Excessive infiltration/inflow may cause sanitary sewer overflows during wet weather

What do you know about infiltration and inflow? Infiltration is defined as Groundwater entering sanitary sewers through defective pipe joints and broken pipes. Leaky pipes can be caused by careless installation or from damage after installation by differential ground movement, heavy vehicle traffic on roadways above the sewer, careless construction practices in nearby trenches or…

Hampton Roads EPA To Minimize Sanitary Sewer Overflows

How much is the region spending to address Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSOs) and who is paying the bill?  Basically, anytime untreated sewage gets out of the sewer system there is a problem. Every effort is made to design, construct, and operate the system so that no sewage ever gets out of the system.  However, occasionally some…

Norfolk Scope Trenchless Drain Repair Project

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM-GQZuvLZ4] Dynamic Drain Technologies was called in to take a look at a 100-foot stretch of 14-inch drain line that was causing constant backups. This drain line just so happened to go underneath the kitchen of the Norfolk Scope. Norfolk Scope is a cultural, entertainment, convention and sports complex at the northern perimeter of the downtown Norfolk, Virginia area,…

Department of Defense and RGI General Contractors Save Huge Money with Pipelining

RGI contacted us in late August about a possible opportunity to work on a highly restricted Joint Force DOD base in Suffolk, VA.  The base was under a full renovation to bring the highly technical building up to date to house cyber warfare. During the construction, RGI found an 8″ vertical storm drain that was separated…

What’s in an ICC-ES PMG listing?

The ICC is the International Code Council dedicated to helping people build a safer world. The ES stands for Evaluation Service and PMG stands for the Plumbing, Mechanical and Fuel Gas industries. The ICC-ES has long been the industry leader in performing technical evaluations for code compliance. The provide regulators and contracting professionals with clear evidence that…

Sewer Pipe Lining with 100% Solids Epoxy Resins

Over the last couple of months we have had several info requests on our epoxy technologies.  So in order to clear up any confusion we decided to post this blog to better inform people on the different resins and epoxies we use here at  Dynamic Drain Technologies. To simplify things lets break up the common…