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    Formula for number of shaker plates to use in entrance

    Is there a given formula to figure out the proper length of, or number of shaker plates (corrugated steel plates)that should be used in a stabilized construction entrance? For example, should the length of the plates be determined by the circumference of the tire crossing it? Any advice...
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    Stabilized Construction Entrance Steel Grate

    I am implementing SCE's into several job sites, with corrugated steel plates (wash racks). We don't actually plan on using the wash racks for their intended purposes, but rather as a method to rplace the large amounts of gravel & rock that usually end up requirng extensive maintenance. Could...
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    Proper placement of Emergency Spillway for Basin

    Brian- Thanks for the tip. Would it be safe to say that a more permanent basin would be a more appropriate place to have the emergency spillway offset from the main outlet? The emergency spillway is actually draining into a dissipated common channel, that eventually leads to another basin down...
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    Proper placement of Emergency Spillway for Basin

    I am having trouble deciding where the best place to locate an emergency spillway on a retention basin would be. Would it be directly over the main outlet barrel, cutting through the middle face of the basin's embankment, and meeting with the outlet's flow at the toe of the basin? Or, would...

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