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Your Views: Pipe material is only 1 factor in culvert washouts
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The National and Southeastern Corrugated Steel Pipe Associations are responding to the Oct. 12 Times article explaining code changes in Hall County for culverts and stormwater pipes that excludes all types of metal pipe from “live streams” (perennial) and “under county roads.” This change ignores sound product research, design and pipeline-installation practices and would do nothing to curtail future washouts such as those that occurred this year, which involved both reinforced concrete pipe and galvanized corrugated steel pipe. The article states the Board of Commissioners set new standards for culverts and stormwater pipes, requiring new underground structures to be made of “more durable materials with higher life expectancy, so as to protect the financial resources and other interests of Hall County.”
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Opinion: Men accused in Arbery case should never have guns again
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This combo of booking photos provided by the Glynn County, Ga., Detention Center, shows from left, Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. (Associated Press)
Upcoming sensational trial. Black jogger (Ahmaud Arbery) dies violently at the hands of White zealots. Biased jurors.
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