Aggregate Equipment

Tom Nicholson - Wed August 30, 2000

PA Disposal Facility Wastes No Time Building Landfill

More goes into the construction of a landfill than meets the eye, and at the Northern Tier Solid Waste Authority, a small municipal waste disposal facility in Bradford County, PA. A project to expand the landfill there is employing state-of-the-art technology and materials to meet the stringent demands of today’s environment-conscious waste disposal industry. As the Northern Tier Solid Waste Authority’s (Authority) original 27-acre landfill nears full-capacity, an additional 19-acre plot has been purchased and is being prepared to accommodate the steady flow of waste that arrives at the facility daily, said Dave Terrill, executive director of the Authority. Terrill and his crew at the landfill spent most of the spring and summer excavating the first, four-acre plot of the new landfill in preparation for the next phase of work, which includes the laying down of a liner and 18 in....

Diane Jowers - Wed February 23, 2000

Decades of Experience Guide Pageland Sand

Carlisle T. Smith of Bennettsville, SC, was born in the first decade of the twentieth century. He remembers working for a company that used mules to pull pans of concrete to build bridges on the Blueridge Parkway and knowing that he was better off than many of his friends when he made $30 a week....