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  2. Screw piles - Wikipedia

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    Screw piles are typically manufactured from high-strength steel [1] using varying sizes of tubular hollow sections with helical flights. The pile shaft transfers a structure's load into the pile. Helical steel plates are welded to the pile shaft to suit the site specific ground conditions. Helices can be press-formed to a specified pitch or ...

  3. Piling - Wikipedia

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    Screw piles, also called helical piers and screw foundations, have been used as foundations since the mid 19th century in screw-pile lighthouses. [citation needed] Screw piles are galvanized iron pipe with helical fins that are turned into the ground by machines to the required depth. The screw distributes the load to the soil and is sized ...

  4. Foundation (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Shallow foundations of a house versus the deep foundations of a skyscraper. Foundation with pipe fixtures coming through the sleeves. In engineering, a foundation is the element of a structure which connects it to the ground or more rarely, water (as with floating structures), transferring loads from the structure to the ground.

  5. Southeast Michigan's rivers, watersheds struggle in ... - AOL

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    The lower Rouge River near Ford Field park in Dearborn on Friday, April 19, 2024. A new study grades Southeast Michigan's five rivers and their watersheds: Detroit, Rouge, Clinton, Huron and Raisin.

  6. Water in Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Map of Michigan rivers. Michigan has about 242 streams (rivers and creeks) with a combined length of 36,350 miles (58,500 km) and about 11,000 lakes and ponds. [1] Michigan borders four of the five Great Lakes and is a signatory to the Great Lakes Compact. [2] The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is responsible for the management of ...

  7. Cyntech - Wikipedia

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    Cyntech Group is a company founded in 1981 [1] which provides helical pile, helical rigid inclusion, and pipeline anchor engineering and manufacturing services for industrial markets. Milestones [ edit ]

  8. List of rivers of Michigan - Wikipedia

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    This list of Michigan rivers includes all streams designated rivers although some may be smaller than those streams designated creeks, runs, brooks, swales, cuts, bayous, outlets, inlets, drains and ditches. These terms are all in use in Michigan.

  9. Pigeon River (Huron County, Michigan) - Wikipedia

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    The Pigeon River, also known as the East Branch Pigeon River, is a 37.9-mile-long (61.0 km) [2] stream in Huron County in the Thumb of the U.S. state of Michigan. The stream rises from the confluence of Appin and Livingston drains [1] in southern Sheridan Township. It flows north and west to empty into the Saginaw Bay of Lake Huron in Caseville [1]