The next round of superload deliveries to the Homer City Energy Campus will start today at the Schenley Docks in Armstrong County.
The convoy carrying another piece of heavy equipment for Homer City Generation’s new natural-gas fired power plant is expected to start this morning. Leaving the docks, the route this time will go to Route 66 through Leechburg and Apollo to Delmont then to Route 22. It will pull off near the Westmoreland/Indiana County Line near Blairsville to install additional equipment as needed to continue to transport into Indiana County. Around 7:00 PM, the convoy will travel at a very slow speed and vehicles will be unable to pass it. Detours will be posted using Bairdstown Road/West Market Street to East Market Street/Old William Penn Highway to the Route 22/119 interchange. The load will pull off for the night near Blairsville and resume travel around 9:00 AM the following day to finish the trip.
Speeds of 10 to 25 miles an hour are expected, and at some points, the convoy will move slower. There will be additional single-day trips throughout the scheduled times and that will cause slowdowns but no closures along the route.
PennDOT says the deliveries will continue Monday through Fridays over the next two weeks, along with November 2nd through the 5th.
