Northwest Pipe Co. Expands Its Market in Trenchless
Real Steel If there’s one point to take away regarding the manufacturing and supply of…
Browsing: Water
Precarious Project Is No Problem
In September, the Tri County Water Authority of Independence, Mo., replaced an exposed transmission water…
The 2015 Pipe Selection Survey
In the nearly five years since Trenchless Technology last conducted its sewer pipe selection survey,…
Using CIPP for Water Mains
A Less Disruptive Approach As infrastructure ages, water utility owners are tasked with the replacement…
Pre-Chlorinated Pipe Bursting
Key to Arlington National Cemetery Water Main Replacement Program At the beginning of the Civil…
Force Mains Are a Growing Concern for Utilities, an Opportunity for Trenchless
For most of its history, the trenchless pipe relining and inspection market has centered on gravity sewer pipes. That seems quite natural, considering the fact that the cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) process — the forerunner of trenchless relining — was engineered specifically for gravity sewers.
Winning Big in Las Vegas with Acoustic Condition Assessment
The Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD) began providing water to the Las Vegas Valley in 1954. Over the years, the City’s water delivery system has grown to more than 4,500 miles of pipeline, 350,000 service connections and a reservoir system capable of storing more than 900 million gals of water.
New South Carolina Water Main Provides for Future Needs
Building now to plan for the needs of its population to 2030, York County, S.C., decided to install a new, large diameter, six-mile-long water main, part of which was run under the Catawba River. After a severe drought during summer 2007, a study found that the existing infrastructure within the York County Eastern Water System was inadequate to meet peak demands and would require more reliance on water supply from another utility.
Static Pipe Bursting in Minnesota
The success of a recent water main replacement in Moorhead, Minn., backed by positive readings from a digital pressure and pullback monitor, helped change some minds about restrained-joint PVC pipe’s resilience in static pipe bursting applications.
2012 Trenchless Technology Water Main Survey Results
There are more than 1 million miles of water mains in North America today, providing residential and commercial users with the water they need each day.