Sources: Gainey’s Concrete Products, Holden, La.; CP staff
An urgent LaBella Associates North Carolina office inquiry prompted Gainey’s Concrete Products to shift its fall production schedule to expedite delivery of a six precast elements three states east. The elements were central to restoring a sewer pump station serving Lake Lure, one of the Tarheel State’s harder hit areas from Hurricane Helene-driven weather. Damage to the facility resulted in the discharge of two towns’ sewerage to a local river.
“It was an environmental necessity for the station to be up and running again,” says Gainey’s Concrete CEO Lisa Roache. “This project was significant because of human welfare and the sanitary condition for the people of Lake Lure. Our hearts were really going out to North Carolina and the other areas affected because we’ve been in similar situations where our area was devastated, and we appreciated the people who had our backs.”
“Gainey’s Concrete worked with us to find the quickest solution for the emergency project and, as it turned out, had the precast on site ahead of when the contractor was ready to use it,” adds LaBella Associates’ Brian Houston, P.E., LEED AP. “Our experience was stellar.”