Flagpole installation acrossUtah

Flagpoles in Utah

The Wasatch Front stacks campuses, city buildings and temple grounds against a mountain wall, and St. George in the far south is another climate altogether.

Wind here. Utah's mapped wind figure does not move. Eder's wind map puts Ogden, Salt Lake City, Provo, Park City and St. George in the far south-west all at 90 mph, the whole Salt Lake Valley floor with them. So the map is not what decides a Utah pole. The canyons are. Ogden, Weber, Provo, Parleys and Emigration all open onto the cities below them and send a downslope wind out of the east that no contour describes, which is why exposure is settled at the address rather than at the city limit. After that it is snow load off the state study, seismic detailing on the Wasatch fault, and in the south-west, heat and blowing sand.

• The Wasatch Front cities — Eder's 90 mph zone from Ogden through Salt Lake City to Provo, and the canyon mouths on the east side are not inside that figure. Heavy wall on anything standing above the last street, on a block sunk past a 30 inch frost line.
• The valley floor — The same 90 mph out west of the Jordan River. What changes across the valley floor is not the number but the ground: deep lake sediment instead of rock, so the block goes wider rather than the shaft thicker.
• The Wasatch Back and the high country — 90 mph at Park City, at close to 7,000 feet, with the ground snow load taken off the state study rather than a single number. Wind is the smaller half of it. Rope and cleat freeze solid up here, so stainless hardware and an internal halyard with a winch.
• The southern desert — The same 90 mph around St. George, on a 12 inch frost line instead of 30, so the hole is the shallowest in the state. Heat, sun and blowing sand set the specification instead, which means anodized rather than mill finish.

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