Engineered Materials Arresting System at Trenton Mercer Airport (KTTN), New Jersey

 

Mercer County Freeholder Pasquale "Pat" Colavita, Jr., County Executive Brian M. Hughes, Director of the County Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Aaron T. Watson, Freeholder Anthony P. Carabelli and Freeholder Ann M. Cannon watch as a block of crushable concrete into the Trenton-Mercer Airport’s EMAS system in Ewing Township on Tuesday, September 25, 2012. 

EMAS stands for Engineered Material Arresting System, and is placed at the end of a runway to stop an aircraft that overruns the runway. 

The project was funded by a $13.4 million grant from the FAA and $353,000 grant from the NJ DOT.