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City plans $300k in street improvements for 2022

Clarendon Live 27 Jul 2022

July 27, 2022 by Roger Estlack Leave a Comment ... The $186,000 project, which will last about 40 days, will install concrete curbs and gutters and lay down hot mix asphalt for the road surface. Concrete driveway approaches will also be installed at existing driveways, Dockery said ... ....

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35th Avenue, O Street intersection to close to through traffic for roundabout construction

The Tribune Greeley 27 Jul 2022

Crews will be completing construction on the roundabout planned for the intersection, including completing all concrete and asphalt paving, all driveways and field accesses, and the installation of all drainage pipes.

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Ready to rodeo: Preston arena updated in time for annual spectacle

HJ News 27 Jul 2022

... more than they anticipated for steel and concrete ... We have had electricians, concrete people, equipment operators, asphalt layers, Hanson Sports, Rocky Mountain Power, and a rodeo committee that works year round to have this event and facility be top in the Intermountain West .”.

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Commissioners issue fire disaster declaration

Athens Daily Review 27 Jul 2022

The Henderson County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to issue a 30 day disaster declaration in response to the elevated threat of wildfires brought about by the prolonged drought conditions. County Judge Wade McKinney issued a disaster declaration July 21. Gov ... • sold an Asphalt Zipper belonging to Precinct 4 to Mercury Concrete Inc. for $40,000 ....

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Ready to rodeo: Arena ready for annual spectacle as seating replacement project finished

HJ News 27 Jul 2022

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Trees Can Help Beat the Heat

The Ponca City News 27 Jul 2022

In-page image(s). Body. Sitting in the AC, I look out the window and smile as dogs being walked collapse under the shade of my Norway maple ... This has been one of the few times I’ve given thanks I’m not in Paris ... The concrete, metal and asphalt of cities soak up heat and radiate it back ... Gotham is not all “concrete canyons,” as lore would have it ... .

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Opinion: Planting more trees can help us beat the heat

Lawrence Journal World 27 Jul 2022

Sitting in the AC, I look out the window and smile as dogs being walked collapse under the shade of my Norway maple ... This has been one of the few times I’ve given thanks I’m not in Paris ... The concrete, metal and asphalt of cities soak up heat and radiate it back ... Gotham is not all “concrete canyons,” as lore would have it ... ....

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Bring back the tolls – Civil Engineer to government

Joy Online 27 Jul 2022

A Civil Engineer, Ing ... “If you’re doing a dual carriage now in Ghana, to and fro, and if you take let’s say Ofankor and you’re just taking one kilometer of a dual carriage to and back, so you’re having a four lane, it’s in the region of 3.2, 3.4 million US dollars, an asphaltic binder concrete cost.

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Froma Harrop: Trees can help beat the heat

Corvallis Gazette-Times 27 Jul 2022

Sitting in the AC, I look out the window and smile as dogs being walked collapse under the shade of my Norway maple. And who could blame them? Would any of us want to be out in this harsh heat wearing a fur coat? ... The concrete, metal and asphalt of cities soak up heat and radiate it back ... Gotham is not all "concrete canyons," as lore would have it.

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Record rains flood St. Louis, killing one; prompts rescues

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 27 Jul 2022

O'FALLON, Mo. -- Record rainfall caused widespread flash flooding across the St ... One person died when a car in St. Louis was found covered in more than 8 feet of water ... Peters, a St ... A bigger factor, he said, was that the storm hit a metro area with a lot of concrete and asphalt, rather than grassy areas that could absorb the moisture more readily ... Gov ... .

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Record rain causes heavy flooding in St. Louis area; 1 dead

Times Free Press 27 Jul 2022

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Record rainfall caused widespread flash flooding across the St ... One person died when a car in St ... Peters, a St. Louis suburb ... Louis metropolitan area ... Louis ... A bigger factor, he said, was that the storm hit a metro area with a lot of concrete and asphalt, rather than grassy areas that could absorb the moisture more readily.

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Water down the drains

El Campo Leader-News 27 Jul 2022

Water’s rising above El Campo city streets on a fairly regular basis, the telltale sign of yet another broken waterline and little to nothing falling from the sky. Utility Department crews have cut through asphalt and concrete to repair 33 mains this month through July 25. That’s in comparison to 35 mains from April 1 to June 30 ... or 8 p.m ... ....

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In San Antonio, the poor live on their own islands of heat

The Buffalo News 27 Jul 2022

The heat is inescapable in the city's historic Westside, where the high ratio of asphalt to green space – along with old structures, freight trains and an abundance of concrete – creates the kind of "heat island effect" that is known to lead to higher energy consumption, more pollution and a greater risk of related health problems ... ....

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We created scorching 'heat islands' in East Coast cities. Now they're becoming unlivable

The Evening Tribune 27 Jul 2022

She lives on the edge of a type of "heat island," with wide stretches of concrete that bake in the sun and retain heat ... Blocks of shops and long treeless stretches of asphalt and concrete trap the heat in Old Towne ... of taller apartment buildings and scalding pavement and asphalt.

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BMC to up allocation for concrete roads by 10.5% after Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde's diktat

The Times of India 26 Jul 2022

Construction of concrete roads while 20% costlier than asphalt are known to be more durable ... BMC has under its jurisdiction 2,039 km of roads, of which it has already concretized 1,400 km ... In the 2022-23 budget, the BMC had announced that about 219.25 km are proposed to be improved (206.72 km in cement concrete and 12.53 km in asphalt).