Wrecking Ball Raises Concerns on Pa. Demo Project

Township officials ask workers to change methods.

Published September 12, 2005

 

Workers for Neville Recycling and Triad Metals in Neville, Pa., changed equipment when their use of a wrecking ball on a demolition project raised concerns among town officials, according to a report in the Beaver County Times (Beaver, Pa.).

 

According to the report, workers were using a 3-ton wrecking ball to break the pavement to upgrade railroad crossings last week when they were stopped.

 

The paper reports that a Neville Township public works official became concerned about a 75-year-old cast iron water line running under where the ball was being dropped.

 

Township secretary Denise Moore tells the Beaver County Times that the public works department will be monitoring the remainder of the project. “The wrecking ball was used for the Neville Recycling railroad tracks, but it was stopped by our public works department before they began the second set of tracks owned by Triad Metals,” she tells the Times. “I believe that they removed the rest of the tracks with a hoe-ram or a jackhammer.”
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