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Deep Sewer Installation Upgrades Infrastructure Edited by Christina Fisher, 4/28/2008
Sometimes the solution to a problem is so ideal that it can be applied repeatedly. This was the case when officials of the city of High Point, North Carolina, decided to replace an entire interceptor system instead of just one sanitary sewer. The old sewer was concrete, but they wanted pipe with a much longer service life. More
Supersized Plano Pipe Burst By Jeff White, Two Rivers Marketing - 03/03/2008
As officials from Miller Pipeline Corporation and Earth Tool Company considered bidding on a major mainline sewer replacement project ...
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Cured in Place Pipe Rehabs Sewer Staff - 03/03/2008
Insituform recently provided an inexpensive and time-saving solution on a sewer rehabilitation project for the city of Pine Bluff Ark. Using its cured-in-place pipe ...
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Installing The Big Sandy Pipeline Staff - 02/25/2008
Gary (Red) Bailes of Leslie Equipment puts his pickup truck into four-wheel drive and heads up the nearly vertical slope of the construction right-of-way to where the workers for ST Pipeline Inc. are installing the Big Sandy Pipeline.
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New Penstock For Old Hydro Plant Edited by Paul Fournier - 01/28/2008
Laboring in a remote, heavily wooded area, construction crews recently replaced half of a badly leaking wood stave penstock serving Public Service of New Hampshire's (PSNH) Jackman Station, an 80-year-old, hydroelectric generating plant in Hillsborough. JML Trucking and Excavating of Errol, N.H., was the installation subcontractor for general contractor CCB Inc.
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Sliplining A Brick Sewer — Circa 1896 Staff - 12/24/2007
In 1986, the United States Congress established The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and provided $100 million for construction of a permanent headquarters facility in Washington, D.C. It will be locatedat the northwest corner of the National Mall, facing theLincoln Memorial and adjacent to the Korean War andVietnam Veterans memorials.
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Drilling Under Swearing Creek By Christina Fisher - 12/10/2007
Lexington Utilities has embarked on a 42-mile expansion of its natural gas pipeline in Lexington, N.C. It is one of the largest expansions in the city's history. A recent challenge on the job has been a 1,000-foot bore through 45,000-psi rock underneath Swearing Creek, which is part of High Rock Lake.
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Water Management, Everglades Style By Steve Hudson - 12/03/2007
In south Florida's Everglades, water has been an issue in the spotlight for some time now. Concerns over impacts from agricultural runoff, as well as more fundamental concerns over the fundamental matter of getting adequate water in the first place, have drawn national attention. To deal with those issues, a number of projects are in design or under construction.
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JCB Hosts Inaugural Roadshow At Savannah Factory Contractors and other industry representatives from throughout the region converged on the JCB factory in Savannah for the first of several JCB Roadshows scheduled for various locations.
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