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3,000-Foot Bridge
Season 2 • Episode 5
Broadcast date
02-06-2011
Since 1949, the steel and concrete Piacenza Bridge had spanned a remarkable 3,300 feet across Italy's Po River. Then, disaster struck: A dangerous flood collapsed the bridge and took four vehicles with it. Now, a team of deconstruction experts have a radical plan to take down the bridge in just 90 days, with a recycling mandate of 90 percent!
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