Alan Kam, City of San Jose, Dept.
of Public Works, and Russ Eberwein, Harris & Associates
The paper presents the results of assessment
and selection of segmental sliplining to rehabilitate a sanitary
sewer interceptor in San Jose, California. The paper outlines
the advantages and drawbacks of each option evaluated. Paper
describes the success or failure of the proposed work plan
and includes photos of the construction.
Matthew Hickey, P.E., City of Portland,
and Kim Staheli, Ph.D., P.E., Bennett/Staheli Engineers
This paper presents a case study in the use of
five trenchless technologies in an emergency wastewater pipeline
replacement project in Portland, Oregon. The paper summarizes
how trenchless technologies were the key to solving this infrastructure
puzzle.
This paper describes the important elements of
GIPL design and illustrates with design examples a sound approach
for rehabilitation of sanitary sewer systems using this class
of liners.
Robert McKim, Parsons Brinckerhoff;
John Morgan, City of Indianapolis DPW Engineering; and Steve
Nielsen, Earthtech
This paper sets out the decision making process
employed to compare the use of open-cut technology against
trenchless technologies; compares the characteristics of each
technology; and discusses the risk management system employed
to make the construction methodology decision.
Track 2
Asset
Management - Team Leader: Max Kieba, Moderator: Frank Badniski
Jason Lueke, PhD., P.Eng., Associated Engineering,
Ltd., John Cairns, P.Eng., City of Edmonton, and Herb Kuehne, MBA, P.Eng.,
Associated Engineering, Ltd.
This paper presents an overview of the City of Edmonton’s
WESS inverted siphon project focusing on the design and construction of
a 3,200 mm diameter 1,150 m long tunnel beneath the North Saskatchewan
River. Design challenges and solutions will be discussed, and an
update of the tunneling progress will be provided.
Hassan Al-Barqawi, PMP, M.Sc., EPCOR Water Services
Inc.
This paper presents condition rating scale and models that
can be used for prioritizing rehabilitation actions of water mains. These
models are based on the available physical, environmental, and operational
data. Case study is presented.
This paper will present both successes and failures of asset
management programs as related to water and sewer infrastructure from around
the United States.
This paper presents how the industry has to get “buy-in”
and inform all levels of a public agency and make cultural changes within
the agency if Asset Management practices are to be accepted and are to
work
Track 3
HDD Transmission Case
Studies - Team Leader: Mark Knight, Moderator: Michelle Lostra
Ronald Brunton, Fluor, and Dan Callnon, Cherrington
This paper is a case study describing the planning, engineering
and construction of two 3100-ft long crossings across San Diego Bay for
new and future 69kV electric transmission lines to Coronado Island from
downtown San Diego.
Brian Dorwart, Haley & Aldrich, Inc. and
Samuel T. Ariaratnam, PhD., P.E., Arizona State University
This paper discusses the present state of practice for heat
dissipation in these restricted access applications, the expected performance
of these applications, and thoughts for developing better technology for
this problem.
This paper describes a recent project involving the installation
of a 4200' river crossing with a HDD through solid rock in the Canadian
north during the winter months.
S. Wayne Miles & Christine M. Nesbit, CDM,
and Frank C. Styers, City of Wilmington NC
This paper presents a method for setting pipeline rehabilitation
priorities and demonstrates the successful application of this method in
a politically-charged and high profile environment.
Paul W. Amico, P.E., Armstrong and Associates,
Inc., and Michael Hendricks, City of Noblesville Wastewater Utility
This paper presents the results of a two-phase expansion
of the City of Noblesville, Indiana's water treatment plant that required
increasing the conveyance capacity of it's main combined interceptor sewer
by pipe bursting 1,300 LF of brick interceptor and rehabilitating 1,000
LF of brick sewer using CIPP.
Jasmine Cuffee, P.E., Harris & Associates,
and Danea Gemmel, P.E., City of Concord
This paper demonstrates the importance of electronic underground
utility locating and potholing, as well as the differences between Pipe
Bursting and the relatively new Pipe Reaming method.
This paper highlights the conditions of existing water distribution
mains in major Chinese Cites and the application and challenges of applying
pipe bursting techniques to replace aging and leaking pipelines for potable
water distribution.
This paper examines the benefit of pipe ramming for installing
casings under roads and rail lines. A case study involving repair of culverts
under the Union Pacific Railroad ROW illustrates the application of pipe
ramming in these situations.
Tuesday, April 17th - AM (2nd Session) —Technical Paper Sessions
Bethany A. Williams, P.E., Brown
and Caldwell, and Brandy A. Kelso, P.E., and Aimee D. Conroy,
P.E., City of Phoenix
This paper focuses on the design and construction
techniques used by the City of Phoenix for its 2005 and 2006
programs to rehabilitate the 15-mile Val Vista Water Transmission
Main.
