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That could potentially push the oil over the boom. as we pan over here looking through the bridge you can see pilings, the cranes are pushing them into the bottom of perdito pass. we have video we shot to give you a closer look at the construction site. what they plan to do with the pilings that they are putting into the pass is using them to suspend a strong steel pipe, 32 inches in diameter and filling that pipe with foam so that it floats in the water, the pilings holding it in place and then in addition to the 32 inches of steel piping there will be finances -- fins on top and below it 18 ...

Little, too late? jonathan serrie is live on orange beach, alabama. what do you the idea? do you like it? >> reporter: good morning, bill, behind me, is a $4.5 million project, look at the construction there, on the other side of the bridge, they are driving pilings, concrete pilings into the bottom of perdido pass, the inlet i'm standing on now and they'll eventually suspend a 32 inch diameter pipe all the way across perdido path and will be filled with foam so it floats and will be suspended from chains from the pilings you see them driving into the water and into the bottom of the path and ...

What we do here is we do a pilot hole. we go into the ground and get a geo technical engineer to drill and core drill and see what's going on with this structure? do we need to do any kind of reinforcing or add additional pilings or do pressure grout to stabilize this building so we don't have the kind of catastrophe that happened? and three years in this weather is unacceptable. >> there are a lot of building like this one, including a sister tower building almost next door that a lot of folks are worried about right now. built a year later. but by the same construction company, and in the sa...

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Here to understand what could happen if this storm surge does roll in here as is expected. this is a 17 foot high piling. this floating dock that i'm on is right about at the average high tide mark. i can tell that because of the water line that's just below the dock where it is now. i'm told when hurricane hazel showed up here, the water, it rose just about to the top of this 17 foot piling. when hurricane fran came here, if you look at the dock to my left, those pilings older, wooden, those are just eight feet tall. yeah, that dock rose up, floated right off of those pilings. locals telling ...