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N.J. Sandy Cleanup to Cost About $29.4 Billion TRENTON, N.J. (AP) Cleaning up the damage caused by Superstorm Sandy will cost New Jersey about $29.4 billion, Gov. Chris Christie announced. The preliminary estimate includes damage the storm caused to personal property, businesses, transportation, utilities and infrastruc-
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ture, as well as aid the state has already received and also expects to get from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other federal agencies. Christie, though, warned that the damage estimate could go higher as the state further assesses damage caused by the monster storm that pounded the
Waterline work is being performed on the U.S. Route 11 project in Canton, N.Y.
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Table of Contents ....................4 Plasterer Special Section 38-49 Truck & Trailer Section ..65-71 Recycling Section ............75-99
see SANDY page 131
Project in N.Y. Deemed Significant Investment By Mary Reed
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East Coast. Christie said the estimate came from “the best available data, field observations and geographic mapping,” and advice from cabinet officials and a consulting company. “We will continue to provide immediate
In late March 2012, the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) Commissioner Joan McDonald announced that more than two dozen bridge and highway transportation infrastructure contracts valued at more than $150.5 million will be undertaken across the state this year in locations ranging from the North Country to the Southern Tier and western New York to Long Island. Three months later work began on what Region 7 termed one of its more notable projects, the reconstruction of a stretch of U.S. Route 11 as it passes through the village of Canton in upstate St. Lawrence County. Describing the project as “a significant investment in a community,” Michael R. Flick, P.E., assistant to the regional director/public information officer of NYSDOT Region 7, said that, “The existing highway infrastructure in the village of Canton is in terrible shape, and there are also municipal utilities there that are old and failing. It was time for a project.”
The project involves the full reconstruction of the downtown business district, with consideration given to ornamental features, such as lampposts, plantings, benches, etc. The residential portion of the project will retain the same general highway lane configuration, advocated for by
local residents, but also will include utility upgrades and full reconstruction of the existing highway cross section. “During the development phase of the project, we formed a Stakeholder Advisory see CANTON page 108
Attachment Section ....117-121 Snow & Ice Section ....122-124 Parts Section ................124-125 Auction Section ..........130-144 Business Calendar ..............135 Advertisers Index ................142
Ritchie Bros. to Hold FirstAuction in China Ritchie Bros. will be holding its first unreserved public auction in China during Spring 2013. Although relatively new to the Chinese heavy equipment market, unreserved industrial auctions have been a quick and easy method for
equipment buyers and sellers to conduct business on a global scale. Ritchie Bros. will bring the certainty of unreserved auctions to Chinese equipment buyers and sellers now that the company’s wholly owned foreign enterprise applica-
tion has been approved by the Chinese government — making it the first foreign auction company to receive this approval. Ritchie Bros. has formally leased land in the see RITCHIE page 136