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Crushing, Screening & Recycling Section
The Keestrack Frontier from Equipment East processes material at the Twin States Sand and Gravel quarry.
Twin State Sand and Gravel Finds Success With Keestrack Twin State Sand and Gravel, a construcHurricane Damage tion aggregate materials supplier for the Brings Opportunity upper Connecticut River Valley region of In the fall of 2011, Hurricane Irene brought New Hampshire and Vermont, was estabwidespread devastation to Vermont and New lished in 1947 to supply the concrete and Hampshire. According to Bud Ames, Twins aggregates that would be needed for the conState Sand and Gravel president and costruction of the Wilder dam. Since 1947 owner, the demand for aggregate products in Twin State Sand and Gravel has continued to their area after the hurricane was unbelievprovide aggregate materials for use in able. In order to meet the need for material asphalt paving, concrete, utility construction, Twin State needed to dramatically increase municipal road maintenance and any other its production levels. The demand was parapplicable uses. ticularly high for 7-in. minus, which was Twin State gravel and ledge products being spec’d heavily by DOT. In reality, the come from its Hartland quarry in North demand for all sized materials was up signifHartland, Vt. A wide variety of aggregate icantly. materials also are available at its West “Our plant superintendent, Jim Benjamin, Lebanon, N.H., facility. The Lebanon facilirecommended that we move in the direction ty is 92-acres and is set up for the processing of getting a scalping screener,” said Ames. of stone and asphalt production. All of the (L-R) are Bud Ames, president of Twin State Sand & Gravel; Richard Zibell, sales “To accomplish this we rented a Keestrack material originates from the Hartland quarry, representative of Equipment East; Jim Benjamin, plant superintendent; and Seth see KEESTRACK page 88 which is permitted for 500-acres. Ames, special projects manager.