Abrasives

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Additional Information: Abrasives can do more harm than good if not well suited to the job.

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Abrasion

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Location: Bethany Beach, Delaware

Additional Information: By the ocean, a wind swept bush scratched the shape of a fan into traditional cedar skin.

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Ice Dam

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Location: Roxana, Delaware

Additional Information: An ice dam has formed on the coldest part of this cedar shake roof.  Water from melting snow over the heated interior flows down and freezes over the unheated eave creating a dam. As the word implies, water is backed up behind the dam and can eventually make its way inside of the building causing all manner of moisture related problems.

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Replacing broken poles

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Location:  Southern Delaware

Additional Information: With only wide open fields on either side, three utility poles failed in fierce winds.

Their replacements, here, are being re-connected.

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Pier Erosion

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The old Indian River Inlet Bridge is supported by piers that have been steadily eroding in the swift tidal currents between the Atlantic ocean and Indian River Bay. There have been five bridges built on this very site since 1934. The state of Delaware is building a cable stay bridge across the inlet in 2010 but back in 2005 there were plans for a very different bridge in the works. 

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Emission

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Location: Roxana, Delaware

Additional Information:   One serious by product of building is air pollution. In the photo, a diesel stack rain cap on a working Thompson rotary wellpoint pump, is raised high indicating that the machine is emitting invisible exhaust gas into the atmosphere. 

Relative Link: Diesel exhaust air contaminants

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Balance

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Location: Rehoboth, Delaware

Additional Information: Repeating elements, spaced effectively, give this pedimented front door a nice sense of balance.

Relative Link: 01/02/2010

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Sag

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Location: Roxana, Delaware

Additional Information: From the slumping porch to the sunken roof, the combined effects of time, weather and gravity can really be seen here. 

Relative Link: Sagging with age...

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Shadow

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AKA: Shade, Umbra, Penumbra

Location: Rehoboth Beach, Delaware

Additional Information: Staggered Shingle Pattern with multiple offsets.

Relative Link: The Shadow and Architecture in The Arabic Scientific Heritage

Keywords: Rehoboth, Delaware

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