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Infrastructure Considering the Environment First … Winter 2007 Quarterly Publication of the Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania Infrastructure Considering the environment first … Planning, designing, and constructing civil and transportation infrastructure in western Pennsylvania is critical to successful and continued economic development for the region—but not at the expense of the environment. With environmental services ranging from air monitoring to cultural resources and risk management to site restoration, our approach considers the environment first. Michael Baker Corporation Airside Business Park 100 Airside Drive Moon Township, PA 15108 1.800.553.1153 www.mbakercorp.com Table of Contents ENGINEERS’ SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh Engineers’ Building Guest Editorial . .2 337 Fourth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Joe Grata Tel: 412-261-0710•Fax: 412-261-1606 •e-mail: [email protected] Pittsburgh ENGINEER is the quarterly publication of the Engineers’ Society Urban Transportation Challenges: of Western Pennsylvania (ESWP). The ideas and opinions expressed with- in Pittsburgh ENGINEER are those of the writers and not necessarily the Balancing System Operations members, officers or directors of ESWP. Pittsburgh ENGINEER is provided free to ESWP members and members of our subscribing affiliated technical and System Preservation . .4 societies. Regular subscriptions are available for $10 per year. H . Daniel Cessna, P .E . ESWP BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Innovation and Infrastructure Can – ALEX G. SCIULLI, P.E., National City Corporation 1st Vice President and Must – Learn to Co-Exist . .8 ANTHONY M. DIGIOIA JR., Ph.D., P.E., DiGioia, Gray & Associates, LLC 2nd Vice President Donald P . Fusilli, Jr ., P .E ., J .D . DEBORAH A. LANGE, Ph.D., P.E., DEE, Carnegie Mellon University Steinbrenner Institute Treasurer Preparing the Power-Duquesne Light DOMINICK J. DESALVO, DeSalvo Enterprises, Inc. Company Lights The Way . Secretary Joseph Vallarian THOMAS E. DONATELLI, P.E., Allegheny County Dept. of Public Works Past President MICHAEL G. BOCK, P.E., Esq., Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP Directors Natural Gas Infrastructure . .4 GEORGE F. BABCOKE, U.S. Steel Corporation Dan Donovan MICHAEL G. BRENNAN, P.E., Astorino ERIC CARTWRIGHT, UPMC Corporate Real Estate Managing Sewer Overflows H. DANIEL CESSNA, P.E., Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation WAYNE A. JOHNSON, P.E., R.T. Patterson Company, Inc. with New Technology . 6 ERIC S. KLINE, KTA-Tator, Inc., IBC General Chair John Findley, P .E . KENNETH R. MARINO, P.E., Wayne Crouse, Inc. A. ROBERT NECCIAI, P.E., Orbital Engineering, Inc. 50 years on, ‘Atoms for Peace’ R. SCOTT POLLOCK, Oxford Development Company MICHAEL P. ROARTY, P.E., Mascaro Construction Co., L.P. is remembered . .8 ARLETTA SCOTT-WILLIAMS, ALCOSAN Don Hopey KUMAR SINHA, P.E., Bechtel Power, IWC General Chair DANIEL J. TIS, S/D Engineers, Inc. CHARLES R. TORAN, Jr., Sci-Tek Environmental Services Co. Society News: Engineers as Entrepreneurs; RAYMOND P. WATTRAS, Michael Baker Jr., Inc., BoB General Chair A Panel Discussion . 20 BRADLEY D. WOLF, P.E., Navigant Consulting Chriss Swaney PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE The ESWP produces a range of publications as a service to our members and affilated technical societies. ESWP Publications are supported by an ABOUT THE COVER: all-volunteer Publications Committee. Phillip Murray Bridge (South 10th Street Bridge) – Downtown Pitts- Guest Editor: Joe Grata, Transportation Writer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette burgh, PA, Allegheny County. This three span cable suspension bridge Chair: Daniel J. Tis, S/D Engineers, Inc. built in 1933 has an overall length of 1275’ from abutment to abut- Editor-in-Chief: David A. Teorsky, ESWP ment. The bridge carries Tenth Street over the Monongahela River. The photograph was taken from the base of one of the south anchor- Art Direction & Layout: David A. Teorsky, ESWP age vaults. The overall structure was rehabilitated in 1993 and part Cover Photo: Larry Rippel of the rehabilitation was to repair deteriorated main cable strands be- Members: tween the splay casting and the nested I-bar anchorage grillage. The repair entailed cutting the deteriorated strand groups to connect to Chriss Swaney, Carnegie Mellon University a redesigned anchorage at the I-bar grillage and resocketing the cut Tiffany Merovich-Winter, Aker Kvaerner strands to the new anchorage. This structure is owned and maintained by Allegheny County and Jim Reith is the County worker. Pittsburgh ENGINEER Winter 2007 Guest Editorial Joe Grata Transportation Writer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ho, me? You’re asking me to be guest editor for the winter edition of Pittsburgh Engineer magazine? Me, a Wnewspaper transportation beat reporter regarded as be- ing uncivil toward civil engineers so many times over the past 36 years? “We had second thoughts, too,” Dave Teorsky lightheartedly (I Joe Grata think!) confessed during one of the weekly conference calls that also always included ESWP Publications Chair Dan Tis and