Research Team Receives Grant to Measure Pollutants in DC Sewer Rehab Project

A University of Texas at Arlington civil engineering researcher has received a one-year, $300,000 competitive grant from the Water Research Foundation to evaluate a trenchless process rehabbing sanitary sewer pipes in Soapstone Valley Park, a popular Washington, D.C., attraction. Mohammad Najafi, associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, is leading the project.Najafi said the project will use a CIPP method with hot water curing.“We will collect data on any possible air and water pollutants arising from resin once the curing is in progress,” says Najafi, who also is director of UTA’s Center for Underground Infrastructure Research and Education (CUIRE). “Every