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  2. EZ-7 - Wikipedia

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    EZ-7 is a famous skate-spot located in Houston, Texas, USA. [1] The EZ-7 is easily recognized by its large amount of graffiti covering the drainage ditch. As described in a 1985 article: [2] EZ-7 is unique. It has that added concrete extension and an adjoining ditch to soak your board in. It is actually a drainage ditch located in northwestern ...

  3. Southern Star Concrete - Wikipedia

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    Argos acquired full ownership of Southern Star Concrete in November 2005 in a purchase agreement with the former owners, Texas Growth Fund and Austin Ventures, both based in Austin, Texas. In 2019, Southern Star sold their Arkansas assets to SRM Concrete, a privately-owned materials supply company based out of Nashville, Tennessee.

  4. A-Jacks - Wikipedia

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    Open channel applications include bank stabilization, flow and grade control, scour protection for bridge piers, and biostabilization. The primary mechanism of protection employed is an increase in the relative roughness of the channel bank (as characterized by the Manning's Roughness Coefficient ); the Manning's n is relatively high at 0.1.

  5. Culvert - Wikipedia

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    A culvert under the Vistula river levee and a street in Warsaw. Construction or installation at a culvert site generally results in disturbance of the site's soil, stream banks, or stream bed, and can result in the occurrence of unwanted problems such as scour holes or slumping of banks adjacent to the culvert structure.

  6. TXI - Wikipedia

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    TXI was founded in 1946. In 1994, with an annual revenue of $614M, the company ranked 500th on the Fortune 500 list by annual revenue. [2] [ FN 1]. In January 2014, Martin Marietta Materials (), a rival provider of construction materials, agreed to buy TXI for $2.06 billion in stock.

  7. Types of concrete - Wikipedia

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    Stamped concrete is an architectural concrete that has a superior surface finish. After a concrete floor has been laid, floor hardeners (can be pigmented) are impregnated on the surface and a mold that may be textured to replicate a stone / brick or even wood is stamped on to give an attractive textured surface finish.

  8. Revetment - Wikipedia

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    Asphalt and sandbag revetment with a geotextile filter. A revetment in stream restoration, river engineering or coastal engineering is a facing of impact-resistant material (such as stone, concrete, sandbags, or wooden piles) applied to a bank or wall in order to absorb the energy of incoming water and protect it from erosion.

  9. Asphalt concrete - Wikipedia

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    Asphalt batch mix plant A machine laying asphalt concrete, fed from a dump truck. Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, [1] blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. [2]