Engineers say Hope Canal works substandard, call for review

The drifting piles at the Hope Canal (Arian Browne photo)

-contractors challenge findings

Prominent engineers Malcolm Alli and Charles Sohan have sounded alarm bells over substandard work on the Hope Canal Project and have urged an independent review but the contractors are dismissing their concerns, saying their assessment of the situation is misleading.

“What we observed with respect to project activities, quality control and the contractors’ abilities to organize and execute the work to complete their contracts on time was not very encouraging,”