Monday, May 18, 2015

Moving Gay Head Lighthouse Part of the 3D Division's work come to fruition!

The day has come when the Gay Head Lighthouse is to be moved from its current location on the western end of Martha's Vineyard, to a new safer location. However, the new location is only about 130 feet back where the lighthouse will rest on a newly formed concrete platform. The lighthouse was settled on the edge of the Gay Head Cliffs, which were created about 20 million years ago from the receding of the glaciers. The lighthouse became at risk when erosion was a threat to the cliffs where they would lose about two feet every year.

Richard Saltzberg
http://www.mvtimes.com/2015/05/13/gay-head-lighthouse-move-is-on-track/

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