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Cultec Inc.'s Larger, More Flexible Stormwater Chambers Staff - 05/15/2008
Cultec Inc.'s redesigned stormwater detention/retention chamber offers a number of features and benefits including greater capacity, superior manifold design flexibility and enhanced shipping capabilities. The Recharger® 330XL stormwater chamber will be replacing the company's existing Recharger® 330 model and features a chamber storage capacity of 52.
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Westside Recreation Center By Liz Moucka - 05/05/2008
As neighborhoods grew in El Paso's northwest side, the city's Parks and Recreation Dept. sought to create a positive neighborhood influence near the West Hills housing development. Working With Nature Available land on the west side of the Franklin Mountain Range has become premium, but a 100-acre area of rainwater detention ponds held promise.
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Conveyor Innovation Speeds Concrete Placement By Kirk A. McWilliams, P.E. - 05/05/2008
Getting concrete from the mixer to the forms in the quickest manner possible is always a primary concern for those in the concrete construction business. When placement sizes vary from 300 cubic yards to 800 cubic yards at a time, the logistics of this material-handling dilemma are magnified even more.
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Deep Sewer Installation Upgrades Infrastructure Edited by Christina Fisher - 04/28/2008
Sometimes the solution to a problem is so ideal that it can be applied repeatedly. This was the case when officials of the city of High Point, North Carolina, decided to replace an entire interceptor system instead of just one sanitary sewer. The old sewer was concrete, but they wanted pipe with a much longer service life.
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Storm Water BMP Restores Stream Staff - 04/14/2008
One of the purposes of a storm water best management practice (BMP), such as a wet pond, is to protect streams below the BMP from erosion and bank scour. Natural channel design can play a major role in achieving this BMP when trying to improve older urban watersheds that were "built out" prior to today's stringent regulations.
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Landscaping Albuquerque's "Big I" By Bruce Higgins - 04/14/2008
The intersection of interstates 25 and 40 in Albuquerque is known locally as the "Big I." The original Big I was built in the mid-1960s at a time when the Interstate Highway System did not connect through Albuquerque, and therefore traffic routing and maintenance were of no concern. Construction of the original interchange was rather isolated from local traffic, and there was no cross-country t...
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JCB Hosts Inaugural Roadshow At Savannah Factory Contractors and other industry representatives from throughout the region converged on the JCB factory in Savannah for the first of several JCB Roadshows scheduled for various locations.
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