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Rutherford County, North Carolina<\/strong><\/p>\n Horsehead Corporation’s (now American Zinc Recycling) selection of a greenfield site in rural Rutherford County, North Carolina was driven in part by the fact that the site had very good access to CSX’s mainline corridor.\u00a0 The site did present its challenges as the topography of the site as well as the proximity of a long mainline curve along the site required some creative solutions to providing access to this heavy manufacturing facility that would produce 150,000 tons of zinc per year.\u00a0 CivilSmith, LLC teamed up with Creative Rail Solutions, LLC to provide a wide range of services to include preliminary design, the Preliminary Engineering Report for grant funding, detailed rail design, rough track roadbed grading design, track construction specifications, bidding and contract documents, and construction observation services.<\/p>\n CivilSmith and Creative Rail Solutions coordinated with numerous other design team members, Horsehead Corporation,\u00a0NCDOT, and CSX throughout the entire duration of the project to develop rail designs that met the rail capacity needs of this heavy industrial process while meeting the strict design requirements of CSX.\u00a0 This project was partially grant-funded and as such required meticulous development of bidding and contract documents that met the requirements of both Rutherford County and NCDOT.<\/span><\/p>\n Project Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Civil\/Site Design:\u00a0 Odom Engineering<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Track Construction:\u00a0 STX Corporation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” 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