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Work on the first phase of a project to rehabilitate the Airport’s primary runway 9/27 is complete. Airport Director Dan Mann said the costs for the first phase of reconstruction were $6 million. When the remaining three phases of the project are complete in 2009 it will cost a total of $47 million. There were a few problems for the commercial service airlines during the summer, Mann said, though, every effort was made to minimize the problems. "When an airport has to do work on its primary runway, there are always a few disruptions unfortunately," he said. Mann and the staff at Engineering Alliance, overseeing the project, have created a plan to insure that the runway work done next construction season won't impact airline operations. Runway 9/27, at 8,600 feet, ishas been re-opened to its full length and the ILS (instrument landing system) is operational. |
