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Prior to starting the company in Connecticut, DeFeo had worked in the agricultural industry in the Midwest, where he gained exposure to many different types of equipment and the harvesting process for many different commodities that were shipped in bulk. Once DeFeo moved back to Connecticut, he started working in the construction industry, which laid the foundation for what would become DeFeo Materials.

DeFeo Materials main focus is to produce and distribute decorative stone see DEFEO page 4

New England Patriots Near Goal Line in Completing Gillette Stadium Upgrades The National Football League’s New England Patriots have released new renderings of their $250 million stadium renovations and additions, scheduled to be completed in time for the team’s regular season opening in September.

Gillette Stadium was originally opened in Foxborough, Mass., in 2002, about 22 mi. southwest of Boston. The stadium cost $325 million when it was built, and it is the only NFL stadium that was fully-funded through private sources.

Since then, it has seen a series of renovations, with the most recent one focusing on an enormous screen, a new lighthouse (that oversees a parking lot rather than the ocean) and improved concourses. see PATRIOTS page 16

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The stadium’s renovations include a new, 22-story lighthouse with an observation deck giving fans a 360-degree view of the surrounding area that will operate year-round, not just on game day.

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Conn.’s DeFeo Materials Finds Transportation Solutions

At its various facilities, DeFeo has invested more than $200,000 in concrete block and asphalt to ensure that its rinsed stone stays clean.

DEFEO from page 1

products to wholesale landscape supply yards up and down the east coast — it supplies over 15 different products to approximately 200 different customers across the east coast.

“It’s common knowledge that the housing market has been very strong in the southeastern United States for a prolonged period of time,” said DeFeo. “Over the last decade, both builders and developers have become aware of the environmental benefits of using decorative stone in the landscape process versus other options such as mulches and pine straw. You are conserving water as well as not having to buy, reapply and pay to have the mulch or pine straw redone every year.

“And a big benefit is the stones keep their color yearround,” he added. “Once you put the stones down, they pay for themselves in two or three years and in the long term it is substantial savings, especially for commercial properties that spend a fortune on spreading mulch every year.”

This market opened up for DeFeo when a gravel pit in New Jersey fell behind on supplying product and could not supply a stone yard in western N.C. When DeFeo Materials delivered the product, they asked the customer “how much more of this would you like” and her answer was “Honey, you could never bring me enough.”

At that point, DeFeo knew it had tapped into a great market, and it has been exploding ever since. But to properly serve the market, some changes needed to be made in the mode of transportation.

“As we started to develop the market with more and more customers, we realized that this just wasn’t going to happen with truck delivery,” DeFeo said. “People don’t want to drive trucks over the road anymore, and there are not enough bulk commodity trailers. Frameless dump trailers are how the majority of bulk commodities are transported. There are just not enough trucks available to move our type of material in the volume that we need transported, and still be able to do it economically.

“There are not enough loads of other bulk commodities heading north to bring back the trailers, so you have no backload, which skyrockets your transportation costs. The other issue, and it is a constant problem with hauling over the road, is battling the strict rules and regulations with DOT, equipment breakdowns and the general cost of trucks and trailers, which are increasing at an unbelievable rate.” see DEFEO page 8

DeFeo Materials’ EvoQuip Colt 600 screening plant has proven to be an absolute work horse.

DeFeo Materials owns rail cars with different configurations. This car features bottom unloading hoppers for quick unload at rail stations that can accommodate this method.

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DeFeo’s Stone Comes From Approximately Six Gravel Pits DEFEO from page 4

DeFeo was determined to find a way to work around this transportation challenge.

“I have always loved working with big equipment and have been fascinated with the idea of producing products in large volume.

I’m a numbers guy, so it was something that I could break the numbers down and analyze.

“The supply of natural minerals and stone in the northeast is abundant. As a teenager, I was in the landDeFeo Materials is well- scaping business and really known among landscape liked the way decorative supply houses up and stone looks when it is down the east coast for applied, particularly in comits river rock. mercial applications, around medians, apartment complexes and hotels. I think it’s a great touch to the property and doesn’t look old after only a couple months like mulch.”

