Fred Creek
In 2007, Oral Roberts University and the City of Tulsa , Oklahoma faced a dilemma with the widening of Fred Creek, which flows through the O.R.U. campus. Fred Creek had continued to widen year after year until a point when the City of Tulsa realized that buildings on the campus were in jeopardy of being undermined.
A design was conceived and produced by Tetra Tech of Tulsa to build retaining walls on either side of the creek to stop the erosion. Using approximately 27,000 Redi Rock retaining wall blocks, the walls were started by Crossland Heavy. The retaining walls had several unique features. First, approximately 20% of the wall was comprised of 1/2 block, which broke up the standard half bond. Also, by burying up to 5 foot of the wall below creek-grade, the walls did not require pouring concrete on the creek floor , which was one of the major requirements of the Corps of Engineers.
Construction of this retaining wall system took the better part of two years and became one of the largest Redi-Rock retaining wall projects.
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For more information about this project, contact Steve Browne.
