This quarter we want to highlight an important local project that Savage Stone is pleased to be able to support. Catastrophic flooding in 2016 and
2018 devastated much of Historic Ellicott City. Three people were killed in the two floods and hundreds of buildings sustained significant flood damage, some were completely destroyed.
Savage Stone played an important part in the clean-up and remediation of both of those historic flood events—providing massive quantities of erosion control stone to help shore up failing slopes and prevent farther damage. In late 2018 the Ellicott City Safe and Sound flood mitigation plan was introduced as a solution.
More than 5 years of research and planning yielded a complex water management system including a 5,000+ foot long, 18 foot diameter tunnel to be mined 150 feet below existing Historic Ellicott City. Kiewit-Traylor, JV was contracted by Howard County to construct the North Tunnel which would be blasted and bored under structures in order to convey flood water safely to the Patapsco River. A significant challenge for the tunnel was having enough room for the extracted rock to be removed and sorted.
Kiewit-Traylor, JV only had about 2 acres to access the tunnel access shaft. Local hauling company Bulldog Trucking reached out to Savage Stone to propose a 3 party solution for the Ellicott City project. Bulldog Trucking was already a frequent customer of Savage Stone and could aid Kiewit-Traylor, JV by moving the material out of the confined 2 acres, close by to Savage for sorting. Savage had the right heavy machinery and expertise to sort the tunnel rock and recycle it back to industry needs without any increase in truck traffic.
Savage is proud to team up with Kiewit-Traylor, JV and Bulldog Trucking to serve Howard County on this important project to help keep Ellicott City safe.