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Leaky Pipe Causes Soggy Fairway

You’ve done all you can to improve your golf game from mechanics to new clubs. You stand on the tee box and smash the prettiest drive of your life and then…plop!  No, not the pond, it’s from your golf...

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Infrastructure Report Card – OUCH!

I don’t know about you, receiving a D in school was the result of obvious neglect on my part. I could think of every excuse imaginable but in the end, I was personally responsible for my grades.  When...

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Ever Get that Sinkhole Feeling?

It takes planning and good leadership to decide on an effective solution to problems associated with a building asset. Recently, a large wholesale warehouse facility in Cincinnati began to experience...

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Pipe Rupture Causes Hospital Emergency

THE PROBLEM:  A water main rupture beneath the patient drop off and pick up ramp caused some large voids beneath the pavement.   A section of pavement was broken out to allow access for the plumbing...

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Sinking New Orleans Dealership Gets a Lift

Poor soil compaction from construction resulted in a slow, steady dropping of the automotive service center receiving ramp floor. The floor was on grade at the edges, but the center had dropped four...

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Erosion Control, Lake Pontchartrain

The recreational steps along the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain were built in 1929 and the soil beneath the steps has been eroding due to wave action, tidal action, and storms. The voids created...

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Sinking Drain Doesn’t Stop Church-Goers

Fellowship Church in Grapevine, TX was experiencing a settling problem with a parking lot storm drain. Settlement of up to 1.0” was noted, and the surrounding flat work was cracking due to the stress...

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Deep Injection for Sinkholes

The URETEK Deep Injection© Process offers customers a time and money saving solution for sinkhole repairs. Overview: • Weather events in regions with rain and floods have caused an extreme amount of...

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Portland Warehouse calls for The “WOW factor”

The “WOW factor” is an endeared term used by URETEK to describe the magic behind lifting extremely heavy concrete in a matter of hours, sometimes even minutes. Lifting concrete using expanding polymers...

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Grades Posted for US Infrastructure

Every 4 years, the American Society of Civil Engineers releases a Report Card for America’s Infrastructure that outlines the condition and performance of the nation’s infrastructure. Using the simple A...

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Repairing Mining Environmental Issues to Minimize Downtime

URETEK was asked to review a project involving void filling and stabilization of a thick concrete pad that supported a large electrical motor and a critical production pumping unit. LOCATION:...

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Fixing Soil Damage from Water Main Leak in Plant

Ogden, UTAH URETEK ICR Rocky Mountian was contacted by Cereal Foods, Inc. concerning undermining and settlement issues of the sub grade soils of the railway track and load out canopy area of the Ogden,...

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URETEK Saves Sinking Dome (Video)

When soil erosion threatens to shutdown one of the largest wallboard manufacturing operations in the United States, facility maintenance choose URETEK’s unique, innovative solution to solve a sinking...

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Pond Embankment Stabilization

An effluent pond in Southeast Texas was suffering from years of erosion. Recently, an escalation of subsurface water seepage through the pond’s embankment threatened the community’s main water source....

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Leaning Tower of Milk: 50,000 Gallon Tank Stabilized

Kentucky – One can easily make the parallel with the Leaning Tower of Pisa when a Kentucky food plant’s 50,000 gallon milk tank started to sink.  Below is URETEK’s project report results summary from a...

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10 Years Later: Andrews AFB Runway Repair

Maryland – During the late 1990’s, a significant dip developed in one of the runways at Andrews Air Force Base. Andrews Air Force Base is home to the President’s plane, Air Force One, one of the most...

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320,000 Gallon Tank Stabilization

N. Carolina- Business was booming at the Smithfield Meat Processing facility. In fact, business was so good that Smithfield Foods needed to expand their production capacity.  To enable this planned...

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Emergency Outfall Stabilization

Houston, TX – It has been a little over one year since URETEK assisted the USACE in stabilizing Addicks & Barker Reservoir Outlets. In May 2011, it will be two years since the United States Army...

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Sinking Floors Cause Runaway Carts

Customers reported their shopping carts would roll off if they were not holding on the cart… Texas – A Dallas/Ft. Worth Garden Ridge big box store experienced severe settlement inside their facility,...

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Unsportsmanlike: End Zone Tripping

Raleigh, NC – A minor settlement of the north end zone seating at Carter Finley Stadium threatened to trip up Wolfpack fans.  North Carolina State University turned to a unique solution offered by...

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