“We were told by our customers that when other quarries run out of decorative stone, they throw up their hands and turn away customers rather than finding a solution to produce more product. I realized that if we could use technology, it would help improve efficiency and we could tap into a market with huge potential. But we first had to figure out the issue of transporting our product 800-plus miles.”

DeFeo then started hiring out trucks and building a network of trusted subcontractors, like Taylor Trucking, RLO Trucking and many more to be able to grow the volume of stone, without spending more capital on additional company owned trucks.

“They typically will each take about two loads a week and that represents a good amount of tonnage for us, but it still was not enough to satisfy what I was trying to build. The game changer was in 2020 when we started shipping by rail.

We invested every last dollar, even sold a portion of the company to investors to build a loading area at our Utica, N.Y., rail yard. The first year we transported about 3,800 tons of our product by train and by the end of this year it will be around 75,000 tons.”

Once rail transportation and its benefits were implemented, it was a huge challenge, but a total game changer. DeFeo now has sites located with railway access along the east coast, where they stockpile product and use their fleet of equipment to load and unload their fleet of rail cars, where it is then shipped to various distribution yards and delivered in the southeast.

Even with the implementation of rail distribution, DeFeo still has challenges to overcome. Distribution from the rail depots to the end user and getting orders filled within its goal of a 10-day time limit is particularly challenging when you’re moving thousands of tons of stone thousands of miles. Quality control also is essential — the stones must be sorted correctly by size, and they must be clean.

DeFeo’s largest distribution point is in Utica, N.Y., from which it ships its most popular product, New England River Rock. It has other smaller loading facilities in New England from which it distributes some of its smaller volume prod-

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Utica has been an ideal location for DeFeo, even though the company is New England-based, as the northeast provides the ideal glacier created, multi-colored stones that its customers are looking for.

“The Mohawk and Northern Adirondack Railroad (the railroad in which DeFeo ships from) treat us very well. They appreciate our business and we have become one of their largest customers. Anything that we need they have been willing to work with us on.”

“In Utica, our current storage is about 12,000 tons. It could be more; but our production is limited by the weather. In this region you can only produce for about seven months out of the year, as the winters are harsh and the cold temperatures do not allow us to screen any product.”

A significant portion of its product is sent to DeFeo’s yards in North Carolina. DeFeo additionally works alongside Vulcan Materials, at their Mount Holly, SC rail yard, who handles the distribution of DeFeo’s product in the Charleston and Savannah regions. This allows customers in these areas to pick up their most popular product, New England River Rock.

When asked where their material comes from DeFeo said, “Our stone comes from about six different gravel pits that we work closely with. I like to describe these gravel pits as family-owned mom-and-pop type shops. They really are focused on just being able to get the sand out to sell to concrete plants.” see DEFEO page 12

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Terex ‘Rinse Plant’ Proves to Be Critical Purchase for DeFeo DEFEO from page 8

Another key feature to the plant is its triple deck screen.

“We are purchasing from them a byprod“That feature alone saves us 30 to 40 uct of sand production, any gravel that is hours a year because we do not continuously above half an inch. We can’t pull it all from have to change out our screen sizes. Because just one location because number one, the plant rinses while it screens, we are not there’s just not enough material, and number limited to screening under only dry conditwo, we blend the gravel from the different tions. Utica can be noted for its cloudy, drealocations, creating the multi- colored prodry days, which can limit your production ucts offered” opportunities. The Terex M 1700X elimiDeFeo takes all of its mixed stone ranging nates that concern. in sizes from half-inch up to 12 in. and piles “We are experiencing a significant spike it in one large stockpile where it is screened in demand and because of the Terex M and separated by size using an EvoQuip Colt 1700X we have been able to keep up with 600 screening plant.

DeFeo Materials’ Terex M 1700X purchased from Powerscreen New England has the orders.”

“The EvoQuip was our first screening met and exceeded all of its production expectations.

A big plus to the Terex M plant, and it has been an 1700X is it can be converted amazing machine. It’s a quickly and can be turned compact plant that's relativeinto a dry screening plant ly new to the market. We instead of a rinsing plant in work it very hard, and it has less than one day, DeFeo been extremely durable, givsaid. ing us little or no downtime.

