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Monday, 23 July 2007 00:00
DeKALB – As the Illinois Department of Transportation improves its tollway, contractors have chosen County Materials’ reinforced concrete box culverts to lie at the heart of it all.
The project at Interstate 88 and Peace Road will entail adding liner-loop ramps and expanding two automatic toll plazas to two lanes. This included making the toll plazas I-PASS-ready, which meant placing 5 miles of fiber-optic cable and fiber-optic toll-collection equipment. Other features of this roadwork include widening of crossroad approach pavement, erosion and sedimentation control, and building ramp infields and detention ponds.
To those ends, Rockford Blacktop Construction Company, out of Loves Park, is installing 306 box culverts from County Materials, each 12 feet wide by 5 feet high and 6 feet long. These precast structures will help divert water through and around the project.
County Materials operates 30 locations serving the Midwest. The family-owned, American manufacturing company is an industry leader and a diversified supplier of construction and landscaping products for residential, commercial, industrial and municipal project applications.
For more information, call us at 1-800-289-2569.
Wednesday, 20 June 2007 00:00
MINNEAPOLIS – Some local companies have collaborated on an interesting answer to the 
question of where to put a retention pond when there’s no room on site; go underground.
That’s what Veit Companies did with more than 1,500 linear feet of gasketed concrete pipe from County Materials in Roberts, Wis. Veit is constructing a network of 672 linear feet of 96-inch diameter pipe that will aid in redirection and filtration of stormwater runoff for American Iron on Pacific Street. In addition to the pipe, County Materials’ Roberts facility is supplying numerous sizes of precast manhole units.
“It’s going good,” said Eric Antil, who is overseeing the project for Veit. “We worked with them (County Materials) on customizing all the different sizes.”
The 96-inch pipe will hold 1.2 feet of standing water at any given time, helping solid sediment settle out. After the water passes through an extensive filtration system, 24-inch pipe will carry it into the Mississippi River, which borders the site. About 600 linear feet of 36-inch pipe will help step down from the 96-inch to the 24-inch pipe.
County Materials operates 30 locations serving the Midwest. The family-owned, American company is an industry leader in the manufacture and distribution of concrete block, brick, stone, ready-mix, hollowcore, pipe, pavers, retaining walls and Aggregate Finish products for residential, commercial and municipal construction and landscaping.
For more information, call us at 1-800-289-2569 and ask for a product guide.