This paper describes the lessons learned during
an inspection of the cement mortar lining of a large diameter
transmission main with particularly difficult construction
challenges.
George Bontus, Keith Oxner, and Ian
Jones, Insituform Technologies, Inc.
This paper discusses capabilities of some of
the most significant industry-leading rehabilitation techniques
that have been refined and implemented recently in North America,
the UK, Europe and Asia.
Track 2
Trenchless
Education - Team Leader: Jack Burnam, Moderator: Ken
Patterson
Glen Frank, P.E., HR Gray; Mike Nuhfer,
P.E., Lachel Felice & Associates; and William Wolfe, PhD.,
The Ohio State University
This paper describes a program that introduces
a large trenchless project to approximately 60 graduating civil
engineers. The trenchless project was integrated into
the curriculum of a major university, as part of a senior capstone
program.
This paper speaks to the development of the next
phases of the Pipeline Assessment and Certification Program
(PACP) and presents an overview of the new coding used in manholes
and laterals. Photos and typical coding of pipe, manhole and
lateral defects will be shown.
David Ouyang, P.E., Harshad Shah,
P.E., and Keith Hanks, P.E., City of LA, Bureau of Engineering
This paper describes the features of a customized
design tool and streamlined design approach developed by the
City of Los Angeles that expedites the delivery of projects.
The main features of this system is a program that uses standardized
design methods and documents in combination with a new GIS
based customized desktop design tool. The program provides
quality assurance/quality control by identifying and correcting
errors and omissions.
James Kwong, PhD, P.E. and Jeff Kalani,
P.E., Yogi Kwong Engineers, LLC; and Glenn Okita, P.E., Dept.
Design & Construction City & County Honolulu
This paper describes and compare problematic
geotechnical, design and construction management approaches
versus geotechnical design and construction management approach
that lead to successful completion of microtunneling installation
of 10,000 feet of 48-inch sewer and 30 shafts in problem soils,
privates properties prone to damages and under very difficult
traffic related constraints.
Robert A. Kahl and David C. Mathy,
DCM Engineering; Tim Healy, NAPA Sanitary District; and Ted
Whiton, Winzler & Kelly
This paper describes the design and construction
of twin sanitary sewer siphons within a 72-inch steel
casing installed by microtunnel pipejacking beneath the Napa
River in downtown Napa, California.
Jordan C. McCormack, Wade Trim, Inc.;
Bob Ericsson, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District; and Mike
Piepenburg, Hatch Mott MacDonald
This paper describes the engineering practice
used to design and construct a small diameter combined sewer
in restrictive alignment conditions including tunneling under
State Highway bridges and soft ground.
Track 4
Contracting
- Team Leader: Ken Chua, Moderator: Ken Chua
Time
Paper Title
Authors
Description
10:20 AM
Design-Build Sewer Renovation Case Study
Stan Kotowski, P.Eng, Tom Bragiel,
and Barbara Sztylka, Louis Berger, S.A.S
This paper uses a sewer renovation project in
Stettin, Poland as a case study to highlight the challenges
of implementing “Design-Built” in international projects. The
role of the Engineer, and the overall project management in
the project are discussed.
Joseph S. Kowalczyk, P.E., DEE and
Thomas Morgan, P.E., DEE, Camp Dresser and McKee; and John
D. Petinelli, P.E., Town of Whitman MA
This paper offers a direct comparison of design/build
to traditional procurement for equivalent sewer pipe rehabilitation
projects undertaken by Whitman MA in 2004 and 2006, demonstrating
design/build as the preferred project delivery method.
This paper describes how a major City moved to
a partnership arrangement with private companies to line sewer
laterals. The paper shows how such a partnership can work for
other Cities. It discusses the hurdles the City had to go through
(qualifying contractors, dealing with City labor unions) and
how a open cut culture was changed.
Joseph Loiacono, Sanexen Environmental
Services Inc., and John Vose, City of Naperville
This paper presents the City of Naperville case
study of the Briergate Drive water main rehabilitation project,
a first in the United States. It explains the reasons the City
chose to rehabilitate the water main using a structural CIPP
liner, the trenchless method for service connection reinstatement,
and indicate the technical and economical advantages it provided
to the city.
Michael Brown, Amir Fam, PhD., and
Ian Moore, PhD., Queen's University
This paper investigates the material characteristics
of a composite polymer liner designed to structurally rehabilitate
water distribution conduits. Data are provided for an exhumed
liner and the individual liner components.
The paper describes the evolution of the MainSaver™.
Difficulties such as low and high temperature lining conditions,
bleed, total mortar coverage, slump, consistent tube manufacture,
installation fittings etc. have been addressed. The key technical
issues associated with this aspect of the product development
are discussed with emphasis on tube production and cement mortar
development.
