Category: Culvert Repair
Trenchless Rehab Solution Lifts Box Culvert in Pensacola, Florida
Ground Works lifts a quadruple box culvert 24″ in this trenchless culvert repair project
Trenchless Technology Magazine
August 8th, 2016 by Aaron Hall
In April 2014, Florida’s panhandle experienced a historic flooding event, which was highlighted by 20 in. of rainfall in just two days. For perspective, on average, the rainfall in this area is just more than 60 in. a year.
This once-a-century event caused numerous sinkholes, portions of Interstate-10 were closed and the soils of the entire region were completely saturated for an extended period of time. As the rain waters eventually receded, a large amount of voids were created in the soil, wreaking havoc on the affected areas public works and infrastructure systems.
Jackson Lakes Box Culvert
Specifically, as a result of this storm, the Jackson Lakes box culvert in Pensacola suffered a tremendous amount…
Ground Works Featured in Trenchless Technology Article
In the July 2016 issue of Trenchless Technology, Ground Works Solutions’ CFO, Aaron Hall, writes about the successful rehabilitation of a box culvert in Pensacola, Florida. In the piece, Aaron discusses the problems created by historic flooding in Escambia County and how Ground Works Solutions was able to lift a box culvert structure by two feet in order to restore its long-term viability.
You can read about the scope of the project and the challenges in the article here.
Sealing Annular Space in a Sliplined Pipeline
In the United States, billions upon billions of gallons of stormwater are transported through the local sewer systems every day. The pipes that the water travels through have different degrees of structural integrity. Some of the pipes are as small as 8 inches in diameter and some are as large as 120 inches. The storm sewers can be made out of brick, metal, concrete, clay and plastic. As communities grow and these sewer systems age, local governments are forced to incur costs far beyond the material and labor to rehabilitate or expand the pipelines. Government officials must also figure out how to alleviate traffic delays, as well as business interruptions and disruption to neighborhoods, which can add to the cost of repairing the stormwater system.
One of the oldest and most cost effective methods of rehabilitating an existing drainage pipe is called sliplining. With sliplining, a new, smaller “carrier pipe” is installed inside the old, larger “host pipe.” …