“There is an additional We had considered buying a belt that goes on the bottom, simple box screen and I’m and we can use this at differglad we did not do that. The ent sites with different appliproductivity we get out of cations, where no water this machine far exceeds usage is permitted.” anything that would have The rinsing plant was a happened with a simple box critical purchase for DeFeo, screen plant.” which needs to ship clean “We purchased the As stones pass through screening decks, they are materials to its customers — machine from Powerscreen rinsed clean by high pressure water jets. the product does not sell well New England. As a dealerwhen it is dirty because cusship, they have been wonderful to work with, and their sales self-powered and self-contomers can’t see the color tained. That allows the water rep, Graham Wiley, has been invaluable as a resource.” and beauty of the rock.

“What really makes Graham and the entire Powerscreen to be directed back into our Without a wash plant, the team fantastic to work with is their willingness to come out settling tanks. best the company could do Another feature that was and work with you side by side in the field. They worked was run the stones through to DeFeo with us through the entire set-up process, showed us how to important the screener multiple times, keep our repairs and maintenance costs down, and how to Materials was the large feed but it was not an adequate keep our production levels up without losing quality. If we hopper, at 14-ft. in width.

The triple deck screen is the key element to meeting approach to cleaning the “[This is] a big plus to us high production levels. experience issues that they were not familiar with, they are material. DeFeo had made a immediately reaching out and working with Terex in Ireland when other machines’ hopsmall, self-made contraption pers are only 12 feet wide, to get answers.”

“We get an added bonus with our sales rep Graham and our loader bucket is all of 12 feet wide. If you’re operat- to wash the stones as they were being screened, but it just because he is a mechanical engineer, and he understands ing a loader of that size the extra two feet makes all the dif- wasn’t doing the trick.

“What you or I may consider a clean stone is a completely how the equipment actually works. We moved about 80,000 ference. It eliminates spillage and cleanup time.

“We measure our production from the onboard loader different standard to the homeowner and the landscaper. tons of product last year and our goal this year is 100,000 tons, so we are always expecting more from our equipment. scale, so if we can’t get the entire bucket of material into the They do not understand that it would be a simple process to What comes with that is expecting more from the vendors hopper, we can’t calculate our production. The hopper holds just hose off the product after it’s put in place. They want it 10 yards, which allows us to put an entire bucket load from to look perfect when it’s laid down. So, for our stone to be we work with.”

DeFeo separates the fines and oversized gravel with the our Cat 980 in one pass, which is very efficient for us. It’s an delivered very clean is critical. Even after washing, the stone EvoQuip, then they process the gravel further by their latest impressive machine, allowing us to run hundreds of tons of gets dirty again during transportation. That’s why we investaddition to DeFeo’s equipment fleet, a Terex M 1700X rinse material in an hour. Our total fuel consumption has dropped ed over $200,000 in the past year on asphalt and concrete to just over 10 gallons per hour to wash a hundred tons, floors where the stone is stockpiled. That way once we wash plant. it, the stone stays clean. A lot of companies would think “Terex refers to it as a wash plant, we call it a rinser, but improving our carbon footprint by almost 40 percent.”

“The portable aspect of the M1700X is a huge benefit, we’re crazy to do that, but we really care about the quality of by whatever name you want to call it we love it. It was the perfect option for us. We met with the owner, Seamus allowing us to transport the machine to other aggregate pro- the products that we sell to our customers. But just as imporSheelan of Powerscreen New England, and he and Graham ducers and make products at their sites. We need to know tant, one of the biggest keys to our success is our amazing employees that have worked as a team to help us grow.”

Wiley felt strongly that this was the right machine that we that we can produce anywhere at any time.”

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Work Progresses On New I-395 to Maine Route 9 Connector The Interstate 395 extension that spans from Maine Route 1A in Brewer to Rt. 9 in Eddington is starting to take shape, officials with the state’s Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) said recently.

At a cost of $106 million, the I-395/Rt. 9 connector project has been under construction since early 2022 after years of planning.

The prime contractor on the project is Sargent Corp. in Orono, Maine.

Since the beginning of the enterprise, Sargent and its subcontractors have been laying the groundwork for paving — expected to start this fall — and building five bridges for local traffic.

MaineDOT developed the roadway connector project to complete a “missing link” between I-395 and the state highway in north central Maine, just east of Bangor, with the goal of helping better connect communities and invigorate the local and state economies.

