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October 25 2017
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Vol. XXX • No. 22
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Booming Charleston Sees Water Plant Upgrade By Eric Olson CEG CORRESPONDENT
Southard Brothers Bring Jobs to Monks Corner…8
Power Equipment Company Hosts Demo…22
Keeping drinking water clean and safe for an ever-growing metropolitan area demands a treatment plant that can continually be upgraded to meet changing needs. The vibrant communities in and around Charleston, S.C., are seeing their primary water treatment plant being modernized this year at a cost of $40 million to handle current and future population growth. Construction crews are busy at the city’s Hanahan Water Treatment Plant performing another in a long series of upgrades to the facility since it was first opened in 1904. The plant currently provides clean drinking water for about 400,000 area residents. Experts in Treatment Plant Construction The work crews at Hanahan are under the expert leadership of PC Construction Company,
based in South Burlington, Vt. The veteran firm works up and down the East Coast and maintains a strong presence in South Carolina, while maintaining a warehouse/yard in Raleigh, N.C. As a matter of fact, building and upgrading waste water treatment facilities makes up about two-thirds of PC Construction’s varied portfolio, according to company vice president Brian Walker. That is more impressive when
May Heavy Equipment Opens New Facility…36
Table of Contents ................4 Paving Section..............40-53 Crawler Loaders, Dozers, Undercarriages & Parts Section .................................... ......................................55-63 Parts Section ......................64 Auction Section ............87-92 Business Calendar ............91 Advertisers Index ..............94
The vibrant communities in and around Charleston, S.C., are seeing their primary water treatment plant being modernized this year at a cost of $40 million to handle current and future population growth
you consider that the company averages about $550 million in volume each year. New Filtration Basins Being Built The major task at hand at the Hanahan plant is to replace one plate settler basin and add two more at the site just north of North Charleston. By way of definition, plate settlers are alternatives to the standard settling tanks used in many water treatment facilities. They utilize a see PLANT page 90
Deal Asks Washington to ‘Step Up’ Harbor Funding By Russ Bynum
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) Gov. Nathan Deal said Oct. 12 that Washington needs to “step up” with more money to deepen the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah, where larger ships arriving through an expanded Panama Canal have pushed cargo volumes to record highs. The Army Corps of Engineers began dredging 39 mi. of the Savannah ASSOCIATED PRESS
River between the port and the Atlantic Ocean two years ago using mostly state funds. President Donald Trump requested $50 million toward the $973 million project in his latest proposed budget, but Georgia officials said that’s about half the amount needed to stay on schedule. see FUNDING page 26