UVM Engineer Weighs Options for Champlain Bridge Demolition

Full story: WCAX-TV Burlington

In December 1982, Vermonters got a lesson in how not to demolish a bridge. The arch bridge over the Connecticut River near Bellows Falls stubbornly stood through five blasts with explosives.

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