Flagpole installation inRoswell, NM

Flagpoles in Roswell

The market town for southeastern New Mexico: dairies and alfalfa in every direction, oilfield service work out of the east, a state military school in the middle of town and a former air force base turned industrial airfield on the south side. We cover Roswell and the Chaves County area, including Main Street and the downtown blocks, the New Mexico Military Institute campus, the Roswell Air Center on the old Walker Air Force Base land, Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell, the Spring River corridor and the dairy country out toward Dexter and Hagerman.

Wind here. Roswell sits in a low, flat and wide open area, which works out to roughly 105 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. The wind figure here is ordinary. The ground is not. Roswell sits in the Pecos valley, where artesian water rising through the rock dissolves the gypsum underneath and leaves sinkholes behind, which is what the bottomless lakes east of town are. A hole that suddenly goes soft is a reason to stop and find out why rather than pour, and on a parcel near the escarpment we want a look before the concrete is on order. The second thing is the air centre, where the old Walker runways and aprons run flat to the fence with no shelter in any direction, so frontage out there is treated as open exposure. The rest is sun and distance: a flag on a dairy is read from half a mile away and lives a hard life doing it.

Most of the people who call us from Roswell are school and college campuses, dairies and farms, aircraft and industrial tenants at the air centre, hospitals and clinics, veterans posts, churches and city and county buildings.