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Patriot Building Company, Inc.
400 Millstone Drive,
Suite 100
P.O. Box 1419
Hillsborough, NC 27278

Phone: (919) 732-8200
Fax: (919) 732-1517

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State Employees Credit Union - Raleigh, NC
Chapel Hill, NC
State Employee Credit Union - Raleigh, NC Patriot Building Company has enjoyed a successful relationship with the State Employees Credit Union by building two new facilities in Durham and Raleigh and renovating the Smithfield branch.

When the Raleigh branch called about a deteriorating drive up canopy and inadequate rain drainage, Patriot was quick to assist.

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State Employee Credit Union - Raleigh, NC Attention was first directed to the canopy. In order to perform repairs with as little interference as possible to the customers, only one lane was blocked at a time. Repairs here consisted of the removal of the lower canopy band vinyl stop bead and replacement of the same with additional stucco added to the band to make it all appear natural.
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State Employee Credit Union - Raleigh, NC After the band was repaired, we moved on to the retention pond and inadequate wier drainage.

The pond area itself was performing adequately but the water within the pond area was moving too rapidly from the wier in this pond, to the wier in the next level down causing over flooding in that pond area.
In addition, attention to the clogging of the wier opening itself was placed before us as a consideration for repair.
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State Employee Credit Union - Raleigh, NC
By creating a 16" square plate of steel, adding an 8" diameter hole in the middle of it, painting it to prevent rusting and securing it to the wier, over the existing roughly punched access hole, a measured amount of volume passing through it was achieved, thereby eliminating the over flooding of the 2nd level wier and retention pond.
Adding a sloped metal grate over the opening itself, reduced the debris blockage issue to acceptable levels and solved the immediate problems.
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fieldhockey.jpg - 19818 Bytes The next issue came up when it was determined that the pond really needed to have an additional water inlet in the event of flooding so severe as to over whelm the 8" main inlet hole.

To accomplish this, it was determined that a variable plug valve would be mounted to the side of the wier and work began opening another 10" diameter hole in the wier, elevated slightly higher than the first hole.
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State Employee Credit Union - Raleigh, NC Once the hole was completed and supporting bolting holes also in place, the plug valve was attached to the wier and checked for proper operation.
After attaching the valve, we discovered that the arm used to operate the valve closure, would require some additional type of bracing up its length to maintain its straight up attitude.
A new brace mount was quickly penciled out,whisked off to the fabrication plant and returned, painted and mounted in place.
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State Employee Credit Union - Raleigh, NC The end result, was a fully operational, wier with two inlets, control over one and properly flowing discharge amounts.
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