Municipal Sewer Cleaning: Train For Gain
By Del Williams
Expert training, onsite demonstration, and in the field resolution of the toughest challenges helps operators and contractors become significantly more productive.
For municipalities and contractors with heavy workloads cleaning sewer, storm and sanitary lines, the fastest route to getting the work done on-time and on-budget is often learning best practice techniques and equipment options, demonstrating them onsite, and then resolving specific problem areas in the field with expert guidance.
“Traditionally, sewer cleaning techniques are passed down on the job from person to person, but seldom systematically taught. In our case, we always instructed that you go up toward the manhole and then start cleaning as you return. That is a misconception in the industry – one we lived with until we got expert training,” says Marty Tew, a Fayetteville PWC Water Resources Construction Field Supervisor.
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Municipal Sewer Cleaning: 7 Tips To Achieve Better, Faster Production
By Del Williams
Industry experts provide guidance to optimize cleaning efficiency, while preventing or quickly resolving problems such as tough blockages and “blown toilets”
Operators cleaning municipal sewer, storm, and sanitary lines face a host of challenges on the job. This can range from having to clean miles of line in the most efficient manner, complying with annual regulatory mandates, or handling tough blockages caused by roots, grease, and cave-ins. It can even involve dreaded “blown toilets” which can become a community clean-up and public relations nightmare if this occurs too often.
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GLADSTONE The Gladstone City Commission discussed the Stormwater Asset Management and Wastewater Program (SAW) its recent meeting. The SAW grant gives money to develop asset management plans for wastewater and stormwater systems.
A presentation was made by Civil Engineer Ashley Hendricks of engineering and architecture design firm C2AE to discuss the data compiled. “The main goal of SAW was to determine or identify what needs the most attention. From there, more detailed analyses would need to be done to identify project scopes, street by street, coordinate with the replacement of other utility replacements such as water or storm and come up with more accurate project costs. So this just kind of outlines what should be kind of looked at in the future,” said Hendricks.