Strata Corporation

About Strata Corporation

The bluffs around New Town show their age in visible layers, bands of rock and clay stacked up above Lake Sakakawea like a record of every season that shaped them, and Strata Corporation works the driveways below those same bluffs with a similarly methodical, layer-by-layer approach. A storm here often comes off the lake with its own added moisture, heavier and slower to clear than a dry prairie snow, so the crew plans for a second pass rather than assuming one blade run will finish the job. Driveways along the roads that climb toward the overlooks get cleared in careful sections, since the grade there holds ice longer after each pass. Streets down in the older part of town get worked next, sidewalks shoveled clear where families walk to the school and the tribal offices nearby. Ice at any low spot near the lake road gets salted heavy, since that ground rarely gets full sun even on a clear day. The whole approach mirrors the land itself, one layer of work at a time.