Accurate visual assessment of the interiors of manholes, boreholes, drilled shafts, or other vertical cavities is essential for efficient planning, maintenance, rehabilitation,...
Manholes and Catch Basins
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SEWER: Training, Technology, Teamwork
Santa Barbara is a historic coastal California city with underground infrastructure that dates as far back as 1870. Maintaining and rehabilitating the...
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SEWER: The Right Battles
Since 2006, the City of Alexandria, Va., has been aggressively rehabilitating its sanitary sewers to address infiltration and inflow. With the bar...
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SEWER: From Mains to Manholes
Positioned between Lansing and Saginaw in central Michigan, Corunna was a small town with big problems. For more than 30 years, its...
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The Hole Solution
Manholes are vital components of the wastewater infrastructure. In recent years, inventive manufacturers have developed accessories that improve on the basic structure...
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Just Right for the Job
The Blair Township Water and Sewer Authority sends wastewater to three area municipal treatment plants and is under a mandate from all...
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SEWER: The Flow of Intelligence
Trying to meet wastewater conveyance and treatment needs without accurate flow monitoring is a little like trying to find your way in...
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SEWER: No Big Dig
As a suburb of Boston, Mass., the Town of Dedham was all too familiar with the pitfalls, disruption and enormous costs of...
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SEWER: Learning by Doing
Leak detection and repair has truly been a live-and-learn experience in Westlake, Ohio.Aided by a unique testing protocol that pinpoints problem areas,...
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Plugging the Leaks
High levels of hydrogen sulfide had corroded 1/2 to 1 inch of the concrete-brick and precast concrete manholes in Kalamazoo, Mich., causing...
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Approaches to Sealing
Manhole rehabilitation is an essential weapon against infiltration of clear water to sewer systems. Manufacturers have developed a wide range of approaches...
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SEWER: Period of Discovery
When the U.S. EPA ordered the Warwick Sewer Authority (WSA) to develop a plan to assess the adequacy of its collection system...
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SEWER: Around and Under
Ogunquit is a seasonal resort town on the coast of Maine, but its sewer district faces some big, non-seasonal problems: relentless tides,...