Crews pour first slab for Washington County Detention Center

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A work crew member makes final touches to a section of slab the Washington County Detention Center received Friday, August. 20.
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Posted: 08/20/2010

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. - The new Washington County Detention Center received its first section of slab early Friday morning.

Crews showed up at around 4 a.m. and under the light of generator powered lamps — and utilizing a concrete pumper truck equipped with a boom — began spreading truck load after truck load of concrete.

There were 40 truck loads in all, according to Dave Burlin, the project superintendent for Atlas General Contractors. All together, 356 cubic yards of concrete made up the 17,000 square feet of slab poured Friday morning.

Crews are already preparing for the next section of slab to be poured in three weeks. The slab poured Friday is only between a third and half of that called for by the building plans, said Burlin.

As for the new slab currently in place, Burlin said crews will begin cutting expansion joints in the slab Friday afternoon.

Next, masons will show up around the first of the month — around Sep. 6 — to begin laying block.

The new $7.825 million 40,000 square foot Washington County jail building will feature 220 beds jail and is scheduled for a May 1, 2012 completion.