A Woodland company has created a 34ft tall, 11ft wide valve that weighs 52,000lbs. The valve fits a 96in diameter pipe for a Chicago storm and wastewater treatment plant. The humongous pipe-stopper, made of carbon and stainless steel, is the third of its kind trucked this year from the Woodland company to Chicago. Lined Valve received about USD 1.5 million for the valves, which are part of a project Chicago is paying for with municipal funds. All three valves were designed, engineered and built in Bowman’s 25,000sq/ft shop, located behind Woodland’s Coca-Cola distributing center. To create the valves, called a “knife gate” valve because the gate drops straight down to stop water, each unit was divided into three parts for fabrication: the body (which connects around a sewer pipe), gate (which stops the water) and a bonnet (which holds the raised gate and surrounds the gate to keep water contained in the system).