(Radio Iowa) – An Ohio-based company that makes plastic drainage pipe is closing its facility in Waterloo. Advanced Drainage Systems has notified the State of Iowa that 71 employees in Waterloo will be laid off on August 17th. Employees were told of the closure last week. The company’s pipes are used to drain fields, parking lots and freeways and to hold storm water and control erosion.

The Waterloo facility was one of three A-D-S plants recycling plastic. According to a publication called “Plastics News,” A-D-S is shifting recycling to a facility in southern Georgia.