his insight. “We never did this before, but Dan Cessna recommended “Amazingly, the nation that can.... you. He thought you’d be fair.” rocket people into space doesn’t pro- Dave and the two Dans implied that serving as guest editor was an vide the money needed to bring struc- honor bestowed in the past upon important people, like Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato and Pennsylvania Transportation turally deficient bridges...up to proper Secretary Allen Biehler. I guess they ran out of important people. engineering and safety standards.” They didn’t say there would be no pay or that editing sometimes highly technical submissions would be proper punishment for a common wordsmith who has needled professional engineers and Mr. Cessna explains the challenges of balancing the urban region’s government policymakers. highway and bridge needs with available resources. Amazingly, the nation that can split atoms, transplant hearts and rocket people into space doesn’t provide the money needed to bring 346 structur- “ESWP hoped for a Rhodes Scholar; ally deficient bridges in Allegheny County up to proper engineer- they got a roads scholar.” ing and safety standards. After giving the notion some thought, and after my Pittsburgh PennDOT is nevertheless advancing some major projects which, Post-Gazette editors approved the idea with the stipulation I don’t when completed, will make a big difference in how traffic flows compromise lofty journalism standards that engineers expect from in and around Pittsburgh. Mr. Cessna outlines them as part of his us, I accepted the invitation. ESWP hoped for a Rhodes Scholar; comprehensive look at where we’ve been and where we’re going. they got a roads scholar. “...innovative assessments and moni- How many transportation reporters get a chance to edit stuff sub- mitted by people they cover, like PennDOT District 11 Executive toring may uncover a problem before Dan Cessna? the unmentionable happens.” He kicks off the list of contributors to this magazine edition that Don Fusilli, now principal of The Telum Group, makes a case for touches not only on important transportation challenges but some spending smart, not necessarily fast, when it comes to bridges. By of the other infrastucture, e.g., power generation and distribution; employing new technologies for inspection and evaluation, bridge water and sewer systems; oil and natural gas transmission pipe- owners may not have to rehab or replace spans as soon as they do lines; communications networks. They’re lifelines too often out of based on visual inspections. On the other hand, innovative assess- sight and out of mind until the lights go out, the phone goes dead ments and monitoring may uncover a problem before the unmen- or the spigot runs dry. tionable happens. 2 Infrastructure Duquesne Light Co., the main power provider in Pittsburgh, is Grata joined The Pittsburgh Press in March 1971 and spending $500 million to refurbish and upgrade aging underground the PG in January 1993. A journalism major at Penn systems dating back to the days of Reddy Kilowatt, whom some State University, Grata has received nine Keystone Press of you will remember as the stick-figure cartoon character who Association awards and other honors, including a “Dis- promoted energy use in the mid-20th century. Today, the utility shows how far it has come since building one of the world’s first tinguished Service Award” from the Pittsburgh Chapter, permanent central power stations in the mid-19th century on a 50- Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers, in 1998. by-90-foot lot on what’s now Oliver Avenue, Downtown. Grata is a lifelong resident of the Belle Vernon area, With The Post-Gazette’s permission, we’re reprinting an article where he has served as a member and officer of the about a related “world’s first.” That would be my colleague Don school board, the municipal authority, BVA Boosters Hopey’s look back to Dec. 2, 1957, when the first commercial Club executive board and other organizations. He also nuclear reactor in the U.S. began generating electricity along the Ohio River in Beaver County. founded and served as president for six years at CAS Emergency Medical Services that served 13 municipali- ties in the Mon Valley. “When I write...I strive for three “E” goals: Engage. Enlighten. Entertain. At Penn State, Grata was special assistant to athletic Hopefully, we’ve achieved those same director Jim Tarman for five years. He was sports editor elements in Pittsburgh Engineer.” of The Daily Collegian student newspaper, and he hosted weekly radio sports shows. And did you realize that Western Pennsylvania provides key un- By his own estimates, Grata has written about 10,000 derground storage of natural gas for the entire Northeast? A for- by-lined articles during his career, ranging from copy- mer colleague, Dan Donovan, now with Dominion, takes you on a righted pieces and magazine articles to columns and word journey through the site, and the process, in an informative breaking news. Some have been used nationally piece that shows how one billion cubic feet of stored gas a day can be retrieved from underground in Westmoreland County and returned to a 9,040-mile pipeline system.
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