Entries Tagged Pipeline Rehabilitation/Lining

Olathe, Kansas, is a growing suburb of the Kansas City metropolitan area with 141,000 people and almost 11,000 manholes. Ira Speer oversees...

Faced with a public works emergency caused by a series of disastrous breaks in aging, ductile iron sewer force mains — including...

The Sewer Division of the Greenwich (Connecticut) Department of Public Works planned to upgrade critical sewer line at multiple manholes along Bruce...

How do you fight back against a fatberg? The first obvious step is to know your enemy. Fatberg is a term coined in...

Don't bet against Mother Nature. If you're hoping that your town or city won't experience a sanitary sewer overflow, the odds are...

When a sanitary sewer overflow occurs, the natural reaction is to repair it as quickly as possible and stop untreated wastewater from...

The statistics are staggering. Each year in the United States alone, we experience up to 75,000 sanitary sewer overflows that release close...

Record rainfalls in Memphis, Tennessee, eroded the soil supporting a 96-inch sanitary sewer main, causing the line to fail. With nearly 40...

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, like hundreds of other cities across the nation, is tackling the challenges of upgrading its water and sewage system as...

In Pennsylvania, Xylem Rental Solutions took part in a bypass-building project that felt a lot like a barn raising. The feeling was generated...

Emergency bypass systems are built with rental pumps, piping, generators, bulldozers and lots of other equipment — but the ones that work best are built through trusted...

When Monroe County, New York, which serves both a large residential population and the nearby campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology,...

In the spring of 2016, an unprecedented 16 inches of rain fell on the city of Memphis, Tennessee. This extraordinary event eroded...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Hayward Fault — situated just east of the San Francisco Bay — may be...