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Article: HDD sewer installations in the nick of time.(Directional Drilling)
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- Underground Construction
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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The picturesque seaside village of Ogunquit, ME, recently completed improvements to its sanitary sewer system which reduces infiltration problems, increases capacity and bypasses much of the old, ductile iron infrastructure with new HDPE pipelines.
Because much of the system was put in place before recent growth in the town--structures have been built directly over existing sewer lines. Therefore, much of the new pipe has been installed by horizontal directional drilling. Routes of other pipelines were completed by HDD because site conditions made other methods of construction impractical or impossible.
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