Tag Archive: August 2018 Print Issue

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Water Leak Targeting Using Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

A water loss control program helps to identify real or physical losses of water from the water system and apparent losse...

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Locating and Repairing Critical Leaks after Freezing Weather in Houston

Shortly after the freezing weather in Houston in early 2018, leaks were identified on 54-, 60-, and 66-in. steel transmi...

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Crossing Under the Rio Grande for the Impulsora Pipeline

In Webb County, Texas, near Laredo, a nine-member directional drilling crew with PUMPCO Inc. have successfully crossed u...

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Tech Forum: What’s Your Confined Space Rescue Plan?

Cleaning, repairing or inspecting critical equipment often requires workers to enter small spaces like tanks or pipes wh...

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Considerations When Working with Geopolymer Mortar

The first commercially available geopolymer mortar for sewer and storm water rehabilitation was introduced in 2011. Sinc...

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HDD Tooling Maintenance: Before, During & After

Before we can even discuss maintaining the tools for the job, it is important to ensure you are using the right tool in ...

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Last Word: Educating to Employ: Public Works Programs Help to...

The jobs report may show the unemployment rate at a rare low, but one industry has been struggling to hire for several y...

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Meeting Military Standards: Buried Bridge Rehabilitated with New Concrete Pipe,...

Fort Drum, in Jefferson County, New York, is home to the Army’s 10th Mountain Division and, with a population of n...

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One of a Kind: Ductile Iron Pipe Used in HDD...

The first horizontal directional drilling (HDD) installation of AMERICAN ductile iron pipe for a cable conduit was compl...

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Seeing the Light: SAERTEX multiCom Continues to Grow along with...

Cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) has dominated the trenchless pipe relining market for more than four decades, in particular s...

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City of North Olmsted, Ohio, Makes Maintaining the Manholes a...

One Northeast Ohio city is not taking the deterioration of its manholes lightly. The City of North Olmsted is doing ever...