CHANGES PAST WEEKS @ NEW HEADQUARTERS

Here’s a picture story of the changes the past few weeks for the new
H.Q. complex in St. Johns.

A couple remote operated tower cameras have been put in place to help capture the development of the project.





LATEST FROM WILLIAMS

FOR THE PAST WEEK THE EXCAVATORS HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW THE SAYING DIG A HOLE THEN FILL IT BACK IN. WELL THAT IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING BUT THIS TIME IT IS IN A PRODUCTIVE MANNER.

FROM THE RESULT OF THE GEO-TECH BORING THE SOILS FOR EACH HALF MILLON GALLON TANK WAS REQUIRED TO BE REMOVED 12 FEET IN DEPTH THEN REBUILT BACK UP WITH THE CORRECT LAYERS OF SOILS, STONE AND COMPACTION.

THIS SERIES OF PICTURES SHOW THAT PROCESS IN STAGES. 

THE NEXT STEP TO BE TAKEN IS A STEEL RING FILLED WITH STONE PLACED ATOP OF THESE LAYERS THAT WILL ACT AS THE TANKS BASE FOUNDATION.

MANY HELPING HANDS LAST WEEK TO GOODLAND

This past week at the Goodland site there were many hands doing many things. Credit goes out to all those who played a role in accomplishing all the work. From the Goodland site was Robert , Danny, Blake, Tim and Lance. Traveling out from Michigan to lend a hand was Ron Andrews, Randy Harris, Shaun Schneider and myself.  
The week was spent placing in new pumps and replacing others, reconfiguring manifolds, tank dedications, adding piping and fittings and plumbing routing. Not to mention the tedious task of cleaning a half dozen tanks for product reassignment (did I mention it was 100 degrees also).

 This shows loading system with a 4” Endress Hauser meter and 6” Thompsons filter



This plumbing design has the GPM to allow us the ability to load from one tank the same product simultaneously to truck and rail going through two separate meter and filter systems   

Here is also the use of a 2” Endress Hauser meter being used for product injections 

 



This view entails a pump that supplies Micro 500 to the rail along with supplying other high nutrient products to the manifold in the background that feeds the metering system to the outdoor truck loading bay.  





View from atop of a railcar overseeing the installed piping transferring product accomplishing numerous scenarios- unloading or loading rail, sparging of 500,000 gallons tanks, loading trucks and transferring and receiving products to all adjacent containments.    

ANOTHER EXPANSION IS UNDERWAY

Last Friday Agro Culture Liquid Fertilizers began another site expansion, this one is taking place at the Williams, IA facility.

The first order of task is to cut back soils and create a base for two 500,000 ga tanks. To create that secure base excavating will remove soil depths of 10-12 feet, then build and compact it back up



Here excavators are removing top soil the width and length for the footprint of the 2) 500,000 gallon tanks along with a containment large enough to hold 53) 30,000 ga  tanks.

Once expansion is complete additions will include the 2) 500,000 gallons tanks, a 80’x100’ Load-Out building , 2 additional rail spurs, truck scales and relocating the containment  for the 53) 30,000 gallons tanks from the south side of the site to the north side.   

So for those who keep track Agro Culture Liquid Fertilizers current expansion project list includes Goodland, KS./ Stockton, CA./ Williams, IA./ new Global Headquarters in St. Johns, MI remarkably all these are active projects going on simultaneously.