Posted on 08/28/2015 2:10:05 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
A core sample pulled from the concrete of the Cocoli Locks where cracks and leaks have appeared does not bode well for the Panama Canal expansion project, which is on a strict deadline for completion in April 2016.
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I suggest that Panama may return the canal ownership to the United States. The United States will then fix the problem at US taxpayer expense. Then, some malignant DIMocRAT president will give it back to them for free.
This was given free to Panama... we damn well better NOT be paying for it.
A smart administration would have offered Panama about $500 mill to design it to make sure that our CVNs could easily transit the canal.
I have read it and have spent a lot of time in and around it.
Initially, there were some Panamanian suppliers who wanted to try and operate some commissaries for the non-American workforce. They did such a lousy job we booted them.
On the construction side, they had nothing we wanted and we wouldn’t have trusted them to deliver on anything.
How would ships go through a dam, without another series of locks?
A native of New Orleans once mentioned that much of the city was built on altered land filled with compacted cotton bails. In any event much of Louisiana is subsiding former marshland without silt deposits to compensate for compaction.
I did concrete testing for an engineering co. back in the 80’s. The good old boy drivers delivering the mix to the job sites didn’t care about specs and were always wanting to add more and more water to the load to discharge it quicker.
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