Thursday, September 22, 2011

Stewart International Airport (KSWF), Newburgh, New York: Major $148 million runway project proposed

Stewart International Airport is being considered by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

This morning, plans for improvement of the airport’s two runways were discussed in New York City by the Port Authority’s Committee on Capital Programs/Agency Planning. Initially, a $2.5 million planning study authorization was requested to get the project moving. Actual construction, if approved, would come late in 2012.

The committee voted to send the proposal on to the whole board for consideration later today.

The planning proposal was to rehabilitate both runways at the airport “in order to develop a project to maintain the runways in a good state of good repair,” said Jeffrey Pierce of the agency staff.

He said the construction project would generate 870 jobs, $50 million in wages and $221 million in economic activity.

“The runways require rehabilitation,” he said. That includes electrical work that must be upgraded to conform with current standards. That infrastructure would replace lines in place for 32 years in the case of the major east-west runway.

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