Rehabilitation
JEA Takes Lead In Proactive Sewer, Water Maintenance
Most major American cities today face multiple challenges to provide basic water and sanitary services.
HydraTech Engineered Products PolySpray SS100
PolySpray SS100 is a rapid setting elastic polyurea monolithic coating.
Remote Inspection Equipment: Envirosight
The SuperVision SAT lateral launch system crawls 300 feet down mainlines 6-inches and larger, and then inserts its camera as far as 100 feet into laterals 3.5 inches and larger.
Remote Inspection Equipment: RedZone Robotics
RedZone’s Multi-Sensor Inspection (MSI) service integrates data from six sensors on the powerful Responder robotic platform, targeted for large diameter pipe 84 inches.
Remote Inspection Equipment: Ratech Electronics
The Portable Mini-Mainline is designed for small- to medium-sized municipalities and contractors looking for an affordable entry level Mainline Video Inspection System.
Remote Inspection Equipment: UEMSI
U-Tech Environmental Manufacturing Supply Inc. (UEMSI) showcases the new ProCam DVR system.
Remote Inspection Equipment: CUES
The Summit is a fully integrated power control system that is compatible with all CUES cameras, transporters, and the LAMP II wheeled lateral launcher.
Remote Inspection Equipment: Radiodetection/SPX Corp.
The P350 flexitrax system supports three interchangeable, high-resolution cameras.
2009 Rehab Selection Guide
View the definitive listings on the companies that specialize in rehab work, from CIPP to CCTV, manholes, trenchless pipe replacements and beyond.
UCTA Presents WaterWorks 2009
The Underground Construction Technology Association (UCTA), formerly known as the Gulf Coast Trenchless Association, invites you to join a group of expert speakers from across North America who will share their knowledge and insight into the critically important water infrastructure market.
First Look: Lateral Spot Repair System Uses UV Light
A new small-diameter, sewer lateral spot repair system using an ultraviolet (UV), light emitting diode (LED) cured-glass fiber composite laminate has been introduced to the United States by Cosmic Tophat LLC.
Working Through Challenges, Clay Pipebursting Project Exceeds Expectations
As are many American cities, Phoenix, AZ, is facing the need to make major improvements to its sanitary sewer system.
Rehab Roars
Over the past 15 years, the underground utility rehabilitation market has exhibited a strong pattern of growth, particularly in the sewer and storm water market.
EPA Announces $179 Million in Recovery Act Funds for Wastewater Infrastructure Projects in Texas
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded over $179 million to the Texas Water Development Board in a bid to provide jobs, improve the local environment and update aging infrastructure.
Underground Tools Inc. directional drilling pipe
Underground Tools Inc. offers a selection of premium quality directional drilling pipe for nearly every make and model of drill rig on the market.
Organic “High-Build” Spray-in-Place Liners – An Emerging Class of Rehabilitation Methods
As the water distribution infrastructure continues to deteriorate across North America, there is a continued need to develop pipeline rehabilitation methods that are cost effective and minimally disruptive, while also minimizing the time a pipe must be taken out of service.
Frozen Sand Provides Directional Drilling Challenge
What acts like solid rock, but really isn’t rock and is located in the heart of the Midwest? That’s a good question, and Tim Huttmann with TH Construction Company, based in Omaha, NE, knows the answer.
Complications On The Rio Grande
Repairing or replacing old, deteriorating utility infrastructure that has been buried in the ground for years and often directly beneath homes and businesses is a challenge that has become common for the nation's utility providers.
New Robotic Inspection Technology Helps ID Potentially Critical Situation
Early this year, water officials in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, became aware there were cracks in one of the city's primary large diameter sanitary sewer trunk mains that threatened the Don River watershed and homes in one neighborhood.
NY awarded largest EPA grant in history
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded more than $430 million to New York state for wastewater infrastructure projects, which the EPA says is the single largest grant in its history.
Tech Upgrade Enhances Utility’s Locating Program
Massachusetts is rich in history, but not everything “old” is charming. An example is the aging infrastructure that is often hidden or buried in many cities throughout the state.
Insituform InsituMain
Insituform has announced a new product for pressure pipe rehabilitation.
CIPP: Insituform Technologies
Insituform’s iPlus Infusion achieves a tight fitting pipe-within-a-pipe by implementing a pull-in installation method.
CIPP Leaves Diverse Attractions Undisturbed
Reno, NV, offers many attractions to live up to its billing as “The Biggest Little City In The World.” When choosing a contractor for a sewer rehabilitation project that involved both busy downtown and more remote idyllic settings, city of Reno engineers selected cured in place pipe (CIPP) specialist PIPEnology to avoid disrupting the city’s activities.
CIPP: RS Lining Systems
CityLiner is a premier mobile CIPP technology providing everything customers need to maintain and repair wastewater piping systems.
CIPP: AMerik Engineering
Saertex-Liner is a 100 percent fiberglass liner designed for gravity pipe systems.
First Look: See-Through PVC Panel Rehab System Introduced By National Liner
National Liner LLC has introduced a trenchless rehabilitation lining process that uses see-through PVC panels to rehabilitate circular pipes, box culverts and structures of other shapes.
CIPP: International Pipelining Technologies
IPL Technologies is the North American leader in UV-light CIPP for sewer mains and storm water pipes.
CIPP: Reline America
Blue-Tek CIPP liners and equipment by Reline America are environmentally safe with undetectable styrene levels in third party testing.
CIPP: Inliner Technologies
Inliner Technologies provides solutions for deteriorating pipelines ranging in diameter from 4 to 96 inches.
- OSHA cites Florida contractors for trench safety violations at sewer and excavation sites
- Cadiz to reuse steel from terminated Keystone XL pipeline for California groundwater project
- Lynchburg, Va., breaks ground on largest-ever Blackwater CSO tunnel project
- Biden-Harris administration invests $849 million in aging water infrastructure, drought resilience
- The EPA announces $6.2 billion in funding for Iowa and Kansas water infrastructure