photo Cheers Me Up ,
Thanks!
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:38:14 AM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY)
To: BeauBo; Chode; Squantos; snooter55; GailA; BunnySlippers; ransomnote; thesligoduffyflynns; ...
MAGA !!!
Build that Wall as fast as YAll can!!!!! Thank You President Trump.
I know that this wont stop all of them but it will certainly slow down the masses of A$$E$ flowing across Our Border.
PING!!!!!
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:39:34 AM PDT
by
mabarker1
(congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
To: chris37
That construction cone does give you the impression the wall is only 12 or 15 feet high, doesn’t it?
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:40:25 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: BeauBo
where is the concertina wire?
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:40:25 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Consensus isn't science.)
To: BeauBo
This 20 mile segment running West from El Paso,...
Beto O'Rourke is deeply saddened.
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:41:12 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: chris37
That does not look like thirty feet to me.
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Does this help?
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Here you can see the old style Normandy barriers (vehicle barrier),
that are being replaced by bollards with anti-climb plate (pedestrian barrier).
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:43:13 AM PDT
by
deport
To: chris37
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:44:51 AM PDT
by
Zathras
To: chris37
Chris disregard my post. I got the vehicle barrier part messed up.
Take care.
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:48:07 AM PDT
by
deport
To: chris37
After a second look, you may be right, I’d guess 18-20 feet.
Might only break one leg..
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:49:03 AM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Magnum44
You can easily see this on Google Earth.
You start at the Rio Grande river in El Paso and follow the border west. Very soon there is nothing but heavy duty desert to the south that continues westward seemingly forever. There is nothingness.
By making the wall only twenty miles long it is extended far into the nothingess beyond the paths of traffic and roads
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:49:10 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12) Sanctuary is Sedition)
To: chris37
That does not look like thirty feet to me. Maybe the other 18 feet are underground.
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:49:31 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
To: spokeshave2
How long did it take to build a mile of the intercontinental RR across Nebraska?
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:49:58 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(no spelchek, no problem...)
To: chris37
Look at the Traffic Cone vs The Wall. A Tall Cone is 36. How many of those Cones height are in the Wall ? I come up with 9*3=27. And My eyes arent the best anymore.
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posted on
08/17/2018 8:50:34 AM PDT
by
mabarker1
(congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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