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American Highway Products’ manhole risers help
surging St. Louis County keep pace
by Angus W. Stocking
hile building a better mousetrap might be the eu-
phemistic gold standard for product innovation,
Ohio-based American Highway Products has prov-
en that developing a better manhole riser can be
even more impactful. After all, a mousetrap can’t save time and
labor by eliminating the need for excavating, brick laying and
new cement.
That would be quite a mouse.
For one burgeoning county in the middle of the country,
AHP’s risers have made keeping up with the increasing de-
mands on its infrastructure amid a decades-long population
boom not just manageable, but downright easier than other
methods. Even other risers.
That’s an impact everyone can feel.
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Bringing St. Louis County Up to Grade For roughly the first
150 years after its founding in 1812, St. Louis County was the
sleepy neighbor to the city of St. Louis, relatively underpopulat-
ed and rural compared to the big city adjacent to it. That began
to change in the 1960s when the county’s population first ex-
ceeded that of the city of St. Louis. Now, sixty years later, nearly
a million people call St. Louis County home, while the greater
St. Louis metro area overall makes up over 2.8 million people
throughout a two-state area. That means well over a million
people use the roadways in St. Louis county regularly.
It’s a tremendous amount of growth many other munici-
palities can relate to. The task of maintaining the older roads
and keeping up with growth– all while remaining efficient and
cost-effective -- can create a high-pressure work environment,
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