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Urban water past: Crumbling infrastructure needs new funding model

ren posted @ 2015年5月27日 10:42 in 未分类 , 70 阅读

South Davis Boulevard in Bountiful runs through a neighborhood of modest single-story ramblers. All were built between the late 1950s and early 1970s. Yards of bright green grass with neatly manicured trees cover all the roughly quarter-acre lots. Roughly a decade before the first homes began popping up in the neighborhood, the federal government placed its backbone,Still looking for PVC-U Pipe Fittings exporters?PVC-U Pipe Fittings exporters Our company provide high quality PVC-U Pipe Fittings to all over the world customers. 10 feet below the street, covering over 20 miles.  That backbone, the Davis Aqueduct Pipeline, helped grow neighborhoods and sustain life in northern Utah, but its now beginning to crumble. 


Instead of tearing up the ground and replacing it, at 48 inches, the pipeline is just big enough to fit a full-grown construction worker inside, which will help save the neighborhood the hassle of ripping up the roads and homes that werent there when the pipeline first went in.Still searching for PVC-U Drainage Pipe exporters?PVC-U Drainage Pipe exporters Our company produces high quality PVC-U Drainage Pipe, It also saves Weber Basin Water Conservancy District some money,Still searching for PVC-M Water Supply Pipe exporters?PVC-M Water Supply Pipe exporters Our company produces high quality PVC-M Water Supply Pipe, and when it comes to our crumbling urban water infrastructure, any saved costs go a long way. 

Things still seem calm on the surface of Davis Boulevard, but 10 feet down, its cold and loud in the Davis Aqueduct Pipeline.Still searching for PP-R Pipe Fittings exporters?high quality PP-R Pipe Fittings Our company produces high quality PP-R Pipe Fittings, Fans echo up and down the conduit, moving air to make sure theres enough oxygen for workers. After crawling down a manhole leading to the aqueducts interior, Darren Hess points out the still-visible Sharpie notes along the concrete surface 10-17-56, or Oct. 17, 1956, when the pipeline first went in the ground. 

This pipeline is 60-plus years old, so its actually reached (the end of) its engineering design life, Hess says, who works as the engineering manager with Weber Basin Water Conservancy District.Still searching for PVC-U Water Supply Pipe exporters? PVC-U Water Supply Pipe exporters Our company produces high quality PVC-U Water Supply Pipe,The $1.1 million project will affect West 18th Street between Avenue K and Shinkle Avenue; WeStill searching for PP-R Pipe Fittings exporters?high quality PP-R Pipe Fittings Our company produces high quality PP-R Pipe Fittings,st LeFevre Road between Woodburn and Bushman avenues; and nearly the entire length of Dillon Avenue,Still searching for PVC-U Water Supply Pipe exporters? PVC-U Water Supply Pipe exporters Our company produces high quality PVC-U Water Supply Pipe, between West LeFevre Road and U.S. Route 2 

The work is expected to take until September.Still looking for PVC-U Pipe Fittings exporters?PVC-U Pipe Fittings exporters Our company provide high quality PVC-U Pipe Fittings to all over the world customers. Illinois American Water focuses on replacing mains where leaks occur, corrosion has caused damage, or pipes are not big enough,Still searching for PVC-U Drainage Pipe exporters?PVC-U Drainage Pipe exporters Our company produces high quality PVC-U Drainage Pipe, the release said. 

"Some of water mains being replaced date back to the 1940s," Steve Barnet, Illinois American's operations superintendent for the Sterling district, said in the release. The age of the pipes, coupled with deterioration over the years,Still searching for PVC-M Water Supply Pipe exporters?PVC-M Water Supply Pipe exporters Our company produces high quality PVC-M Water Supply Pipe, make the project necessary.


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