Sometimes a failing sewer line presents a simple fix. Sometimes not so much.
The city of Aurora, Illinois, needed to restore sanitary flow through a badly compromised 10-inch vitrified clay sewer line under the northwest side of East Benton Street. The 180-foot section ran from a brick manhole at the intersection of Benton Street and Stolp Avenue to its exit into a sewer along the bank of the Fox River. At a depth of 16 feet, the sewer passed through a bridge abutment and beneath a massive covered concrete pavilion near a water feature between the river and the manhole. Major
