A few hundred small pieces of Geneva Steel history left Utah Valley on Friday, for a good cause.

Boy Scout Troop 1013 from Sandy arrived ready to work, hauling two truckloads of blast furnace brick from the site of the former Geneva Steel. Anderson Development, which purchased Geneva, is donating the brick. It will be used to build an outdoor patio and water feature for Valley Mental Health Center in Salt Lake City.

The project has personal meaning for Logan Krebs of Sandy, who will earn his Eagle award for the effort, and his father, Rick Krebs, who is also his Scoutmaster.

"Logan lost his mom to alcohol addiction just over a year ago," the elder Krebs said. "She died due to her illness. He is doing this project to help other people with addictions so they may not die like his mom did from her addiction."

The center now has a pile of dirt, which the Scouts will clear and level, making the area "kind of a thinking place" for relaxation, pondering, and even group therapy sessions, Logan said.

Rick Krebs said the patio will benefit patients at the center who have both mental illness and severe addictions.

When it comes to Eagle projects, Krebs says he has a philosophy about how those projects should be funded.

"I won't let the boys beg" for donations, Krebs said. "I want them to be workers."

Logan used $75 from his job as an elementary school janitor to purchase second-hand redwood patio furniture for the health center, and will refinish the furniture as part of his project.

But when it became clear that purchasing bricks for an 18-foot by 18-foot patio and water feature could cost more than $1,000, father and son turned to the Internet for help. That's when they found out about Anderson's stockpile of blast furnace brick, which they sell for $1 apiece to the public. When approached by the Krebs, Anderson Development immediately agreed to donate the brick.

"It was a good thing to do, to have these bricks to use some place instead of going to waste," said Gerald Anderson, a co-owner of the former Geneva property, who not only donated the brick but did much of the heavy lifting in helping the Scouts take the bricks to haul away. "The goal is to recycle it," he said of not only brick but lime, ash and iron at the site. "It's better for the economy; it's better for the environment."