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Fastracs, Inc.
PO Box 56 12 Camp Lane
Red Hook, NY 12571
Phone: (845) 758-3171 Fax: (845) 758-2052 www.fastracsinc.com
Above: Soil wall construction to reduce footprint of fill embankment along a driveway Below: Oil and stone treatment
Above: Rock excavation to provide a level bench for a pool and allow for tree planting Below: Blending contours around the house
Above: Recontouring around sites Below: Developing a house site
Above: Tree transplants at a new house site Left: Tandem pushing for efficient house pad leveling
Below: Selective cutting and thinning
Above: A D8 ripper preparing a foundation in rock (left) An excavator with ripper tooth for rock removal on a site with limited access (right)
Above: Backfilling a foundation built on grade with an elevated courtyard area
Above: A backfilled foundation at a site benched into a side hill (left); A retaining wall in a fill section, with a structural pad for stability (right) Below: Removing an old foundation and trenching for new footings and foundation under a barn
Top Row: Primary electric trench snaking through the woods to reduce a sight ‘tunnel’ (left) Trenching to interconnect geothermal wells (right)
Second Row: Electrical conduits and sleeves Above: Multiple 1000 gallon propane tanks ready to be manifolded
Left: 6” PVC sleeve for HVAC lines to chillers Right: Pump chamber for septic effluent with force main trench in rock
Above and Below: An existing pond was drained and overexcavated, then graded with structural fill for construction of a pool
Above: A 6” pipe was run from the pool to a wet hydrant in lieu of the previous pond to maintain fire insurance rates for the Owner Below: A pool being hammered completely into rock on a bench cut into a side hill Bottom Row: Clean up grading around an estate pool
Above: A temporary sediment trap at a residential site Below: A temporary sediment pond with outlet
Below: A permanent stormwater pond designed to infiltrate runoff from normal storms, with a reinforced spillway to discharge higher intensity storms
Above and Below: An artificial wetland built for a pilot program to monitor water quality Best Management Practices (BMP’s)
Below: The pilot program site on a farm in Patterson, NY
Above: A drop spillway to separate upper and lower ponds Below: Excavation and base preparation for an synthetic pond liner
Above: HDPE liner installed and partially filled, with the outlet pipe still visible (left) The associated outlet control structure (right) Below: Partially filled pond with edges seeded and mulched. The Hudson River is in the background.
Above: Views of completed ponds and the dam core wall at a horse farm in Poughquag Below: A concrete and stone spillway structure
Above: Field stone armoring used to defined a shoreline Below: A cast-in-place concrete control structure
Above and Below: Installation of an aluminum arch to create an ‘Earthen Bridge’ at a stream crossing on a private driveway
Above: A stream crossing for a private hunting trail Below: Installation of a concrete box culvert for a new subdivision
Above and Below: A stream crossing for a private road serving multiple homes
Above: New post-tensioned concrete box girder bridge over the Batavia Kill in Maplecrest, NY
Top Row: Installing rock structures on the Batavia Kill just above Peck Road (left); The same location after the storm event of June 28, 2006 (right) Above: Various shots of rock structures and materials
Left and Right: Views of the Batavia Kill on a portion of
the Maier Farm Project
Above: Rock structures along the Broadstreet Hollow project Below: Sheet piling armorment to protect a nearby home where insufficient space
was available for rock structures (left) A small rock vane along the Stony Clove Creek in Lanesville
Above and Below: A portion of the Fishkill Creek in the Town of Beekman eroded its bank and short circuited through a man-made lake. The
project involved closing the gap in the stream bank and reinforcing the backfill, as well as recovering enough gravel deposits from the lake to reclaim the eroded area.
Above and Below: Live plantings along reconstructed streams
Right: Installing gravel pack wells to relieve artesian pressure under the stream bed on the Broadstreet Hollow project
Clockwise from Above Left: Rough grading near the piano jumps; view looking up the piano jumps; view looking along the upper
piano step; tree well in the lower plateau; side look at piano jump, first ride on the completed
fields; view from top of piano jump across lower plateau to multi-purpose bank; hedge
jump.
