{"id":4202,"date":"2011-05-06T07:55:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2011-05-06T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:58:35","slug":"crown-point-bridge-construction-site-swamped-by-lake-champlain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/05\/06\/crown-point-bridge-construction-site-swamped-by-lake-champlain\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown Point bridge construction site swamped by Lake Champlain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4203\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/05\/06\/crown-point-bridge-construction-site-swamped-by-lake-champlain\/lake-champlain-bridge-construction-site\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4203\" title=\"lake champlain bridge construction site\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/lake-champlain-bridge-construction-site-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/lake-champlain-bridge-construction-site-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/lake-champlain-bridge-construction-site-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/lake-champlain-bridge-construction-site-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/lake-champlain-bridge-construction-site.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Even as the floodwaters rose through the last week, state and local officials insisted that construction of the Crown Point bridge&#8217;s steel arch would continue at a construction site in Port Henry.<\/p>\n<p>They eventually had to concede that the project was stalled &#8212; or call it swamped, rather &#8212; and these pictures illustrate why.<\/p>\n<p>Flatiron&#8217;s construction site has essentially merged with Lake Champlain, with heavy equipment (and port-o-potties) deep in the water.<\/p>\n<p>The entire Port Henry-Moriah waterfront has been hit devastatingly hard by the rising lake levels, as this next photographs shows.<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4204\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/05\/06\/crown-point-bridge-construction-site-swamped-by-lake-champlain\/port-henry-waterfront-at-dusk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4204\" title=\"port henry waterfront at dusk\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/port-henry-waterfront-at-dusk-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/port-henry-waterfront-at-dusk-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/port-henry-waterfront-at-dusk-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/port-henry-waterfront-at-dusk-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/05\/port-henry-waterfront-at-dusk.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was actually kind of eery yesterday evening, with the lamplights on what is usually a pedestrian pier still lit and glowing far out into the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Bridge construction was slated to be done by October.\u00a0 No word yet on what a reset date might be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as the floodwaters rose through the last week, state and local officials insisted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}