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Henry Ford Community College integrates StormTrap’s storm water management solutions.
“The site also needed a system to contain the stormwater and release it slowly. It had to have the capacity to handle the volume as well as preserve as much green space as possible, and it had to leave room for future expansion of the college.”
“That focused us on underground,” says Cooper. “We saw vaults as the most efficient, economical solution for the quantity of water we had to detain. Anything shallower would have taken a larger footprint.”
We used StormTrap to expand the amount of useful area for stormwater management. The site also has a grass-bottomed retention basin on the property. Putting in a StormTrap accomplished the client’s goals, as there wasn’t enough usable space on the surface.
StormTrap’s precast modular stormwater detention systems were selected in two stormwater retrofit projects recently completed by V3 Companies of Woodbridge, IL, a firm that serves clients’ land development, natural resources, and infrastructure needs.
The National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA) will stick to its Preferred Future game plan as it grows in 2008 and launches a new trade show in 2009. “NPCA has laid out its strategic goals, which have been guiding us for the past six years,” says 2008 NPCA Chairman Philip Burkhart, who is vice president and general manager of Utility Concrete Products LLC, Morris, Ill. “Our visionary leaders set out a path, and we will follow it.”
StormTrap manufactures stormwater management system for the Canadian National Intermodal Automated Gate System
“This has been an existing railroad yard for years,” says Chad Hewitt, P.E., the project design and management consulting engineer for the project. Because it was paving areas that weren’t previously paved, CN was required to install stormwater detention to collect and detain runoff and divert it into the county drainage ditch.
CN chose a SingleTrap system from StormTrap in Morris, IL, a modular precast system of reinforced high-strength concrete, manufactured by StormTrap’s sister company, Utility Concrete Products LLC. “In this case, it was definitely because of the ability to put the system underground and not sacrifice driving or parking space,” says Hewitt. “There wasn’t room for an open pond that would be large enough. It was also because of the ability to expand the system in the future, if we decided to expand the area where the trucks come off the highway and drive up to the kiosk.” In addition, CN had a short deadline, and the StormTrap system could be installed in just one day.
StormTrap, Stormwater Equipment Manufacturers Association charter member. Stormwater best management practice (BMP) manufacturers have no problem assertively promoting their products as they tout the benefits of their offerings over those of other companies.
An underground detention system, StormTrap, was installed at the high school in 2008. The concrete modular stormwater detention system, built by precasters throughout the country, was chosen because of its expected longevity and the determination that ultimately it was the most economical viable system available.
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