California Utility Uses Creativity to Combat Manhole Infiltration

A California sanitary district makes an agreement with Oatey to develop a manhole sealant product

Jan 18, 2023 | by Giles Lambertson |

Truckee 2 — Truckee Sanitary District has a standard operating procedure in which any manhole that is removed has a bead of Hercules Shutout applied to the lip before the cover is replaced. This small effort has already sealed a third of the system’s manholes from infiltration.

Living in paradise is demanding for anyone charged with keeping it unpolluted. That’s the responsibility given to Blake Tresan, general manager and chief engineer of the Truckee (California) Sanitary District.Truckee is located next to a river of the same name, which flows from nearby Lake Tahoe. The town sits nearly 6,000 above sea level in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This combination of lake waters and mountain slopes in a pristine California setting lures weekend tourists year-round. They trek there to visit Mother Nature in all her paradisiacal glory — hundreds of thousands of them every year.That is a lot of

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