Heavy rainfall and increased demands overloaded the existing sanitary sewer system in Grimes, Iowa, and forced the municipality to add a new sanitary sewer line to its system. Rather than go the traditional route, engineers chose polypropylene pipe for the project, which reduced costs and sped up the installation.“The project had to be done quickly and efficiently,” says John Gade, P.E., of FOX Engineering, and Grimes’ city engineer. “The actual work started in January and was completed in March 2012, not usually the ideal time of the year to be installing pipe in Iowa. Fortunately, we had two things going
