PITTSTON TWP. – The $18.8 million in federal stimulus bucks for a new air traffic control tower delivered a bigger bang than the muffled explosion Friday at the groundbreaking for the project.
Outside a hangar at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport officials pushed a ceremonial plunger a half mile away from where the dynamite went off. The ground heaved, collapsed and a cloud of dust rose from the charges detonated by construction workers on site.
The project funded by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 will retain the 25 air traffic controllers at the airport and put 120 laborers, electricians and tradesmen to work building the 92-foot-high tower set to open in the summer of 2012.
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