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Your Carolina States Connection • Richard McKeon, Charlotte, NC 1-800-288-4234

Construction Ramps Up at New Farmers Market Near Columbia After several years of planning and a controversy over where it should be located, the new South Carolina State Farmers Market is heading into its last months of construction before a scheduled April 17, 2010 grand opening.

The 174-acre site, located in Lexington County just to the southwest of Columbia, is currently a hive of construction activity as workers erect several buildings that will be part of the new, state-of-the-art farmers market.

The project is being developed through a partnership between the South Carolina Department of

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Agriculture (SCDA), Lexington County and a private development called 321 Associates. One of the partners in 321 Associates is Jim Anderson, the president of Structioneers Inc., which serves as the construction manager for the facility.

The SCDA is paying $22.5 million toward the project, with the rest of the funding coming from the county and private concerns. The total cost for the market could approach $70 million, according to David Tompkins, the manager of the state’s three farmer’s markets.

When the project was first announced in 2005, plans called see MARKET page 6

Crews working onsite for Senn Brothers Produce.

A look into one of the two farmer sheds that will be in the South Carolina State Farmers Market.

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CSI Keeps Communication Lines Open With Tools of the Trade

(L-R): Wayne Maddox, safety director, communicates with the men at the other end of the conduit, while foreman Travis Brown and workers Orlando Dorartes and Juventino Viveras send the mule tape through.

By Scott Ellenbecker SPECIAL TO CEG

When Communications Services Inc. (CSI) of Marshville, N.C., needs to run underground fiber optic line for telephone service to new housing developments, it relies on the Atlas Copco 185 series air compressor to provide the power for all of its tools.

On a recent subdivision project, CSI’s scope of work had involved running more than 3,000 ft. (914 m) of fiber optic cable through an underground conduit system that had already been installed. CSI used an Atlas Copco HardHat XAS 185 JD7 portable compressor to power the blow gun, which blows a missile tied to a length of mule tape or string to the other end of the conduit. The mule tape is 2,500-lb. test weight per square inch and will be used to pull the fiber optic cable back through the conduit.

The amount of air needed for the blow gun depends on the length and diameter of the pipe, and the number of turns or resistance. If the conduit is a mile long, for example, it would take two 185s or a 350

CSI uses Atlas Copco’s HardHat XAS 185 JD7 portable compressor, which features a polyethylene shell, on this project.

compressor.

“They’re running fiber all the way to the houses now,” said Travis Brown, a foreman of CSI. “Fire in the hole,” he laughed, alerting his team that the string is

moving down the conduit.

Three men are needed to keep the string moving at the right speed and tension. One man holds the spool of mule tape, which spins around a rake handle. The next

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man makes sure that the tension is slack on the string in order for the third worker to feed the string through the conduit. The worker stringing the mule tape must ensure the tension is just right or the string could bunch up. It is a hard and tedious job; the string is heavy and the air is powerful.

When the missile is at the end of the conduit, it is time to pull it out, attach the fiber optics cable and begin the process of winching the string back through the conduit.

Once the string has pulled the fiber back through the conduit, the fiber is ready to continue being strung above ground to the intended central station or node.

With a good team, the right tools — and the right compressor — CSI smoothly pulls the fiber optic cable through the underground conduit system.

“The 185 is a good all-around machine,” said Brown.

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S.C. State Farmers Market Rises on Raw, Wooded Land MARKET from page 1

for the new farmers market to be located in nearby Richland County.

Work had begun on the project when a dispute arose that forced the state to relocate the project across the Congaree River in Lexington County.

Construction at the new site began in August 2008. It is located off U.S. Highway 321 near Dixiana and only about 1.5 miles from both I-26 and I-77. Visitors to the market will be able to get there via the interchange at I-26 and U.S. 321, as well as another interchange at I-26 and U.S. 21/U.S. 176.

The current farmers market is about 10 miles away near downtown Columbia, just across from Williams-Brice Stadium, the football arena for the University of South Carolina (USC) Gamecocks. Once the market moves to its new location, the old property will be given to USC. Tompkins said that the land on which the new farmers market is being built was raw and undeveloped prior to construction.

“It is a flat, low area that was heavily wooded with pine trees,” Tompkins said. “Extensive clearing had to be done, a major storm water drainage system had to be put in and a retention pond was built.”

Bob Hammond Construction Inc. in Moncks Corner cleared the land for the project, Tompkins added.

The SCDA will operate the farmers market within two blocks of land at the site that encompass around 50 acres, Tompkins said.

Private development will take up the other 120 acres.

“We, at the SCDA, will house our administrative offices for the market activities, as well as our farmers sheds and maintenance operations, within one block of land,” he explained. “We will also have trucker sheds and a produce shed that can be up-fitted with coolers. In addition, the SCDA will have its food safety laboratories and consumer service labs onsite, but that facility will be separate from where our farmer sheds are located. We also are building con-

ference facilities that relate to the SCDA and all of these facilities will be available for public use.”

