MCCRACKEN COUNTY, KY (KFVS) -

A contractor for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is continuing to develop an alternate plan for demolition of the remaining in-water piers at the Old Ledbetter Bridge site.

When the last steel truss section over the Tennessee River main navigation channel was detonated on Oct. 1, damage was caused to the concrete structures.

KYTC says cracks left in the piers raised safety questions about the drilling process.

Mark Hutchins, Project Manager with C.J. Manhan Construction Company, said the piers had suffered horizontal cracking and extreme deflections.

In our experience, as well as in all that of our specialty (explosives) contractor, we have never witnessed pier deflections of the magnitude indicated , Hutchins said. We would not want to attempt to drill the piers to place explosives without providing some external means of ensuring stability. Given their location in the river, it is not clear how to accomplish this.

KYTC engineers and the company are continuing to work on options, but it may be several weeks before a plan is fully developed and approved.

Removing the river piers in a safe and environmentally sound manner is among several challenges that were a part of the demolition process from the beginning, KYTC District 1 Chief Engineer MikeMcGregor said. We continue to work with our contractor and the various federal and state agencies to develop a viable plan to remove the piers.

KYTC says the contractor has continued conventional demolition of the approach spans along the Livingston County end of the Old Ledbetter Bridge.

All steel is down and the contractor is digging around and pushing over the land-based piers.

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Demolition crews begin tearing down the childhood home of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and State Planning Minister Matthew Guy says there is nothing he can do to stop it.

A demolition crew has started work tearing down Gough Whitlam's childhood home, just a day after he passed away.

State Planning Minister Matthew Guy says there's nothing he can do to prevent the demolition of the house.

The minister came under fire over plans to raze the house following the death of the former prime minister on Tuesday.

It's time? A demolition crew has begun work at Ngara, the Kew childhood home of Gough Whitlam.

Fairfax Media revealed the property in Kew, in Melbourne's inner east, would be demolished after being denied heritage protection.

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According to local legend, Mr Whitlam was born on the kitchen table of 46 Rowland Street, in 1916.

A demolition crew arrived at the property at 7.30am on Wednesday and began ripping out the interior of the house, known as Ngara.

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Demolition crews begin tearing down the childhood home of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and State Planning Minister Matthew Guy says there is nothing he can do to stop it.

A demolition crew has started work tearing down Gough Whitlam's childhood home, just a day after he passed away.

State Planning Minister Matthew Guy says there's nothing he can do to prevent the demolition of the house.

The minister came under fire over plans to raze the house following the death of the former prime minister on Tuesday.

It's time? A demolition crew has begun work at Ngara, the Kew childhood home of Gough Whitlam.

Fairfax Media revealed the property in Kew, in Melbourne's inner east, would be demolished after being denied heritage protection.

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According to local legend, Mr Whitlam was born on the kitchen table of 46 Rowland Street, in 1916.

A demolition crew arrived at the property at 7.30am on Wednesday and began ripping out the interior of the house, known as Ngara.

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Onlookers cheered Tuesday as a four-man demolition crew started tearing down what some had dubbed a "House of Horrors" - the squalid Massachusetts home where the skeletal remains of three infants were found.

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A backhoe started clawing at the outer walls after a 9 a.m. deadline passed without the home's owner contacting the town or seeking a court order to halt the demolition. Blackstone Town Administrator Daniel Keyes said all utilities were shut off and someone went through the building to make sure no one was inside before work began.

The town's fire department hosed down the debris and dust to contain the offensive odors still emanating from the home, which had been filled with dirty diapers, animal carcasses and infested with insects and rodents.

Blackstone's Board of Health ordered the demolition, which is expected to take two days.

Erika Murray, the woman who lived in the house with four children and her longtime boyfriend, is being held on $1 million bail on charges including fetal death concealment. She has pleaded not guilty.

Murray's lawyer Keith Halpern said last week that she appears to have mental health issues. He said Murray told him the dead infants were born starting about eight years ago and at least one was born alive and lived a few days before she found the child dead in a bassinet. The state medical examiner has not determined how old the babies were or how they died.

Murray's other four children, ranging in age from 6 months to 13 years, were removed from the house in August. Authorities found the infants' remains in a more thorough search a few weeks later.

"It's an end to a long drama here in town," Linda Konowitz said as the backhoe demolished the porch. "It's going to put a lot of people at rest."

She said the demolition wanted to see the home be demolished.

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