The Department of Public Works in the Village of Owego, N.Y., planned to reconstruct Spencer Avenue and needed the 24-inch clay sewer line running beneath it evaluated. Wastewater Superintendent Ron Horton suspected that the 80-year-old pipe, one of the oldest in the village, had problems, but the amount of sand, grit, and gravel in it prevented an inspection.Horton and his three-man crew spent 30 hours cleaning 300 feet of the line using a 62 gpm/1,000 psi floor-cleaning nozzle. “We were going nowhere fast, and we weren’t getting down to the bottom of the pipe,” he says. “We had to clean
