Concrete WSF, Illig Dairy Farm

West Branch, Michigan | USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

Illig Dairy Farm needed to replace an undersized earthen manure pit with a new concrete waste storage facility. D&K advanced the design and engineering, prepared plans and specifications, and observed the construction of a structure with an access ramp and a manure transfer channel.

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Project Elements

• 184-ft-wide, 374-ft-long, 12-ft-deep concrete-lined structure
• Structural analysis using the finite element method for plate/shell configuration
• Subsurface exploration to characterize conditions at the proposed location, observe geotechnical properties of the materials, and delineate unsuitable materials