Double Vault Restroom for River Bend Recreation Area – Findlay, OH
Findlay, Ohio is a city in the northwest part of the state about 40 miles south of Toledo. It is the county seat of Hancock County, with a population of 40,313.
Columbus, the state capital of Ohio, is 96 miles southeast. The city is about 70 miles east of the Indiana and Ohio border. Interstate 75, U.S. Route 224, Route 12, Route 37 and 15 all traverse through here.
Some of the many attractions include the Hancock Historical Museum, Findlay Village Mall, Oakwood’s Nature Preserve, Riverside Park Pool, Emory Adams Park, JC Donnell Memorial Stadium, Rawson Park, and Swale Park which is on the edge of the Blanchard River that runs through town.
Marathon Petroleum has its headquarters in Findlay. A Whirlpool manufacturing plant and Cooper Tire & Rubber Company also make their home there.
The Findlay Reservoir No. 2 has a capacity of about 5 billion gallons, making it the largest above ground reservoir in Ohio.
Near the reservoir is the Riverbend Recreation Area which is a 129-acre park with trails, wildlife, sports facilities, a playground, and disc golf.
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Giertz Lake is within the Riverbend Recreation Area which has two fishing piers, three playgrounds, picnic sites, sand volleyball, horseshoe pit, Raccoon Run Winter Sports Center, Riverbend Disc Golf Trail, K-9 Field of Dreams Dog Park, and camping. Part of the Heritage Trail is located through this park, along with access to the Blanchard River Water Trail.
The Brugeman Lodge has a capacity for 240 people which is an event space at the park along with various Riverbend shelters. Hancock Park District, which owns and operates Riverbend Recreation Area, contacted Romtec directly during the preliminary planning and budget phase of the project. Later they purchased the buildings directly from Romtec through Sourcewell after the funding was approved.
The project scope includes three new double vault restrooms with stone siding, with one of the buildings located within the flood plain and includes a water-tight flood proof design with flood barriers.
These will all be installed within the Riverbend Recreation Area at the following locations: Big Oaks Activity Area the closest to the Blanchard River, and is within the river’s floodway, Brugeman Lodge Area, and Oxbow Bend Recreation Area.
The general contractor who installed the buildings was ACI Construction Company on behalf of the Hancock Park District. The engineer was Van Horn, Hoover & Associates, Inc., and the Landscape Architect was RCM Architects.
The facility features two single-user unisex and ADA approved restrooms, poly pipe vent, metal roof, “brown county rubble” stone siding over 8″ x 16″ CMU concrete block wall, and polycarbonate gable windows that all create an appealing restroom building that services Riverbend Recreation Area.
Romtec was proud to design and supply these double vault restrooms for the Hancock Park District in Findlay, Ohio. The Riverbend Recreation Area which is a gem of a park for this community.
Romtec designs buildings to fit the needs of each park or project, which in this case was double vault restrooms in a flood plain area that required a water-tight flood proof design with flood barriers. Romtec worked to create a solution while creating beautiful buildings that fit in with the surrounding park.
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