KING-TV Seattle, WA 11/24:
BNSF completes landslide prevention walls near Everett
EVERETT, Wash. -- Work is being finalized on a project aimed at protecting North Sound railroad tracks from landslides. More than $16 million of federal money is being spent to get the job done.
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF) has completed three catchment walls and a retaining wall between Mukilteo and Everett. The hope is to prevent loads of soil, and rocks from crashing onto train tracks in the area.
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Roughly 90 percent of all the slides in the Pacific Northwest in the past four years have happened in this area of concern, . . .
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