About R&L Development Company

R&L Development Company History

In 1969, R & L Development Company was founded in New Alexandria, PA by brothers Dale and James Latimer to bid on the fly ash hauling and disposal contract at the newly constructed Homer City Generating Station (Homer City, Pennsylvania).  R & L was the successful bidder on the contract and has been the only ash hauling contractor operating at the plant since it came online in that year.

In 1976, R & L used the experience gained at Homer City to successfully bid the ash hauling and disposal service at Conemaugh Generating Station (New Florence, Pennsylvania). Along with the Conemaugh contract, R&L was awarded the ash hauling and disposal at Seward Generating Station(Seward, PA) until it’s decommission as a coal fired plant in 2003.

In 1984, R & L was successful in bidding the ash hauling and disposal at Keystone Generating Station (Shelocta, Pennsylvania).

In 1985, R & L successfully bid and installed its first ash disposal site liner system at Conemaugh Generating Station.  Current day R&L remains the residual waste hauling and disposal contractor at Homer City, Conemaugh and Keystone Generating Stations and has installed every liner expansion, with one exception, at all three Stations since 1985.

In 1994, R & L successfully bid the ash hauling and disposal contract at Shawville Generating Station (Shawville, Pennsylvania) and performed the ash hauling and disposal contract services until the plant was decommissioned as a coal fired plant and converted to natural gas in 2016.

In 2004, it was requested by plant operator, Reliant Energy, that R & L take over the fly ash haul and disposal at Portland Generating Station.  R&L continued as the residual waste disposal contractor at Portland Station until the plant was decommissioned in 2015.

In 2011, R & L was awarded the Presidential Award for Safety by our insurance carrier for operating for three years or 1 million man-hours without a lost-time accident.

In 2013, R & L was selected as the Operations and Maintenance Supplier of the Year by NRG Energy.

In 2017, at the request of NRG, R&L initiated ash hauling services at Cheswick Power Station (Cheswick, PA).

With the advent of scrubber units being added to Homer City, Conemaugh and Keystone Generating Stations there have been numerous additional services at these plants.  Some of these services include the handling of the scrubber by-product, synthetic gypsum, either being loaded into rail cars for off-site transportation or being hauled to the disposal site.  In addition to the loading of rail cars R&L has taken on the responsibility of unloading railcars of limestone to support the scrubber operation.  To aid in the loading and unloading of rail cars R&L owns and maintains locomotives to provide the necessary resources to provide the best service to our generating station clients.