Frase Construction Inc

About Frase Construction Inc

Ottumwa is not the flat Iowa of postcards — the streets climb and drop along bluffs above the Des Moines River, and a plow here has to fight gravity as much as snow. Frase Construction Inc works those grades on the north and south sides of the valley, where a driveway can sit at a steep enough pitch that ice turns it impassable long before the flat blocks downtown notice a problem. The bridges linking both halves of the city carry a steady low rumble of traffic even in a storm, and the neighborhoods above them look down on the river valley going white in stages, hilltop first, riverbank last. This crew treats every grade differently, laying down extra salt on the pitches that catch morning shade and freeze hardest. Watching headlights climb a hill that was solid ice an hour before is, for this crew, the whole point of getting up before the rest of the valley does.