Tag: storm drain repair

Ground Works Featured in Trenchless Technology Article

By Robert Armstead

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.

Zero Excavation Inflow & Infiltration Restoration At the Naval Air Station in Pensacola after a High Water Event

By Robert Armstead

Ever since the U.S. purchased Florida from Spain in 1821, the site where the Naval Air Station (NAS) in Pensacola currently stands has provided a base for military operations.   In 1826, construction began on the Pensacola Navy Yard and it eventually became one of the “best-equipped naval stations” in the U.S.  During this period, the Navy Yard was used for docking and repairing the warships of that period. When the Navy saw the advantages of aviation in combat, Pensacola became an aviation training station in 1914 and the station was built on the side of the old Navy Yard.  In 2014, NAS Whiting Field celebrated 71 years in operation and is considered to be the “backbone of the Navy’s flight program” and is still one of the most important Navy bases in the U.S.

FDOT Makes Emergency Call to URETEK to Repair Storm Drainage Pipe

By Robert Armstead

When the pavement began to collapse and surface depressions began to appear along the pavement’s shoulder on Shoreline and Hoffman Drive in Gulf Breeze, Florida, the Florida Department of Transportation put in an emergency call to URETEK  to inject geotechnical polymer using the URETEK Method.

The video footage from a camera inserted into the storm drainage pipe showed that faulty joints at multiple locations was creating voids under the right-of-way, which was causing the pavement to collapse and surface depressions.

Tommy Russum, URETEK’s Sales Engineer, worked with…