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Giving New Life to Old Pipes, How To Fix A Sewer Without Digging Up Your Front Yard
The McCandless Township Sanitary Authority routinely relines its sewer lines to save money, and add decades of life to the 50 year old pipes.
Ross and McCandless residents living along Lindisfarne Drive undoubtedly noticed workers, armed with rolls of thick, white material, which they were inserting into sewer caps this week.
Once inside the pipes, the round material was inflated with combination of steam and fiberglass, creating a new pipe within a pipe.
The new inner lining will extend the life of the sewer lines by 50 years, according to McCandlesss Township Sanitary Authority Superintendent Dennis Blakley.
"This process is usually less half the cost of digging up the line and replacing it," Blakley said. "And we don't have to dig up streets and yards to do it."
It is also much less time consuming.
"We relined roughly 1,600 feet of pipe inside a week," Blakley said. "It would take a lot longer to dig up the old pipe and replace it."
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