Keith Oxner, P.E., Insituform Technologies¸
Inc., and Joseph Barsoom, J- Barsoom Consulting Services
This paper provides specifics of the City of
Denver lining project, including details of the lining technology
utilized. The paper also explores details of the robotic technology
used for the internal sealing and reinstatement of the service
connections.
This paper discusses the objectives of the rehabilitation
of the potable water piping system and the technologies emerging
to answer those goals. Several new trenchless rehabilitation
approaches have emerged over the last two years that are beginning
to show promise for the potable water piping system. This
paper discusses those technologies and give guidance to the
engineer and system owner as to their applications, their economics,
and their benefits.
Track 2
Innovative
Technologies - Team Leader: Jason Lueke, Moderator:
Michael Comstock
Kevin Laven, and Cliff Jones, Pressure
Pipe Inspection Company, and Mark Knight, PhD., University
of Waterloo, and Caroline Amyot, Centre for Advancement of
Trenchless Technologies
This paper discusses the need for forcemain inspection,
the Sahara® wastewater acoustic system, and details from several
pilot cases studies performed in North America.
Arun Arunganathan, Erez Allouche,
and Neven Simicevic, Trenchless Technology Center, Louisiana
Tech University
This paper describes a novel inspection technology,
employing ultra-wideband (UWB) pulsed radar system, for detecting
“below surface” defects, corrosion, and out-of-pipe voids in
non-metallic buried pipes. Results of numerical simulation
and experimental validations are presented.
Harry Baum, Western Slopes Utility,
and Kwigs Bowen, Team Fishel
This paper discusses the development and implementation
of new HDD technologies for the removal of failed factory applied
liners on ductile iron sewer mains in Pima County, Arizona.
This paper describes a novel inspection technology,
employing ultra-wideband (UWB) pulsed radar system, for detecting
“below surface” defects, corrosion, and out-of-pipe voids in
non-metallic buried pipes. Results of numerical simulation
and experimental validations are presented.
Track 3
HDD:
Water & Wastewater, Case Studies - Team Leader: Brian
Dorwart,
Moderator: Jim
Hoggatt
Steve Deering, P.E., Dudek & Associates,
Inc., Chandra Collure, P.E., City of Solana Beach and Craig
Camp, Jacobs Associates
This paper describes important elements of design,
permitting¸ easement acquisition, and construction of 3,000
feet of HDD sewer forcemain installation across a sensitive
coastal lagoon and 1,000 feet of PVC structural rehab.
Kim Staheli, PhD., P.E., and Michelle
Ramos, L.E.G., P.E., Bennett/Staheli Engineers
This paper presents design and construction issues
associated with a 30-inch DR 9 2¸600 ft HDD Installation beneath
the Willamette River. The paper also presents lessons learned
during construction. Contractor prequalification was used to
ensure an experienced HDD contractor was used to complete the
work. A comparison of predicted and actual installation loads
is also presented in the paper.
Brian L. Woodworth, PE, Wade Trim,
and Mark Gahry, Charter Township of Brownstown, Michigan
This paper describes the use of directional drilling
to install a sanitary force main in unstable soils and protects
a historic corduroy road constructed during the War of 1812.
Thomas A. Traina, P.E. and Robert
M. Bellucci, P.E., King Engineering Associates and Ralph R.
Carpenter, M.ASCE, American Ductile Iron Pipe Company.
This paper will identify the many issues that
were addressed in the planning and design of the water transmission
lines that extended from Tampa Bay Water's distribution facilities
within Hillsborough County into Pasco County. The primary focus
will be on the permitting and successful crossing of Trout
Creek using HDD and flexible joint ductile iron pipe.
Track 4
Sliplining & Bypass
Pumping - Team Leader: Mike Spero, Moderator: William
Gill
This paper describes a case study of a water
transmission main rehabilitation that first required the rehabilitation
of a brick sewer interceptor directly beneath it, requiring
sliplining above and CIP lining below.
Qumar Khan, City of Concord California;
Jacqueline Jaques, CPT Technologies; and Mick Fuller, Re-Pipe
This paper discusses the process the City of
Concord underwent to evaluate various pipeline rehabilitation
technologies including CIPP, dig and replace and Rib Loc Expanda
Pipe. Key issues considered were the cost of materials, installation
and constructability issues, by-pass pumping, traffic issues
and street repairs.
4:45 PM
Temporary Diversion Systems
Michael J. Delzingaro, Godwin Pumps
of America, Inc.
This paper presents an overview of the required
data collection and planning necessary to implement a reliable
temporary diversion system.
Majid Tavakoli, Thompson Pump & Manufacturing
Co., Inc.
This paper discusses the efficient and effective
methods of wellpoint dewatering for the construction of below
ground structures. Wellpoint dewatering system components,
design and installation methods are also explained.
