Written from Slater's published photos. Owner, scope and outcome await confirmation from Slater.
The challenge
A Coachella Valley flood control district needed an energy dissipator to slow and control stormwater coming off the foothills. The site was a remote, rocky alluvial slope with no room for concrete trucks at the structure, and the design called for tall walls, a heavily reinforced sloped face and a deck high above the ground.
Our approach
Slater built the formwork on site from timber and plywood, with walers, tie rods, diagonal pipe braces and a scaffold stair for access. Crews tied a dense reinforcing mat on the sloped face and worked from a telehandler platform where the walls climbed out of reach. On pour days a truck-mounted placing boom carried concrete from the access road up and over the structure to the crew on the deck.
The outcome
A tall, heavily reinforced structure placed in a location most concrete subs would have walked away from, formed and poured by Slater’s own crews. Hard-to-reach structural concrete is the work we have been known for across Southern California for 45 years.
