Summary
The white silo looms high over the trees between Victory Boulevard in Chesapeake and the Elizabeth River's Southern Branch. But its 157-foot height isn't the most remarkable thing.
The dome was erected in just five hours.See the full content of this document
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Storage Dome Rose Quickly Other Notables
The silo will be used by Enviva LP, a maker of wood pellets used for fuel, to store up to 3 million tons of the pellets for export.
The polyvinyl chloride - PVC - shell was trucked from Idaho to Hampton Roads and rolled out at the site once used by a cement company. Then, a giant blower inflated the dome in the same way that a hair dryer can inflate a plastic mattress, said Lane Roberts, a sales manager from Dome Technology, the Idaho-based company that made the silo.Over the past week, Enviva workers have been sprayin...See the full content of this document
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