Water plants keep Pedersen busy.New Liskeard -- New legislation for Ontario's drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. is keeping Pedersen Construction Co. busy. As Ontario continues to upgrade its water treatment plants, the New Liskeard company which specializes in sewer and water construction, has hired 10 young people, increasing its workforce to 80. The 50-year-old company changed hands in 1978 when Karl Pedersen, president, took over his father's business. Formerly known as Helmer Pedersen Helmer Orlaf Leif Pedersen (born March 28, 1930 in Copenhagen, Denmark - died August 24, 1987) is an Olympic Gold medallist for New Zealand in yachting. With Earle Wells, Pedersen won the Flying Dutchman class at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Construction Limited, the company changed its name to Pederson Construction Co. in 1990. Presently, Karl and his three brothers Alec, Dennis and Terry run the company. "We originally started building foundations and basements 50 years ago for building contractors, and we expanded from there," Karl Pedersen says. Located at the intersection of Highway 65 West and Highway 11, the 30-acre facility is accessible to deliver ready-mix concrete Ready-mix concrete is a type of concrete that is manufactured in a factory according to a set recipe, and then delivered to a worksite, often by truck. This results in a precise mixture, allowing specialty concrete mixtures to be developed and implemented on construction sites. from its ready-mix plant. Although the business has been stable for 15 years, Pedersen says the pace has increased this year, partly due to the 2002 Ontario Safe Drinking Water Act The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is a United States federal law passed by the U.S. Congress on December 16, 1974. It is the main federal law that ensures safe drinking water for Americans. . "We're doing a lot of the water treatment plants and water systems after Walkerton," Pedersen says. Currently, they have the contract for the Larder Lake water treatment plant and the Six Mile Lake Provincial Park Six Mile Lake Provincial Park is located in Ontario near Georgian Bay on Six Mile Lake. External links
They are upgrading the water system for the town of New Liskeard and Dymond Township, known as Temiskaming Shores since amalgamation. Pedersen says they will be commissioning a new upgrade at the Cobalt water treatment plant and are currently working for another company in Temagami on two new additions for existing water treatment plants. The company also put in all the water, sanitary sewer A sanitary sewer (also called, especially in the UK, a foul sewer) is a type of underground carriage system for transporting sewage from houses or industry to treatment or disposal. and storm sewer services for the Hockey Heritage North project in Kirkland Lake. Besides the flurry of activity in water plants, Pedersen Construction Co. continues to do concrete forming for foundations, as well as road work for the Ministry of Transportation. "We do a lot of subcontracting work for Miller Paving," Pedersen says. "We install culverts and do drilling and blasting Before the advent of tunnel boring machines, drilling and blasting was the only economical way of excavating long tunnels through hard rock, where digging is not possible. Even today, the method is still used in the construction of particularly long tunnels, where a TBM is ." As a business that has been in the community for 50 years, he believes they receive a lot of local support and that it also helps to have some Northern ministers advocating for Northern companies. By ADELLE LARMOUR Northern Ontario Business Northern Ontario Business is a Canadian magazine, which publishes monthly in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. The magazine covers business news and issues in Northern Ontario. |
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