Maurer-Stutz is pleased to continue our sponsorship of the annual Engineering Day at the Peoria Riverfront Museum.  This will be a FREE DAY at the Riverfront Museum generously sponsored by local engineering groups.  Please come join us on Sunday, February 21, from 12p-5p.

Hear about James Eads and the Historic Eads Bridge, a combined road and railway bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, connecting St. Louis and East St. Louis, Illinois. Eads, a self-taught engineer, completed the bridge in 1874. The Eads Bridge was the longest arch bridge in the world, and its ribbed steel arch spans were considered daring, as was the use of steel as a primary structural material: it was the first such use of true steel in a major bridge project. David Lobbig, Curator of Environmental Life at the Missouri History Museum, will tell us about the bridge and its self-made builder, James Eads.

The need for sewers in 19th-century Baltimore was abundantly clear to those who endured the “2,000-horse-power smell” of the city's harbor. There, streams of human waste, trash, and industrial runoff converged and stewed under the summer sun, breeding deadly typhoid fever. City code required indoor toilets, but it was up to individual property owners to build cesspools, cisterns, or gutters. These emptied into an unfortunate stream called the Jones Falls; its polluted course ran from the wealthier to the poorer areas of town and finally into the harbor. An 1890 news story claimed that harbor steamboat passengers “were known actually to faint from the effects of the vile smell.” Baltimore was one of the last major American cities to build a public sewer system. 

The Dean Family recently hosted an Open House for their new dry pack monoslope cow barn and new deep-pit gable cattle finishing barn. 

Maurer-Stutz helped with the design and permitting of this project.

Congratulations and we wish you continued success with your endeavors.