CULTEC Storm Water Management Chambers Aid Minnesota Retail Development
Recently, construction began on Vicksburg Marketplace, a new retail development on the corner of Highway 55 and Vicksburg Lane in Plymouth, Minn. This new shopping center will include a 29,000 sq ft Fresh Thyme grocery store, a 20,600 sq ft Goodwill store and a 2,080 sq ft Starbucks coffee shop with a drive-through. Located adjacent to one of the city’s busiest intersections, the engineering team was faced with stringent city regulations for the development of this previously vacant area.
Beginning in early 2015, engineers from Sambatek collaborated with the sales and technical staff at CULTEC, Inc. to develop the storm water management for the 6.5-acre site. The site’s layout needed to adhere to the City’s watershed district regulations requiring abstraction, or permanent retention of runoff, of the first inch of rainfall on new developments or redevelopments over the entire site for permeability. Since the soil at the site consisted of clay, the area to be developed cannot meet this infiltration requirement naturally and the project team was required to find a storm water management solution that could allow for adequate storage until filtration could occur. Because of the limited green space of the area, the team found they would need to explore an underground chamber system.
As the project team began to research underground storm water solutions, they were faced with a major challenge: the connection point for the storm sewer was uncharacteristically high, which resulted in the need for a low-profile solution with high volume capability. After extensive inquiry, it was discovered that CULTEC storm water management chambers could accommodate this low height requirement while providing the much-needed high volume capability.
“Finding a system that was small enough in height, with enough chamber capacity and enough cover between the storm water chambers and the soon-to-be parking lot was very difficult,” said Mike Bultman, Project Manager at Sambatek.
The team was able to install the largest portion of the storm water system within a few days, allowing for quick project progression in this busy area. The entire project is marked for completion in 2016.
Source: CULTEC