The agency noted on its website’s project page that the new 6-mi.-long road “will provide a regional solution to problems of transportation system connection, safety and mobility,” adding that the Bangor/Brewer area “is the economic and employment center” for that region of the state.

“Economically speaking, [companies] that do business in the greater Bangor region and serve markets east of here, all the way to, and including, Canada, will see the benefits of a more reliable, safer, [and] faster road,” Paul Merrill, director of communications for MaineDOT, told WFVX-TV in Bangor.

Construction Has Picked Up Since May Just before the official 2023 Maine construction season opened, Sargent closed a portion of Eastern Avenue in Brewer for the installation of one of the new bridges that are being built for the connector road. Traffic was detoured from the intersection of Lambert Road to the intersection of Clewleyville Road.

For those folks who have been using the detour redirecting Clewleyville Road traffic in Eddington, though, an end is now in sight.

Merrill said the road will reopen on Nov. 15, as will some other bridges involved in the project.

“This is one of five bridges involved in this project [and] the only one that has a road going under it,” he noted. “Right now, there’s a lot of bridge work, and earth work, going on along the 6-mile connector route.”

In its most recent update on the I-395/Rt. 9 connector project, looking at May and June, MaineDOT reported that excavation was removed from both Eastern Avenue and Clewleyville Road, and bridge abutment footers were started on both roadways.

By May, T Buck Construction Inc., located in Turner, Maine, was hard at work on the new Clewleyville Road Bridge to include placing concrete for both abutment footers, the abutment 1 breastwall and east wingwall section 2. The contractor also placed concrete for abutment 2 at the Eastern Avenue Bridge and started form work for abutment 1.

Additionally, Sargent began installing four box culverts between Levenseller Road and the Maine Rt. 9 end of the project, while Fremont, N.H.-based Heath Hathaway continued drilling and blasting in the project’s work zone.

In June, Sargent continued its box culvert backfilling at the site as well as prepping the area to install lightweight fill. The contractor also put in reinforced concrete pipes where needed and removed soil overburden on Ramp E and Ramp F to prepare for lightweight fill along a portion of the new connector road.

At the same time, T Buck’s crews have kept busy on the Clewleyville Road Bridge.

They first completed the task of placing forms and rebar for the Abutment 2 east wingwall and west wingwall section 1, before pouring concrete in both areas. At the Eastern Avenue Bridge site, T Buck has also finished placing the forms and rebar for the Abutment 1 breastwall and set concrete.

In addition, Deerfield, N.H.’s East Coast Signals installed the ITS conduit, with digging and backfilling assistance from Sargent, and H.B. Fleming, from South Portland, completed driving piles at Eaton Brook East before moving to Eaton Brook West.

Merrill acknowledged that many drivers navigating the detours around the I-395/Rt. 9 Connector work zone project see it as a hassle now but will enjoy its benefits once it opens in the summer of 2025.

“If you’re going from I-395 to Route 9, 6 miles down the road, there’s a lot of turns and different speed limits, [and you will encounter a lot of] local traffic,” he said in speaking with WFVX-TV. “This will make it a smooth shot, especially for commercial vehicles.” 

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The stadium also is the home field for Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution.

Work began in January 2022, led by Boston-based Suffolk Construction, and included the demolition of the stadium’s iconic lighthouse, built next to a bridge, a reference to the seacoast imagery of New England.

The stadium’s renovations include a new, 22-story lighthouse with an observation deck giving fans a 360-degree view of the surrounding area that will operate year-round, not just on game day.

The Architect’s Newspaper reported July 12 that Patriots officials said visitors will be able to view both the Boston and Providence, R.I., skylines from the maritime-inspired structure.

Additionally, a revamped Enel Plaza, the stadium’s main entrance on its north end, will include an expanded grand staircase adjacent to the lighthouse.

Inside the revamped Gillette Stadium, work is well under way on the largest outdoor stadium video board in the country,

according to the team. Measuring 370 ft. wide by 60 ft. high, the curved screen is more than five times as large as its predecessor.

Other improvements include the full connection of all concourse levels around the stadium — some levels previously only wrapped around part of the venue.

