"The southern elevator is packed with lime silica, a component of cement, that a company called Mt. Carmel Stabilization brings in by barge." [Chicago Tribune, Aug 27, 2023, p17]
The elevator on the other side of the slip is abandoned.
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| Paul Petraitis shared Daniel Bovino's photo Port Of Chicago at Lake Calumet under construction Summer of 1956 |
If you like videos where every platitude, especially customer satisfaction, is said more than once by different talking heads, then this 3:54 video (source) is for you. Fortunately, they did sneak in some interesting video clips between the heads. All of the screenshots below are from this video.
"We can walk into a site that at the start of the day you couldn't hardly walk across in your own boots and at the end of the day they can drive a semi on it and not make a dent in it." [@ 2:52]
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They design and build their own spreaders and have 60 of them. Since the focus of the video is platitudes instead of information, it doesn't mention what they are spreading. I think they spread lime silica or cement depending on the soil condition. They do mention that they have 10 storage facilities. I think they said that their total storage is 500,000 tons. (I'm not going to suffer through that video again to confirm that number. BTW, if you want an example of a video that is all information and no platitudes, check out this one.)
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| mtcsg_timeline In 1995, they stabilized millions of square yards for the New Denver International Airport. |
The next day I came across this alternate solution for soft soils.
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I did not download this eBook because it requires a registration. But maybe some readers are willing to do that.
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| Tensar Americas posted Our free ebook compares the pros and cons of stabilizing bad soils with chemicals and geogrid. Download your copy. |
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