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Storm-battered shoreline gets a lift, one house at a time
2013-08-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hartford Courant: Clay Markham waved to a neighbor on East Broadway in Milford one sweltering day in July. "You look exhausted. You've been lifting those houses all by yourself?'' the elderly man quipped. He uses machinery and men to raise the structures high in the air so they can be put down on new foundations -- like posts, pilings or piers -- that will prevent damage when the Long Island Sound swells from super storms. Business has been booming for Markham, who runs High Caliber Contractor LLC out of Milford,...
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