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Article: Complications on the Rio Grande storm sewer trunk line is successfully rehabilitated using two trenchless methods.(Rehabilitation Technology)
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- Underground Construction
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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Repairing or replacing old, deteriorating utility infrastructure that has been buried in the ground for years and often directly beneath homes and businesses, is a challenge that has become common for the nation's utility providers.
Indeed, site conditions often make it impossible to make excavations to install new pipe, leaving rehabilitation the only construction option. Fortunately over the past decade, technologies have advanced to the point that rehabilitation often is the most cost effective method of construction, regardless of surface conditions.
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