University Study Examines Safety Issues Surrounding CIPP Stormwater Culvert Repairs

Purdue University researchers have released another study looking at the CIPP process and potential safety concerns. Last year, a research team examined issues surrounding CIPP when using a steam-curing process. This time around, researchers focused on the use of CIPP in stormwater culvert repairs. “While the technology has been around for 30 years, there are very few laboratory and field studies on possible environmental effects,” says Andrew Whelton, an associate professor of civil engineering and environmental and ecological engineering at Purdue University. More research is needed to develop more definitive conclusions, researchers said, but in the course of the study, the team examined