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Boeing Field reopens newly rehabilitated runway
King
County International Airport (KCIA), commonly known as Boeing Field,
fully reopened its main runway at 8 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 28 marking the
end of major rehabilitation of the 10,000-foot runway. The reopening
completes the most labor-intensive and complex phase of the project,
which began Aug. 8. Remaining finishing work will be completed over the
next few weeks.
During the course of the project, crews paved the equivalent of two
miles of Interstate 5 in 20 days, working around the clock without a
single job related injury. More than 4,200 trucks delivered
approximately 100,000 tons of asphalt. Crews installed an estimated
20,000 lineal feet of runway edge drains, added several miles of cabling
and conduit, installed a new runway edge lighting system, reinstalled
runway signage, removed and replaced thousands of yards of excavated
material and reconstructed 15 taxiway connector points - all while
keeping the airport open and the smaller runway operating normally. |
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