[CPEO-BIF] Fort Pitt Bridge Works, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fort Pitt Bridge Works site to be redeveloped

By Tom Barnes
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
July 23, 2006

HARRISBURG -- For 90 years, many people in Washington County toiled in 
hot, difficult conditions at the Fort Pitt Bridge Works in Canonsburg, 
turning out huge steel girders which were used to build many bridges and 
buildings in the Pittsburgh area.

The steel fabricating company, founded in 1896, made the structural 
steel used in Pittsburgh's Smithfield Street Bridge, 16th Street Bridge, 
31st Street Bridge and others. It made steel used by American forces in 
both World Wars.

But as happened to many other old steel plants in and around Pittsburgh, 
the Fort Pitt Bridge Works fell on hard times in the late 20th century 
and was sold in 1986 to Colonial Steel, which has maintained a smaller 
steel-making presence at the site, along with a scrap iron yard.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06204/707337-58.stm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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