ADA Ramps & Compliance in Edgerton, KS

An ADA ramp in Edgerton passes when the running slope holds at or under 1:12 max running slope, the cross slope stays under 1:48 max cross slope, the clear width runs 36 inches or wider, and a level landing sits at each end — the federal 2010 ADA Standards, checked on the finished pour, not the plan.

Edgerton is a small Johnson County town transformed by BNSF's Logistics Park Kansas City, one of the largest inland ports in North America. Around the intermodal terminal and the NorthPoint campuses, the person walking a lot is often a driver or a warehouse worker crossing ground built for 80,000-pound rigs, and the ramp there has to be built as deliberately as the truck pavement around it.

Edgerton sits on the south Johnson County limestone shelf — bedrock 3 to 8 feet down under a clay-loam mantle. That is the opposite of the river-bottom alluvium under much of the metro's other big industrial ground: per KDHE mapping the shelf is close enough to steady a ramp's base against deep settlement, while the clay-loam above it still heaves when it takes on water.

We compact and drain that mantle and carry the base toward the firmer shelf so a grade break holds flush under repeated heavy load — the ground behavior detailed in our Kansas City soil guide. It's the same care we bring to river-corridor ground in nearby De Soto, adjusted for the soil under each town. Every ramp closes with an as-built slope check recorded across the run and both landings.