Northeast #5, 2011

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® March 2 2011 Vol. XLIX • No. 5

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Army Corps Works to Avert Catastrophe By Lori Lovely CEG CORRESPONDENT

New AED Chairman Seizes Opportunity to Lead…14

Brookfield Shepherds Landfill-to-Park Job…18

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is midway through a 20year, $300 million construction project to fully stabilize Bluestone Dam, located on the scenic New River near the town of Hinton in southern West Virginia. The purpose of the Bluestone Dam Safety Assurance project is to upgrade the dam to bring it up to current engineering standards. The ongoing stability project, scheduled for completion in 2020, will significantly improve safety, according to Col. Dana R. Hurst, commander and district engineer of the Corps of Engineers’ Huntington District. Because water from the New River flows into the Kanawha River before flowing into the Ohio River, a see BLUESTONE page 98

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo

Covering 4,565 sq. mi. (11,823 sq m), Bluestone Dam has the largest drainage area of any dam in West Virginia. Behind the dam is Bluestone Lake.

Caterpillar to Sell Carter Machinery Co. Monro e Tract or Cel ebrat es 60 Year s…52

Table of Contents ..........4 Truck & Trailer Section .... ................................57-63 Crushing, Screening & Recycling Section ....67-84

Caterpillar Inc. has reached an agreement to sell Carter Machinery Company Inc. Carter Machinery is a Caterpillar dealership headquartered in Salem, Va., and has operations and stores covering Virginia and nine counties in southeast West Virginia. The current senior management of Carter Machinery, which led

the buy-out of Carter Machinery from Caterpillar, will remain in place. Jim Parker, a retired Caterpillar vice president, will become CEO of Carter Machinery and will be the principal owner going forward. Caterpillar has owned Carter Machinery since 1988. It is the only Caterpillar dealership

in the United States that is not independently owned. “Over the last 20 years, Carter Machinery has consistently been an excellent performing dealership, but as we updated our corporate strategy in 2010, it was clear that continued see CARTER page 32

Machinery Exports Gain in 2010; Top $16.4B

Attachment Section 91-99 Business Calendar ......100 Parts Section ......100-101 Auction Section ..109-128 Advertisers Index ......126

The market for exports of U.S.-made construction machinery closed out 2010 with a gain of more than 28 percent compared to the previous year, for a total of $16.4 billion dollars’ worth of equipment sold worldwide, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). The AEM North American-based internation-

al trade group consolidates U.S. Commerce Department data with other sources into a quarterly export trends report. “Global trade is extremely important to our industry and export sales continue to sustain many companies as we still face a fragile domestic upturn,” said AEM Senior Vice President Al Cervero. “While these numbers are

positive we have to remember they follow a 2009 decline of more than 38 percent.” “It’s important to pass the pending free-trade agreements with Colombia, Korea and Panama to help manufacturers create more U.S. jobs by selling their products to international buyers,” he added. see EXPORTS page 28


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