Flagpole installation inGrand Forks, ND

Flagpoles in Grand Forks

A university and air base city on the Red River, rebuilt behind a permanent levee line after 1997 and now a centre for unmanned aircraft work. We cover Grand Forks and the Grand Forks County area, including the University of North Dakota campus and its aerospace school, downtown and Town Square, DeMers Avenue, the Greenway along the Red River, the Alerus Center, the 32nd Avenue South retail corridor, Columbia Road, and Grand Forks Air Force Base with the Grand Sky park on it.

Wind here. Grand Forks sits in a flat, low-lying and flood-managed area, which works out to roughly 110 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Water is the first question in Grand Forks. The levee and floodwall system finished in 2007 runs straight through the city, and the houses nearest the river came out to make the Greenway, so a good deal of the open ground someone would want a pole on is either flood works or the easement around them. A footing does not go into either without the permission of the body that maintains the system, and that gets settled before anything is ordered. The soil is the same Lake Agassiz clay as Fargo, soft and slow to drain, so the footing goes wider than the same pole would want on sand. The base sixteen miles west and the Grand Sky park on it bring paperwork with them rather than engineering: domestic-content documentation goes in with the submittals, and we assemble it alongside the quote.

Most of the people who call us from Grand Forks are university and school buildings, hospital and clinic campuses, defence and unmanned-aircraft contractors, city and county facilities, retail frontage, churches and veterans posts.