Runway embankment work ongoing
– and a long way still to go

According to a Port spokesman, the third-runway embankment is 52 percent complete as of this date. The embankment portion of project will require placement of 19.84 million cubic yards of fill (which will settle down & be compacted to 17 million cubic yards). TIA calculates that the third runway will actually require 21.11 million cubic yards of fill. We include fill hauled for the RUNWAY SAFTEY AREAS (1.13mcy) and for relocating of South 154 th St. (.14 mcy ) our estimate because we think both are integral to the project.

When TTI Constructors, LLC , the consortium now working on the embankment, winds up its hauling work in December 2005, the embankment will contai