The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday filed a lawsuit in Florida seeking to collect $1.43 million from the Skanska construction company over damage from two barges that broke free as Hurricane Sally pounded the Pensacola area in 2020.
Skanska had been using the barges as part of a Pensacola Bay Bridge project.
But the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Pensacola, alleges that one of the barges damaged the Sam Lovelace Bridge and a golf-cart bridge, which the U.S. Navy owns, and the other barge beached on Naval Air Station Pensacola property, needing to be removed.
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Hurricane Sally made landfall in September 2020 as a Category 2 storm near Gulf Shores Ala., west of Pensacola.
The lawsuit alleges that Skanska did not properly move the barges to a “safe harbor” as the storm approached the region.
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