From The Port To State-Of-The-Art Storage: A Lesson In Cold Storage
The project is a 306,000 SF new, state-of-the-art cold storage facility situated on 20 acres of a 182-acre site, right off Interstate 16 on Old River Road in Effingham County, seven miles from Interstate 95 and 15 miles from the Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal. The facility consists of 15 million cubic SF including 290,556 SF of refrigerated space, 15,810 SF of non-refrigerated space (offices, maintenance, etc.); 60,821 SF of truck dock space including 36 truck dock doors with 70-foot docks, trailer drop-lot for 87 additional trailers, 29 powered spots; 18 Freon packaged/ rooftop refrigeration units; 36,242 pallet positions racked with ability to increase to 42,290 pallet positions including 602 Blast Freezer pallet positions racked with ability to increase to 1,176 Blast Freezer pallet positions; and 207,751 SF of convertible freezer space including 14,288 SF of Blast Freezer space and 7,696 SF De-Slat room. In addition, included were Quick Freeze Blast, import/export USDA inspection, USDA office and inspection room included on dock, export documentation, stamping, labeling, drayage, container wash, container plugs, distribution support through consolidation programs, opportunities to support further processing, bagging and repack operations, temperature-controlled campus to support various facets of need, land to further develop temperature-controlled campus for future growth and market diversification
The site is served by water that comes from a municipally owned system on the north side of Interstate-16 with the extension of a 12” water main over 4,000 LF of watermain extension to serve the facility. Public sewer is not available at the site and therefore an on-site sewage management system was designed and constructed to serve the facility. Stormwater was designed to be controlled on-site as to not cause diminishing conditions downstream. Traffic and staging was mitigated by allowing for a widened entrance to provide for additional queuing positions.
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