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pliance with the latest regulations, we decided that the best
alternative for us was to tear down the old plant and construct
a whole new facility," he said.
The tear-down of the old plant began in May 2015, and
construction of the new plant was completed Thanksgiving
week of 2015, Berube said.
Web Engineering Associates, formerly of Norwell, Mass.,
now based in Scituate, Mass., managed the applications
for permits, designed the terminal and engineered it. Bob
Coluccio, senior engineer with Web Engineering, handled
that work, while Berube served as his own general contractor,
subcontracting the site work, and purchasing the equipment
through Hall-Trask Equipment in Braintree, Mass.
"I had a pretty steady correspondence with Mike Trask
through the whole process," Berube said. "They were fantas-
Austin Mohawk Inc., Utica, N.Y., made the canopy for the new plant
(left). The equipment installed in the terminal includes Gorman-
Rupp Roto-Prime self-priming centrifugal pumps (lower left).
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