Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Setting Of First Steel Columns A Reason To Celebrate
Clean Harbors' Paul Whiting speaks at the celebration of the setting of the first steel columns for the second incinerator at the Kimball facility. He addressed Clean Harbors vendor partners, employees, and local officials.
Clean Harbors' senior vice president of facility engineering, Paul Whiting, addressed the vendor partners, Clean Harbors employees, city and county officials, and citizens monitoring committee members at the Oct. 7 Milestone Recognition Event of the setting of the first steel columns for the second incinerator at the Kimball facility.
The second incinerator is projected to be a $180 million investment expected to be completed by 2025 and create more than 100 permanent jobs for the area. The rotary kiln incinerator will be constructed to incinerate drummed waste.
The event was held in the 66,000 square foot warehouse, which will be used as a receiving and sampling facility with 20 truck bays.
Whiting said, "What you really can't see here and appreciate so much is the amount of concrete that Paul Reed's (construction) crew has put in here. In the latest tally, we got about 7,000 yards of concrete poured here. To put that in perspective, that is 700 truckloads."
Whiting also talked about the steel for the process train.
"In addition to the concrete, we have about 1400 tons of structural steel coming on site," he said. "Erection is going to start in earnest next week."
Erecting the structural steel is about a 48-week project. In May of 2023, the rotary kiln will arrive.
Contractors to date include Z & S Construction (road work), R & C Welding, Paul Reed Construction (concrete work), LPR (steel erection), HGA Engineering, and ESCO Electric.
The next celebration event will be the ironworkers' traditional topping-off event. An American flag will be erected when they put the last piece of steel up. And finally, there will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony in 2024.