Gallery
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Late May 2011 — A former warehouse stands ready for demolition on the site of the HPT converter station in Ridgefield, New Jersey.
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June 2011 — With all original structures removed, demolition and construction crews work to clear debris from the converter station site in Ridgefield.
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July 2011 — The converter station site is nearly free of demolition debris and crews have begun excavating the ground surface to grade level.
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October 2011 — Pile driving operations near completion in the transformer foundation area at the Hudson converter station site.
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April 2012 — Foundation placement is in progress at the converter station site and framing of the valve hall building is underway.
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Early June 2011 — Seemingly indifferent to Hudson construction activities on his block, a working horse pulls his carriage home to the Central Park Carriage stables on W. 52nd Street in Manhattan.
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Construction workers take measurements inside the pit on W 52nd Street that will eventually house a vault containing fluid for the underwater cable.
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Early June 2011 — The Hudson HDD rig is in place and ready to begin drilling under the West Side Highway to the Hudson River.
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Mid July traffic passes smoothly alongside the HTP construction site on W. 52nd Street. HDD operations progress in the foreground while blasting and excavating of the fluid vault pit continues in the background.
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HTP contractors, aboard a barge in the Hudson, attach conduit to a drill head prior to installation in the HDD path under the West Side Highway.
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June 2011 — HDD Contractors demobilizing the drill rig on site in Edgewater, New Jersey.
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August 2011 — The Manhattan skyline is visible in the background as fused lengths of conduit stretch along the southern edge of the Edgewater Mall property.
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Bundled conduit lies in the open trench in Edgewater New Jersey.
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A crane barge floats conduit for the HDD in the Hudson River just off shore of Edgewater, New Jersey.
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Construction crews aboard a crane barge install cofferdam walls in the Hudson River off the coast of Edgewater, NJ.
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The cable laying ship, the Giulio Verne, conducts preinstallation trials in the Hudson River in early November
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The Giulio Verne at work on the Hudson River with the George Washington Bridge in the background.
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January 2012 — Cable is floated in the Hudson River off the coast of Edgewater, NJ.
