Major renewal project calls for HDPE pipe

Atlantic Street in Springfield, Mo., is notorious for water line breaks. It has been cut up and torn up more times than anyone can count to make repairs on a 1925 cast iron water main that is buried only three to four feet underneath. Any kind of weather — heat waves, cold snaps, droughts and downpours — can cause the ancient pipe to burst or rip at the joint under the patched street. A recent …

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HDPE Plays Key Role in Reflecting Pool Renovation

Washington D.C. is home to some of the United States’ most prized and revered memorials. To the nearly 24 million people who visited the mall in 2011, the Reflecting Pool was more science project than a scenic and iconic tourist stop. Several key improvements were needed to keep the largest and most famous reflecting pool in the capital sustainable for years to come. The pool, originally constructed in the early 1920s, has been relatively untouched …

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Polyethylene Pipe Plays Role in Wastewater Treatment Plant Renovation

The Town of Denton, Maryland installed a 400-foot-long high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe as part of needed wastewater treatment plant upgrade. The smooth-walled HDPE pipe is an important component in the treatment plant’s enhanced nutrient removal upgrade. Within the 54-inch diameter DR 32.5 pipeline, chlorine has adequate contact time with effluent to disinfect the town’s wastewater before being chemically de-chlorinated and released back into the environment. The environment is of key concern in the Chesapeake Bay …

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Unique Slipline Project Solves Problematic Springfield Water Mains

Within eye shot of the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, a double-barreled pipeline runs underneath the Connecticut River. The paired pipelines are one of three water main crossings that pass under New England’s longest river to service the communities of Springfield, Ludlow, Agawam, Longmeadow, East Longmeadow and several others. Like much of America’s infrastructure, the key pipelines were aging and precarious until a 2011 sliplining operation gave the pipelines new life. Likely constructed …

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