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Martin C. Pettesch Universal Valve Company, Elizabeth At age 31, Martin Pettesch is quickly developing a reputation in the oil equipment industry for innovation as the developer of some 55 products including 10 patents and six patents pending. He is the developer of the observation monitoring-well manhole cover, hose retractors, a sealing plug for a monitoring well, a movable manhole cover, and an underground service vault. At present, he has another 15 products in research and development. The Observation Monitoring Well Manhole Cover is triangular in shape and features the standard API monitoring symbol. Before the invention, fuel transport drivers often mistook monitoring wells with the traditional round manholes for entrances to underground storage tanks. Filling the monitor wells with gasoline was a potential environmental catastrophe. The triangular cover eliminates the potential for accidental filling of the monitoring wells. Pettesch developed the Observation Monitoring Well Manhole Cover in 1990 while a Cooperative Education student from New Jersey Institute of Technology. A graduate of New Jersey Institute of Technology, Pettesch is vice president of engineering for Universal