underground utility Articles
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Geoweb base stabilization solution for soft subgrades New Mexico - Case Study
Overcoming Site Challenges: Time Constraints Extremely Soft Subgrades Shallow Underground Utilities Geoweb System Strengthens Highway Subgrade The Project New Mexico’s State Highway and Transportation Department (NMSH&TD) made news with innovative financing and a record setting pace in the construction of 118 miles (190 km) of four lane highway along a route in the ...
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Bioremediation Of Highway Spills On Sites With Shallow Underground Utility Lines
Highway spills involving saddle tanks of trucks are fairly common and in such cases almost 104 gallons of diesel are released in the environment. Although excavation is a preferred method, bioremediation using AgroRemed is considered another option in many situations like this one in West Virginia where the underlying cables were likely to be damaged. At the end of bioremediation, the values of ...
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Scanning proposed borehole locations for Utilities case study
Environmental and engineering firms often are tasked with performing soil borings for monitor well installation as part of a Phase II Environmental Site Assessment. This task becomes more challenging when the borings are to be installed in gasoline stations, right of ways or other areas where there are numerous underground utilities that are either unmarked or not properly located. GeoView can ...
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Case Study - Pipeline Subsidence
Looking for sinkholes Pyramid Environmental recently performed a geophysical investigation for the National Park Service at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in Carlsbad, NM. The survey used electrical resistivity mapping (ER) to look for potential underground caves or caverns near an area designated for the construction of an underground utility line. A 2D resistivity survey was performed along ...
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MB Crusher Game Changer for Colorado Excavating Company Passing Gradation, Saving 35 Percent
When Avalanche Excavating, Inc. was awarded a project in April 2015 that dealt with 11 blocks of underground utilities, storm sewers, and water lines in Salida, Colorado, the company knew it would not have much room to navigate the spoils it would encounter. Both Howard Houghton III and Tabitha Hapl from Avalanche Excavating foresaw the challenges of hauling off the waste material to be ...
By MB Crusher
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Protective coatings for underground utility concrete structures
As our cities and municipalities grow older, the utility and wastewater infrastructure and corrosion preventive program for underground asset protection are aging with them. Municipalities and Utility Companies are struggling to handle rehabilitation measures and effective corrosion prevention programs to deal with prolonging the life of their buried assets. More municipalities are in the process ...
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Staying on the radar for utility mapping
As the underground utility industry develops, so do its standards and technologies. To keep pace with modernisation, ImpulseRadar continues to offer the industry the familiar 2D systems and newer 3D models of its ground penetrating radar solutions. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology is vital to utility locating and mapping, with the non-intrusive method allowing for the surveying of ...
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PEWE The Dannon Company Case Study
The Dannon Company manufactures a variety of frozen yogurt products at its Portland Oregon “YoCream” facility. Issam Khoury, then the YoCream International manager purchased the PEWE dissolved air flotation (DAF) unit as part of an overall discharge improvement package. According to city officials it was the last plant to install a primary wastewater treatment system. While city ...
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Poweram comes to Africa
ll Koser of Poweram, Inc. in Barron, WI is doing his part to move the current U.S. trade deficit towards the positive side of the balance sheet. Koser and his wife, Mari, now into their 41st year of manufacturing in Barron, have just completed a deal that put one of their Poweram hydraulic pipe pusher-pullers into service across the Atlantic Ocean to the coastal city of Accra, the capital of ...
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HDD-Exploring and Navigating Through the Terrastellar Cosmos
The following excerpts are from a featured article that was originally published in Trenchless Technology. In the very recent past in a galaxy far, far away (actually M87 a mere 55 million light years away), the first images of a black hole were reportedly made deep in space. Pretty impressive stuff but a bit closer to home is the reality that horizontal directional drilling (HDD) activity is ...
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Utility Locating and Mapping at a Power plant case study
An expansion was planned at a power plant in west central Florida. As part of the design build plan, all of the utilities within the proposed building footprint had to be located and mapped. There were two phases of the investigation. Utility designation was the first phase. This involved studying existing as-builts, performing site walkthroughs with plant personnel in order to ascertain a ...
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Global Site Decommissioning - Case Study
Challenge: A global oil and gas company required final decommissioning at a former terminal and blending facility that had been idle for almost a decade. The 2.5 acre site, located in South Africa, required the removal of all above and below ground structures, underground utilities, process equipment, buildings, concrete slabs and foundations. The objective of the project was to demolish the ...
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How the City of Tavares, FL utilizes a Vacuum Excavator - Case Study
The City Director came to Phillip Clark, Water Supervisor for Tavares, FL – America’s Seaplane City, with details of a surplus in the budget. “What can we add to our fleet to work smarter and not harder? What out there in the industry is new and innovative?” He asked. Mr. Clark is constantly researching and reading about what is innovative and groundbreaking. He says that ...
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Automated Treatment System Used to Solve a Costly and Environmentally Critical Wastewater Problem for an East Coast Utility
BACKGROUND Hydrocarbon and particulate contamination in wastewater is a well-known environmental hazard. Due to tightening environmental regulations, an ever-increasing source of such contamination in major cities comes from water collected from underground utility vaults and manhole water. This contaminated water, contains a smorgasbord of potential contaminants from transformers, ground ...
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ImpulseRadar’s Latest Addition Facilitates Productive Utility Location
Swedish-based GPR manufacturer, ImpulseRadar, might be a new name to the utility location industry; however, the company is rapidly developing a reputation as an innovator. The company recently introduced its newest product, PinPointR, an intuitive GPR utility locator instrument for the dependable location of underground assets. ImpulscRadar is a rapidly growing utility location manufacturer, ...
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Subsurface Utility Engineering for Professionals Workshop
16-19th December, Golden, CO Utility Investigation School: Buried Utility Asset Management Institute-International; Colorado School of Mines Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute of ASCE ImpulseRadar is proud to announce that Matthew Wolf, President of ImpulseRadar USA Inc., is among a group of respected industry professionals invited to join a panel on SEU Technologies at the Subsurface ...
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Soil Fracturing
Introduction Fracturing is an enhancement technology designed to increase the efficiency of other in situ technologies in difficult soil conditions. The fracturing extends and enlarges existing fissures and introduces new fractures, primarily in the horizontal direction. When fracturing has been completed, the formation is then subjected to vapor extraction, either by applying a vacuum to all ...
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Navigating uncertain ground using the right equipment
Starting with specialization It started with one man and his pickup truck. Tom Banks’ then one-man operation was rooted in specialization. Formed in 2001, Banks Gas Services, Inc. quickly grew from one employee to nearly one hundred. Today the company is a full-fledged gas distribution contractor headquartered in the Pittsburgh area and serving gas distribution companies in Pennsylvania and ...
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Crowder-Gulf Disaster Debris Management Responds to Hurricanes’ Havoc
Untitled Document Bonnie...Charley...Frances...Ivan. If the state of Florida could be compared to a fictional prize fighter. It would have to be called Rocky. The series of blows it has sustained should have flattened it. Instead, like its fictional counterpart, it has rebounded and fought back...thanks in large part to a man named Jimmie Crowder, head of Crowder Excavating, ...
By Diamond Z
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Substation Design and Automation for Olak Lempit Substation Project, Banting, Selangor, Malaysia - Case Study
Project In 2017, Malaysia’s largest utility company Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) awarded Pestech International an RM 79.5 million power system installation contract to upgrade the Olak Lempit substation in Banting from a 275/132-kilovolt facility to a 500-kilovolt substation to provide power to the rapidly growing area. The project team needed to coordinate with another main contractor ...
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