Tri-State Construction

About Tri-State Construction

Dubuque sits close enough to the Illinois and Wisconsin lines that local shorthand for the whole area is simply 'tri-state,' and the bridges crossing the Mississippi here carry traffic between all three on any given morning, fog or not. Tri-State Construction works snow removal across that same reach — driveways and lots on the Iowa side plowed and de-iced on the same schedule as the crew's runs toward the river crossings, since a storm moving up the valley doesn't stop at a state line. Walkways get cleared down to bare pavement rather than left with a packed layer, since bridge-approach traffic and river fog together can turn a half-cleared sidewalk to ice fast. Residential streets across Dubuque get the same treatment, timed to whichever direction that morning's system is moving. It's regional snow removal for a river town that never really thought of itself as belonging to just one state.