Circularity in Your City

Holcim Construction in Pueblo, Colorado is completing a major recreation and safety project along the Arkansas River led by Project Manager Angela George and Superintendent Tim Provost. The pre-existing dam was dangerous and had been known to cause fatalities and injuries due to the turbulent water created by the drop. Holcim is creating, instead, a spillway with multiple drop structures that can be used recreationally and is safe for kayakers, rafters, river surfers, and tubers alike. This picture shows Holcim Superintendent Tim Provost breaking apart the pre-existing dam’s concrete. This concrete is broken to size specification to act as backfill. Holcim employees utilized this concrete that would have otherwise been discarded to fill underneath the new spillway. This decision saved concrete from ending up in a landfill, and it saved emissions from trucking material from the quarry located approximately an hour away.

By Katelyn Griffiths, USA