Early last summer, Troy Ouverson — the owner of Ouverson Sewer and Water, a pipe lining and repair company in Minneapolis — encountered a job that tested his employees’ skill and mettle.The problem: a ruptured 4-inch-diameter residential lateral line that apparently had been leaking for years. For starters, the lateral configuration was unusual, to say the least. Two lateral lines — one running from each of two adjoining houses — merged inside a private manhole, then continued as one pipe from there out to the main sewer line. “In all, there was a total of 400 feet of pipe,” Ouverson
Ruptured Lateral Puts Trenchless Specialists to the Test
In addition to an unusual configuration, 400 feet of line was leaking at every elbow joint — from manhole to the 22-feet-deep mainline.
May 31, 2016
| by Ken Wysocky |
