AIRPORT BOARD OKAYS PURCHASE OF THREE CNG-FUELED STREET SWEEPERS
(Los Angeles, California – June 23, 2008) Three compressed natural gas (CNG)-fueled single-engine street sweepers to be used at Los AngelesInternationalAirport (LAX) and LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT) have been approved for purchase by the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners. The contract, in the amount of $799,398, will be awarded to the Haaker Equipment Company of La Verne, CA.
The three alternative-fuel street sweepers will replace similar units presently in use at LAX and ONT that have reached the end of their useful lives. The equipment is used to perform maintenance work on the two airports’ airfield taxiways, service roads and surrounding areas. Two will be used at LAX and one at ONT.
Since the Board’s adoption in 1999 of LAWA’s Alternative-Fuel Vehicle Program, airport officials believe that alternative-fuel vehicles are an important element to reducing air emissions in the region.
Efforts are continuing to convert all of the vehicle fleets at LAWA’s four airports -- LAX, ONT, LA/Palmdale Regional and Van Nuys -- to alternative-fuel use. There are presently more than 650 alternative-fuel vehicles, or more than 60 percent of LAWA’s fleet, powered by alternative fuels.