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Double the Life of an A/C Unit?

“The first Island of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel sees some of the harshest weather on the bay.” “Out here, it’s like being in the middle of the ocean.” “Bronz-Glow has helped us double the life of our mechanical equipment in this corrosive environment” stated Dick Denniston, Maintenance Superintendent for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.

	Bronz-Glow was first introduced to Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Personnel by Mr. Roger Shull with Damuth Trane Services more than 12 years ago. Mr. Phil Damuth is now the Damuth Trane point of contact. Damuth Trane Services has been a Bronz-Glow Representative since 1993.
	Construction on the Bay Bridge tunnel began on September 7th, 1960. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel opened to traffic on April 15th, 1964 and it is often called an engineering wonder of the modern world.
	One of the "Seven Engineering Wonders of the World," the bridge connects Delmarva with Virginia Beach. The bridge is 17.6 miles long in water up to 100 feet deep and the bridge goes underwater into tunnels twice. It cost $450,000,000 to build. The man-made islands that serve as entrances and exits to the tunnels are made up of 34,000 carloads of rocks, some of which weigh as much as 64,000 pounds. Each contains 3,000,000,000 pounds of sand and 600,000,000 pounds of rock. They cost $625,000 per acre, some of the most expensive real-estate on Earth.

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