Above: Grading for a new outdoor dressage ring Below: Spreading Permaflex footing in an indoor arena
Above: All-weather track, football, discus and baseball field – Trinity-Pawling School, Pawling, NY Below: Placing the track base and asphalt
Above: Placing sod at the track prior to the application of the all-weather surface
Above: Grading at the new football field
Above and Below: Construction of the baseball infield
Top Left: Town Park, Greenport, NY – a completely new site including baseball and little
league fields, soccer field, basketball court, playground, roadway, water and sewer mains
and an enclosed pavilion structure Above and Left: Rough grading for the
Greenport Park Below: A new little league field in Salt Point
From upper Left: D8 pushloading a scraper, topsoil screening operation, tandem dozer push for soil stockpiling, D8 pushloading a scraper, twin-engine scraper pushloading a single engine scraper, boulder removal in a cut area, multiple dozer push for increased efficiency, twin-engine scraper pushloading
Above: Ripping shale to increase line of sight (left) Drilling blast holes for a drainage system (right)
Below: Drilling, blasting and crushing rock from a house excavation to generate usable material for the remainder of the site
Below: A rapid sequence of shots from a blast
Above: An excavator mounted ripper tooth for rock removal
Below: Using a hydraulic hammer for rock removal
Above: Blasting operations within a town road for sewer installation
Below: Using a hydraulic hammer for trench rock removal
Above: Left – 10” submersible pump for stream bypass Right – Earthen cofferdam with diesel pump Below from Left: Inflated water structure used as cofferdam, lined channel discharge from pumped bypass, 10” submersible for excavation
dewatering, discharge hoses to a sediment trap
Above and Below: 30” HDPE pipe fused for use as a passive stream bypass
Above and Below: Cofferdam installation upstream and downstream of bridge work, with 2-30” culverts as passive bypass. Submersible pumps
are used to remove leakage and groundwater
Left: A sediment trap installed at the discharge of a 2” line
Above: Slope stabilization for turf establishment Below: Substation expansion into side hill
Above: Cleanup grading for a substation expansion Below: Parking equipment on a portion of new runway expansion at the Old Rhinebeck
Aerodrome (left) Staging drainage materials for the new football and baseball fields at Trinity-Pawling School (right)
Top row: Installing a 6” HDPE gas main along an existing ROW. Above and Right (l to r): Fusing 4” HDPE gas main ahead of the installation, Horizontal Directional Drilling equipment set up adjacent to a site drainage swale, connecting to a string of pipe installed under a roadway by directional boring, a string of
pipeline ready for lowering into the trench Below: Lawn restorations after installation of a 2” HDPE gas line in a residential area
Above: Replacing a damaged steel casing with a 16” PVC split casing on a transmission main Left: Trenching within a town road for gas main installation Right: The welding carriage
removed from the cart for maneuverability in the trench
Above and Below: A retrofit installation of 3” conduits from existing cable trenches through a fire wall
Above: Fusing HDPE pipe for an irrigation system at an athletic field complex
Above: Retrofit installation of 5” and 6” conduit in an existing substation Below: New installations of cable trenches and conduit duct bank
Below: Installing a section of a precast electrical manhole (left) Rock drilling for installation of 12’ ground rods (right)
Below: An unexpected site visitor
Top Row and Left: Foundations for electrical equipment and towers at various substations
Above: Installing a clean envelope of drainage stone along the foundation of a private art gallery
Below: An emergency replacement of a breaker foundation at a generating plant required a hydronic heater to maintain curing in
single digit temperatures
Above and Below: Installation of two leaching fields for a 75 bed residential treatment facility
Below: A commercial duplex pump installation
Top Row and Above: Installing two 10,000 gallon fiberglass tanks at a private residence – one each for site irrigation and fire
protection Left: A single 10,000 gallon tank installation for an irrigation
system
Construction of a bicycle path along the Hudson River from the Beacon Train Station south to Denning’s Point: Top Left: The north field pre-construction Top Right: Rough grading at the south end
Above: Subbase course ready for NaturalPAVE Below: The completed trail looking across the north field
Above: Applying the seal coat for the NaturalPAVE surface on the Beacon trail
Left and Below: Creating an ADA compliant ramp to access the Wilderstein Mansion
Bottom Row: A stone dust walking path installed along the perimeter of the Stanford Town Park