Sustainability, cost-effectiveness and public disruption are all major concerns when a municipality attacks a community-wide problem, especially when that problem concerns water and sewer pipelines.
David Magill and Richard Berry
Paper Presented at Geo-Denver 2007
2006
This paper is about the current uses of chemical grouts, the economics of product use, and a discussion of where specific products within a category can be used.
A general contractor recently installed a buried precast concrete storm sewer line as part of a larger project involving the rerouting of two city blocks in Denver, Colorado.
C. Vipulanandan, PhD, PE and H. Gurkan Ozgurel
CIGMAT
2004
In recent years, federal and state regulations and mandates to reduce sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) have resulted in requiring better maintenance and operating practices for wastewater utilities.
Picture this: You’re standing in a brick manhole that is 50 years old and leaking extensively all around you. You’ve already been working for over an hour and for every leak you stop, several new leaks pop up. Now what?
Since its development in the early 1950s, chemical grout has been used to stop water movement through soils in mines, earthen dams, and excavation sites. It is also extremely effective in stopping leaks in buried structures.
