11/25/06 Looking south from Fish Creek Road, a wrap around view of structural steel forming the wallboard plant machine building can been seen. It sits atop a recently elevated 70-ft. high plateau that is the footprint foundation for the project.

11/25/06 Steel structural framing begins to rise at the CertainTeed Moundsville WV wallboard site. AEP's coal production facility towers are visible in the background.

10/25/06 Construction work at CertainTeed's Moundsville, WV site is now elevated about 60 ft. above the the Fish Creek wterway flood boundaries and concrete footers and foundations are underway. AEP's Mitchell Plant is in the background.

10/25/06 A view from WV Route 2 at the worksite shows contrast of elevation differences achieved in the past 10 months.

10/25/06 Atop the recently elevated and expansive worksite, construction crews continue forming the footprint with material framework visible in the foreground. The breadth of the site continues hundreds of yards into the distance toward an abutting ridgeline.

10/25/06 Heavy equipment continues to systematically excavate, move, deposit, level, and compact the hillside into fill material (background) in preparation for the next phase of actual building erection.

9/25/06 Graders, dozers, heavy rollers, pans, backhoes and other equipment move hilltops into ravines.

8/17/06 A drilling rig prepares blast holes for explosive insertions atop about a 60-ft. "high wall" at CertainTeed Moundsville site. Explosives are used to loosen the rock strata in a controlled detonation.

7/12/06 The compacted site level continues to rise toward the hillside peak between the Ohio River and the Fish Creek Basin. Dirt and rock continues to be extracted from the top and redeposited in lower lying areas.

6/19/06 A water runoff containment area takes shape as excavation effort works around location of temporary construction offices at site.

6/19/06 A Case equipment bulldozer cuts a pathway around the hillside site with reinforced wide mouth blade and rear claw at the CertainTeed Moundsville, WV site.

5/24/06 ACAT heavy duty dump truck deposits rock and dirt into a low lying plain from nearby hillside excavation operations. More than 750,000 cubic yards of earth are being moved for the CertainTeed gypsum plant footprint.

5/24/06 AEP Mitchell Plant's cooling towers and smokestack are part of the skyline from a view across Fish Creek looking north at CertainTeed's new gypsum manufacturing plant site near Moundsville, WV. Excavation, fill and compaction work will continue throughout the year.

4/18/06 Workers are "layering" rock and dirt in filling the low side of the site.

4/4/06 Earthwork is well underway at CertainTeed's developing wallboard production facility near Moundsville, WV. on the Ohio River. Site preparation, including excavation, stabilization and infrastructure construction is scheduled throughout the remainder of the year.

4/4/06 American Electric Power (AEP's) Mitchell Plant, cooling tower, scrubber and emissions stack, can be seen in the background.