OUTSTANDING  CONCRETE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Presented  to
The Columbus City County Jail
Columbus, Indiana

The  Indiana Ready Mixed Concrete Association (IRMCA) presented the 2009 Outstanding  Concrete Achievement Awards for projects in the State of Indiana on January 19,  2010 at the Indianapolis Marriott North at Keystone at the Crossing in Indianapolis,  Indiana.

In  the category of Concrete Infrastructure Projects - Pervious, the winner is the  Columbus City County Jail in Columbus, Indiana.

The  project team is Bartholomew County, CBE, Charlie Bud, Best Excavating, C2  Construction and the ready mix producer, Shelby Materials.

This  project was on a site that made compliance with storm water regulations very  difficult. The city needed a one acre parking lot but the site sloped away from  the city storm sewer system. To satisfy the storm water regulations catch  basins and tiles would have gone to the far corner of the lot. The water would  then be captured in a vessel and then be pumped up to a storm sewer. All of the  phase 2 requirements were in effect so a separator would be required. By  converting some of the area of the parking lot to pervious, all of the storm  water requirements were met. The area under the parked cars is pervious - there  are deep French drains under the pervious to take the water away. The drive  lanes sheet water to the pervious areas, then the water is filtered and  returned to the environment.  There were  200 cubic yards of concrete used in this project.