A new fan space covering a 2,000-sq.-ft. patio and 4,000-sq.-ft. interior space, the Bud Light Celebration Beer Hall, is designed to give fans a field-level view of players as they walk from a tunnel into the stadium.

Changes to the north end will mitigate some wind from entering the stadium, but without a roof, fans will be far from weatherproofed.

However, hearty Patriots’ fans have come to rely on frigid, wintry weather to give the team an advantage over most of its opponents from warmer climes.

All improvements to Gillette Stadium are on-track to open for the Patriots’ first game of the 2023 NFL season against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sept. 10. 

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New Manual Offers Guidance for Building Climate Resilient Roads Ninety percent of the bridges and culverts on the roads in Maine that cross salt marshes and tidal waterways are not equipped to handle the ebb and flow of the tides.

That means higher road maintenance costs along the state’s scenic coast, along with a shortened lifespan for culverts and bridges, unplanned road closures that can put public well-being and safety at risk, and harm to commercial fisheries and important habitat.

As a result, the Department of Marine Resources’ (DMR) Maine Coastal Program, along with 30 other organizations, has published a 100-page manual offering technical guidance on how to increase the safety of road crossings over Maine’s coastal wetlands and waterways.

“The CoastWise Approach: Achieving Ecological Resilience and Climate-Ready Road Crossings in Tidal Environments” is designed to be a resource for municipal and private engineers, public works directors, land developers, landscape architects and habitat restoration practitioners, said Maine Coastal Program Director Kathleen Leyden.

The publication also may be of use to general audiences and those working to build community awareness, including local elected officials, neighborhood associations, conservation commissions, land trusts and the public, she added.

The manual provides information about tidal wetlands and the factors that are changing them.

“Safe, dependable roads are crucial for supporting Maine’s economy, access to critical services, and a way of life valued by citizens and visitors alike,” Leyden said. “The severity of today’s tidal restrictions is likely to worsen as sea levels rise and the volume of water flows increases over the coming decades.”

Among the other entities that worked to develop “The CoastWise Approach,” a free publication, were the Maine Department of Transportation, Maine Audubon, the University of Maine, The Nature Conservancy, the Federal Highway Administration and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.

Additionally, several Maine towns contributed by participating in community surveys: Arrowsic, Blue Hill, Bremen, Cape Elizabeth, Damariscotta, Kennebunkport, Surry, Yarmouth and York.

Keeping Reliable Roads Across Wetlands Is Challenging Maintaining well-built roadways has become a challenge for most communities in the state, especially in coastal areas experiencing rapid change due to accelerated sea level rise, Maine DMR noted.

Where roads cross tidal wetlands at more than 800 locations in Maine, those challenges are magnified considerably, according to the new manual.

Tidal wetlands are essential to the state due to their ability to provide coastal storm and flood damage protection, pollutant filtration and breakdown, habitat for fish and wildlife, and opportunities for robust commercial harvesting and recreational activity for humans.

Maine DMR said that some wetlands, like salt marshes, also store atmospheric carbon that would otherwise contribute to sea level rise and other climate shifts.

To deliver those benefits, tidal wetlands must remain healthy and resilient to sea level rise. That requires unimpaired tidal flow.

But about 90 percent of Maine’s tidal road crossings are tidal restrictions. Such crossings put the state’s tidal wetlands at risk, but are also more apt to experience flooding, incur higher maintenance costs, and interrupt access to emergency services.

Tidal Complexities Abound Traditional practices for designing tidal road crossings do not adequately address the unique complexities, uncertainties, risks, or benefits associated with tidal environments, according to the state’s DMR. In response, the Maine Coastal Program and the CoastWise Steering Committee convened experts in the field and marshaled the input of more than two dozen organizations to develop the new CoastWise manual, which discusses tidal wetlands as dynamic systems influenced by a wide range of interacting social and environmental factors requiring a design approach that addresses complexity and risk, both now and in the future.

The free publication offers best practices to help road owners, municipal staff, engineers and others in helping to replace tidal road culverts and bridges with safe, climate-resilient crossings, Leyden said.

Partners involved in the project are currently developing training modules, which are anticipated to be unveiled in 2024. To view the manual, visit www.maine.gov/dmr/programs/maine-coastal-program/coastal-community-support/the-coastwise-approach. 

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