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    July, 2001

    <p>Driving the first pile at Jones Point Park, Virginia.</p> <hr /> <p>Note: The scale of the crane with the person in the foreground.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Photo Credit: PCC</em></p>
    <p>Driving the first pile at Jones Point Park, Virginia.</p> <hr /> <p>Note: The current bridge in the background.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Photo Credit: PCC</em></p>
    <p>First two piles driven at Jones Point Park, Virginia.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Photo Credit: PCC</em></p>
    <p>Workers set up pile driver at the start of another pile.</p> <hr /> <p>Note: 20 in red. This signifies the 20 foot mark. The pile is approximately 40 feet.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Photo Credit: PCC</em></p>
    <p>Workers set up the pile driver at the start of another pile.</p> <hr /> <p>Note: The worker with the blue hardhat, he is checking the vertical angle of the pile with a level.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Photo Credit: PCC</em></p>
    <p>Ten foot perimeter fencing around the construction site.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Photo Credit: PCC</em></p>
    <p>Cleared area prepared for pile driving, near parking area, Jones Point Park, Virginia. This area will be outfitted with proper construction equipment and 70 piles will be driven to support a pier.</p> <hr /> <p>Note: Water at the bottom of the pit will be diverted to a sediment control area.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Photo Credit: PCC</em></p>
    <p>Project clearing continues at Jones Point Park, Virginia. Yellow boom in water marks area where a turbidity curtain has been placed. This is the physical limit for sediment to remain within the Project area and not enter the Potomac River.</p> <hr /> <p>Note: Disposal of concrete from the shipways in the background will be transported offsite.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Photo Credit: PCC</em></p>
    <p>Cofferdam operation south of the existing bridge near Rosalie Island, Maryland.</p> <hr /> <p>Note: The purpose of the cofferdam is to create a dry space for pier construction below the water surface.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Photo Credit: PCC</em></p>
    <p>Bulkhead under the current bridge at Jones Point Park, Virginia.</p> <hr /> <p>Note: The bulkhead provides protection of the shoreline.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Photo Credit: PCC</em></p>
    <p>Excavation at Jones Point Park, Virginia for the fifth pier support.</p> <hr /> <p>Note: The pier numbering system begins in the Potomac River with Pier V-1 at the movable span, Pier V-2 at the shoreline, Piers 3-7 on the landside in the westerly direction.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Photo Credit: PCC</em></p>
    <p>Construction staging area National Harbor, Maryland from just south of the existing bridge looking east.</p> <hr /> <p>Note: Barge with steel piles at the bulkhead.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Photo Credit: PCC</em></p>
    <p>Steel pipes delivered via barge up the Potomac River.</p> <hr /> <p>Note: The piles are 200' long and will be driven from the V-1 inner-loop pier.</p> <hr /> <p><em>Photo Credit: PCC</em></p>

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