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® May 29 2019 Vol. LVI • No. 11
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Inside
Three Years to Build … Seconds to Fall
Crews Remove Final Section of Tappan Zee…10
H.O. Penn Holds Open House in Bloomingburg…18
CDI used 8,850 ft. of prima cord to initiate the non-electric initiation system in the building that was detonated over 4.95 seconds to tilt the structure slightly to the southeast before dropping it vertically.
By Craig Mongeau CEG Editor in Chief
A vestige of the height of the U.S. steel industry might came crashing down May 19, 2019, when Controlled Demolition Inc. (CDI) imploded the former Bethlehem Steel headquarters, Martin Tower. Foley Inc. Hosts One-Day Sale Event in Bensalem…20
Table of Contents.................. 4 Truck & Trailer Section.. 53-59 Recycling Section.......... 63-87 Attachment & Parts Section.. .................................... 101-104 Auction Section..........108-117 Business Calendar............ 117 Advertisers Index.............. 118
Crowds gathered to watch the demolition of the area’s tallest building, a 21-story monolith that opened at the height of Bethlehem Steel’s power and profitability but had stood vacant for a dozen years after America’s second-largest steel-maker went out of business. Explosives took out Martin Tower’s steel supports and crumpled the 47-year-old building,
which had earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places despite its relatively young age. The skyscraper was named after then-Bethlehem Steel chairman Edmund F. Martin. The architect for Martin Tower was Haines Lundberg Waehler. It was built by George A. Fuller Construction Co. of New see MARTIN page 26
Raritan Canal Receives Much-Needed Dredge By Cindy Riley CEG Correspondent
“The canal functions as a means to transport water and as a reservoir, and is part of the Raritan basin water supply system, providing source water to millions of central New Jersey residents,” said Julie Shelley, property and permit administrator of the New Jersey Water
Dredging has resumed in the Delaware and Raritan Canal, with the current season expected to run through the end of October. As of May 1, the canal was closed to boaters between the see RARITAN page 30 Walking Bridge and Griggstown Lock, to accomBrennan photo modate work in Reach 3. The As part of an effort to improve water qualnext segment to be dredged in ity and restore the Raritan Canal’s original 2019 will be Reach 5 from carrying capacity, crews in New Jersey are July to October, between relying on ALLU equipment to carry out the Griggstown Causeway and crucial work of sediment amendment with Portland cement. Blackwells Mills Causeway.