Fast-growing Bixby, Okla., Tasked with Building New Infrastructure

Fast-growing cities like suburban Bixby, Okla., are continually tasked with building new infrastructure that will sustain the influx of new residents. The city’s overtaxed sewage system is just one example of needed improvements as more and more homes were built north of the Arkansas River in what was once a gap between Bixby and Tulsa. A state-issued consent order will not be lifted until the city increases its short-term wastewater treatment capacity to serve some …


Fusing Pipe in Florida

The Florida Keys are a 127-mile chain of small islands that bring a unique geography to Monroe County, Fla. So when it comes to providing thousands of residents and millions of tourists with public services across land and sea, you can’t let something as big as an ocean get in your way. The state of Florida is mandating that a central wastewater system and treatment facility be constructed and completed throughout the Keys by Dec. …


HDPE For Outdated Florida Keys Sewage System

Once you cross the 18-Mile Stretch into the Florida Keys from the mainland, the world seems to turn at a happily slower pace. By car, there is only one way to get there — a 127.5-mile, mostly two-lane road known as the Overseas Highway (U.S. 1). It travels along a patchwork of land and sea featuring 42 bridges including the Seven Mile Bridge atop portions of the former Overseas Railroad. Only an estimated 76,300 people …


DataLogger® 5 goes wireless with instant uploading and review

TULSA, Okla. — McElroy is pleased to bring wireless capability to the DataLogger® 5 which gives pipe fusion operators the ability to upload data to the DataLogger Vault™ where it can be reviewed and analyzed in real-time from anywhere in the world. Fusion data can now be uploaded instantly from the field via Wi-Fi or cellular and reviewed and analyzed the same day. Fusion operators no longer have to physically connect the DataLogger to a …