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.
