When a nearly 60-year-old gravity sewer line collapsed last year ? the City of Dallas ? Texas was faced with a difficult ? and potentially expensive, municipal emergency. The line had collapsed by the upstream manhole ? causing a massive backup. During its initial repair of the line ? the...
Work on Collapsed Blackfoot Sewer Line ContinuesEvensen, Kendra
(which runs sanitary waste and stormwater through the same pipes) suffered a serious shock when yet another unseasonable storm event hit the city.This time, infiltration and erosion undermined a major sewer line, and its subsequent failure led to a dramatic collapse of a section of sewer line ...