2ewaorr tp ct rpmedia.com publicatontame.php?i=347 1888p= 8p ENR October 17,2016, Renzi Urges Salini Impregilo To Complete Messina Span Mivestsseissct | tensor ceil prime minister, Matteo Ret, to com> | to shows that your papers are in order plete a long stalled! contract to build a | and ean unblock what hasbeen halted for recor-bredking sspension bridge over | 10 years.” Renzi was speaking st the the Messina Stat, berween the mainland | contractor 110th founding anniversary and Sicily ‘elebrations in Mila on Sept 27. But with contractors’ compensation | Group Chief Executive Petro Sabin chims exceeding S785 lionsilinespute | informally accepted Renzi challenge for workbefore the project washultt,pros- | Bur after the celebrations, a spokesman pects for the estimated $4:4-ilion bridge | clarified the company’s postion. “For the ‘exmin shaky Thebridges3300-neter-long | moment, we ae sil tying to get the msingsinwonld benesry 40% longerhan | government to pay the penalty for having Japan’ current world record-holder, the | annulled the contract," he sid Akash Kayo bidge The project loundered three years ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION Next Phase of Passaic River Cleanup To Begin Design ‘Orange and other pesticides during the | potentially responsible paris to negoti= 1960s generated dioxin that contami- | ateadditiona setementsor the cleanup, nated the land and river. The lower 17 | which ic estimated to costS.38 billion. niles of the river are part of the Dia- | _ ‘The cleanup plan, which EPA final~ ‘mond Alkali Superfund stand the EPA | ized in March, zequives the permanent sys 90% ofthe rivers pollution is con- | removal of approximately 24,000 Ib of contrated inthe lower 8.3 miles mercury, 6/600 Ib of PCs, 1,800 Ib of The $165 milion wil py forthe sam- | DD'T and 13 tb of highly toxic dioxin ‘go, when a turnkey contract with the Furoink constretion consortium hit an ‘masse. The nultiemn consortiusa was led by Iimpregilo Sp before its menger swith Sain Sp. Signed in 2006 by state-owned proj cet firm Stretto di Messina Sp. the turkey contract almost immediately was suspended when then-Prime Minister Silvio Berlasconi was ved out of fc. Work resumed in 2009, afer Beshsconis returt, but halted again following his ectoral defeat in late 2011 ‘Under the project’ original contract, Eurolink completed detailed designs by July 2011, supported by Copenhagen based Cont A. But when the new governs axempted to renegoriate the dealin 2012 Eurolink pled out ond invited legal setion that contines to rumble oa. By Pater Reina (CLEANING UP Ts pte aos ras Deonprtet a Super te eace 168 EPA expects clesmup cron to dredge 3.5 nillion cu yd of sediment an then, frm bank to bank; cap the river in the lower portion o isolate any remaining eon- taminaed sediment. Although Occidental Chemical Corp. ino ety dscharge polltantsin> the Passaic River, the company is legally re- sponsible or plltion discharged fc te former Diamond Ala peices mantie- ‘ring plane chat operated from the 19405 10 1950s The itary no anger exists, ad the company that one itis now pare of ‘Occidental Chemical Corp. Erie Moses, spokesman for Occ, sid the com pany is “pleased to have reached an agrec- ‘ment withthe US. EBA.= By Pro Hunter McFarland wn