Wastewater Utility Employs Sliplining to Fix Corroding Pipe

With the pipe buried below a busy highway and a need to keep it in service, Warwick Sewer Authority officials had to look beyond the dig-and-replace method
Wastewater Utility Employs Sliplining to Fix Corroding Pipe
(photo courtesy of Warwick Beacon)

The sole pipe delivering wastewater to the headworks of the Warwick Sewer Authority’s (Rhode Island) treatment plant lies beneath Interstate 95. So the fact that the 48-inch cement pipe was corroding and needed repair created a dilemma for the utility.

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