Rain Slows Widening of Nova Road, Port Orange, FL
Modern Continental South was awarded the $32-million Florida Department of Transportation contract to widen State Road 5A, commonly known as Nova Road, in Port Orange, FL. The main focus of the project is to widen the rural 2-lane road into an urban ... Read More
DW Pump Uses Thompson Pumps to Evaporate Problem
DW Pumps, a new addition to the nationwide Thompson Pump distributor network with locations in Sacramento and Oakland, CA, was instrumental in solving an almost
unsolvable dewatering application during construction of a new subdivision outside Sacra... Read More
Heavy Rains Cause Major Problems Along Roswell Road
Heavy rains in north-central Georgia led to the collapse and sinking of the two lanes of a heavily traveled road near Atlanta, causing, in turn, the collapse of a retention wall protecting the road from an adjacent lake. In addition, the damage threa... Read More
Flood Relief For the City of Deltona, FL
The city of Deltona, FL had experienced an exorbitant amount of rainfall during the summer of 2002, causing the many lakes to overflow and many residential areas to flood. As much as 100-million gallons was threatening to damage many homes. The avera... Read More
Sinkhole Causes Problems for the Georgia Power Plant Bowen
The rain that pelted the southeast in 2002 surely caused its share of damage.
At the Georgia Power Plant Bowen, in Atlanta, GA, the heavy rain combined with a water byproduct of the plant’s cooling towers to cause the ash site behind the power plant... Read More
Dewatering On Interstate 4 Construction
Interstate 4 is one of Florida’s most heavily traveled highways. Running east and west-bound, I-4 connects Daytona Beach on the east coast, and Tampa on the west coast and runs right through the heart of downtown Orlando, and supports the rapid growt... Read More
Thompson Pumps Assists in Relieving Flooding From Hurricanes
Forecasters predicted that the 2004 Hurricane Season was to be an active one. Within the span of two months, Tropical Storm Bonnie and Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne slammed Florida’s Gulf and Atlantic coasts bringing heavy winds,... Read More
