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Alban Cat-A-Thon Draws More Than 250 Guests…8
Midlantic Shows Off Remodeled Facility…14
Lift Inc. Expands With 68,000-Sq.-Ft. Building…38
After Sandy: N.Y., N.J. Officials Vow to Be Prepared By Jennifer Peltz and Wayne Parry ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK (AP) After Superstorm Sandy, officials in New York and New Jersey vowed to make sure the unprecedented destruction wouldn’t happen again. Two years later, would it? There are some concrete signs of tougher protections, from a nearly-finished sea wall protecting two devastated New Jersey towns to a Long Island boardwalk rebuilt to serve as a retaining wall. New floodgates protect a power plant where Sandy plunged lower Manhattan into darkness and some homes sit higher while other buildings boast new flood barriers. Enhanced preparedness has hardened backup power systems at hospitals, forged new systems to flood-proof subway vents, installed generators at dozens of gas stations to run pumps in a power outage, redrawn evacuation-zone maps and reshaped emergency plans for managing problems from debris to traffic. But many planned projects are still years off and some ideas still under study. Thousands of homeowners await repair aid, some of it coupled with steps to make homes safer. Some efforts to buy out flood-prone homes haven’t gotten takers in the worst-hit areas. And across the coast, a patchwork of protections leaves some areas more vulnerable than others. see SANDY page 132
Table of Contents ................4 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................63-67 Recycling Section ........71-94 Snow & Ice Section..103-108
By Jason Cato
Business Calendar ..........118
CHARLEROI, Pa. (AP) Lue Ann Pawlick never envisioned companies connected with oil and gas beating a path to Alta Vista Business Park when it broke ground in tiny Fallowfield, Washington County, in 2001.
Advertisers Index ............134
At the peak of construction, the widening program was the largest ongoing roadway project in the Western Hemisphere. During this time period, 1,000 workers were employed on the project every day.
N.J. Turnpike Project Winds Down $200M Under Budget By Brenda Ruggiero
The project is fully funded by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. The official groundbreaking was held in July 2009, A five-year, $2.3 billion project to and completion is set for November 2014. According to Thomas O’Connor, projwiden the New Jersey Turnpike is winding down on schedule and more than ect manager of the construction management consultant AECO/GPI/PB joint ven$200 million under budget. ture, one of the final states of work was opened the weekend of Oct. 25, when the inner roadway rehabilitation on the northbound travel lanes was completed. “This weekend [Nov. 1 and 2], we will complete the inner roadway rehabilitation on the southbound travel lanes,” he said. Today, three of the five companies in Alta Vista “Once that is completed, the work in the industry. An energy company is set to remaining work is to remove the start construction in the spring, and at least one more temporary merge and diverge is close to signing a deal to locate there. pavement north of interchange “We’re trying to keep it a mixed-use business park, 8A and restore the median. All but we have to recognize the oil and gas industry is this work is scheduled to be comthe biggest game in town right now,” said Pawlick, pleted prior to the Thanksgiving CEG CORRESPONDENT
Leaders Hail Shale Oil, Gas Fuel for Monongahela Valley Rebirth
Attachment & Parts Section ..................................109-114
Auction Section ......120-133
New Jersey Turpike Authority photo
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
see GAS page 36
see TURNPIKE page 90