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accumulations, called tuberculation, in the pipe. The work is done without removing the pipe from the ground and without interruption of water service. “When we first got into cleaning and lining, you had to run bypass pipe up on top of the ground,” explained Fletch, Jr. “In the Northeast it would freeze in the winter, so we were limited to three seasons. We had all the equipment and all the people, so we decided to go out to California and work there in the winter and come back here the rest of the year. “It seemed like a great idea,” he laughed. “Then we got our first job in California and they postponed the start date, so we couldn’t do it in the winter. Because Los Angeles has a huge water and power program, we decided to just set up shop. We are considered a local contractor there now.” The cleaning and lining service has also completed major projects in New Jersey, Connecticut, Georgia and Maryland and smaller projects in many other states. Creamer crews can claim the rehabilitation of more than two million linear feet of 4- to 60-inchdiameter cast iron and steel water mains on numerous jobs for Los Angeles Power and Water alone. The operator of a Komatsu PC128UU zero-tail-swing excavator spreads fill on a road-building and underground utility project on Routes 4 and 17. The operator of a Komatsu PC270LC-6 excavator hoists and places a large concrete pipe on J. Fletcher Creamer & Sonʼs underground utility project on Routes 4 and 17. Continued . . . 5
Business grows through diversification . . . continued J. Fletcher Creamer V helps manage a property-development division of J. Fletcher Creamer & Son, Inc. Part of J. Fletcher Creamer & Son's skilled work force of over 1,000 employees nationwide includes (from left) Assistant Field Operations Manager Dan Rivera, administrative assistant Ambria Kunzel, Service Center Manager Richard Dargel, administrative assistant Michelle Rulo and Equipment Coordinator Frank Pietropallo. 6 Veteran shop foreman Rich Scalese guides a group of 25 mechanics and welders at the company's 12-bay Hackensack service center. In top 200 Today, J. Fletcher Creamer & Son, Inc. is ranked as one of the top 200 contractors in the United States by Engineering News-Record and works nationwide. “Our main office is right here in Hackensack,” said Fletch, Jr. “We run all of our utility work out of our office in Linden, New Jersey. We do our guide rails and overhead sign structures out of Folsom, New Jersey. We have offices near Washington D.C. and Atlanta. Then we’re on the West Coast in Los Angeles and the Oakland, California, area. To date the company has worked in 32 states.” The company even started its own environmental division, Creamer Environmental, Inc., five years ago, which also has its offices in Hackensack. About 40 percent of J. Fletcher Creamer & Son’s work is public. The firm is a union contractor. “I believe we’re the most diversified contractor in the entire Northeast as far as the types of work we’ll do,” commented Fletch, Jr. “We do heavy construction, highways, roads and bridges. We do our own pile-driving and steel-sheeting work. “And we still do small work — blasting for swimming pools and houses,” he continued. “We haven’t let that go. And like I said earlier, we do the traditional utility work — water, some sewer, telephone, gas, electric, substations. We’ve done a tremendous amount of fiber-optic work over the last four years.” Miles of fiber optics J. Fletcher Creamer crews have installed hundreds of miles of fiber-optic cable since they pioneered the field 20 years ago. “We’ve done some major jobs in California, fiber work up in the Tehachapi Mountains,” said Fletch, Jr. “We did a job in Tennessee last year, 130 miles from Chattanooga to Nashville, all rock. We just finished a job in Vail, Colorado, through Glenwood Canyon. It was just 13 miles along the Colorado River, but it is a pretty sensitive area. “It was a tough job,” he commented. “We dug off of trailers and finished up ahead of schedule. We received a letter from the Colorado DOT, which was probably the best commendation letter I’ve read in my life. They said we were the best contractor Colorado has ever seen.” J. Fletcher Creamer & Son took advantage of the recent telecommunications boom. “Four years ago we did about $16 million in fiber optics,” he explained. “Then we went to $43 million and to $60 million — we were almost up to $100 million in fiber-optic work. We took advantage of the market. Right now that market has tailed off, but we haven’t laid off a soul.” Unbelievable job, schedule On the highway side, one of the company’s most memorable projects was a joint venture with Joseph M. Sanzari, Inc., of North Bergen, New Jersey, and Gardner M. Bishop of White Plains, New York. The three companies submitted the low bid to rebuild the interchange at the intersection of State Highways 4 and 17 in Paramus, New Jersey, in 1998-99. “It was one of the most publicized jobs in this area, if not the whole country, just because of what we did to the schedule,” said Fletch, Jr. “It was a 30-month project. The state offered an incentive if we could do it in 24 months. “We re-staged and re-planned the job and went back to the state for an additional incentive because of the overtime we put in on it,” he explained. “We wound up, bottom line, finishing in 13 months — 17 months ahead of schedule. It’s still unbelievable. We even made the cover of Engineering News-Record.” The companies received a major bonus for completing the project ahead of schedule.
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