“The lab building is now under construction and will take up 25,000 square feet, the administrative building another 2,200 square feet and the conference center, which just began construction, another 10,000 square feet,” he said.

“Each of the farmers and truckers sheds are about 360 feet long by 85 feet wide,” Tompkins said, “and have space for 124 shopping stalls. They are designed so that area farmers can use the sheds as a place to park their pickup or

The farmers market administrative office, operated by the South Carolina Department of Agriculture, is taking shape.

flatbed trucks and sell direct to the public.”

“Another 15,000-square-foot building is under construction that acts as a large produce warehouse.

So far, the space has been leased to three farms from which to sell their wares,” Tompkins said.

“On the private development side, facilities are being built to house more of a retail produce Construction on one of the main roadways in the market, which in operation,” he added. “Here, prototal will have 2.5 mi. (4 km) of road running through it. duce retailers and wholesalers will bring in their goods for sale. In another part of the private block of land, produce distributors – those with warehouse operations – have purchased their own land within the development and are building their own warehouses. These are large commercial, full-line produce companies that will operate regardless of the season.”

Columbia-based Arnold Construction is building the laboratory facility, while the conference center is being erected by FBi Construction Inc. in Florence.

Structioneers is responsible for the building of the administrative facility, as well as the produce and farmer sheds. In addition, the firm is doing the infrastructure work.

That includes the water and sewer lines, curb and gutter work and a Prep work begins on the Severt & Son Produce wholesale ware- 10-acre retention pond. Company house.

President Jim Anderson said that almost all of that work has been completed.

Tompkins said that the SCDA would like to have everything completed by the April target date, to coincide with the South Carolina Spring Festival of Flowers event at the farmers market, but the agency is aware that the variables in construction will come into play.

“I would like to hold to that date, but obviously in construction, things don’t always go as planned,” he admitted. “For instance, October is usually our driest month of the year and it has turned out that it has been our wettest, by a five-fold amount. We have had something like 10 to 12 inches of rain this month. I know our conference facilities will not quite be ready and our maintenance shed will be finished later than that, but most everything else should be ready by the grand opening. I can tell you that the Festival of Flowers will be held at the site even if there are still a few things left to finish.”

(This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)

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Henry H. Taylor Becomes Chairman of SCDOT Commission Henry H. Taylor of moved into the corporate A.M.E. Church, Sunday School Lexington became chairman of arena as vice president of superintendent, chairman of the the South Carolina Department legal affairs for Laidlaw Steward Board, elected as a delof Transportation (SCDOT) Environmental Services, egate to the General Conference Commission on Dec. 3, sucand later with the Safety of the A.M.E. Church from ceeding F. Hugh Atkins of Kleen Corporation.

1972-2004.

Spartanburg.

In 2001, Taylor returned Stevenson has been honored Atkins, whose term on the to private practice as senior with citations for distinguished commission ends in February, partner in the Taylor Law service by several organizations has represented the 4th Firm in West Columbia including: the 1976 Citizen of Congressional District as an where his practice consists the Year Award by the Omega SCDOT Commissioner since primarily of civil litigation Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.; 1990 2006 and was first elected and commercial and busiOutstanding service Award by Chairman in June 2008. He ness matters. Taylor is the Community Action Agency; previously served on the comlicensed to practice in South 1987 Appreciation Award for mission from 1998 to 2002.

Carolina, the United States The commission unanimously elected Outstanding Service to the Congressional District Clemson Extension Service; Because Taylor had been Henry H. Taylor of Lexington became District Court for South 6th serving as vice chairman, he chairman of the South Carolina Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Commissioner Marvin Stevenson to 1999 Community Service automatically became chair- Department of Transportation Court of Appeals and the fill Taylor’s position as vice chair- Award for Outstanding man when Atkins stepped (SCDOT) Commission on Dec. 3.

United States Supreme man.

Community service by the Taylor used his training as a Court.

Board of Commission and served Community down.

Awareness The commission unanimously mechanical engineer in design Stevenson served as a Social until September 1976. In 1976, he Association; and was listed in the elected 6th Congressional District division at the former Charleston Studies teacher at his high school was elected as a member of the book of Outstanding Personalities Commissioner Marvin Stevenson Naval Shipyard in Charleston. He Alma Mater for 24 years (1961 to Marion County Council. He of the South. Stevenson has to fill Taylor’s position as vice primarily prepared and coordinat- 1985) and became the attendance served as chairman of the Marion received citations for Outstanding ed test programs for mechanical supervisor of Marion County County Council 1982 to 1987 and Community Services from the chairman. from 1994 until Aug. 29, 2003.

Taylor has represented the 2nd systems on Polaris submarines.

Schools in 1985.

Marion County Council, City of Taylor spent 18 years practicing Stevenson has served his com- Marion, City of Mullins, and the Congressional District on the In 1968, Stevenson was appointSCDOT Commission since March civil and criminal litigation with ed by the Marion County munity in various capacities Marion County Board of firms in the Midlands. In 1990, he Delegation to the Marion County including as a member of St. James Education. of 2007.

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