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HydraTech is always training and retraining its crew. In this blog, Caleb Rutledge recounts the HydraWrap demonstration the field crew participated in to prepare them for an upcoming fiber wrap application on a pair of vertical digester pipes.
17 HydraTite box seals were installed in a storm drain sump. A small crew was able to rehabilitate this system’s joints in only 7 onsite days.
In a recent project, HydraTech’s crew climbed into two culverts to install HydraTite Internal Pipe Joint Seals over every pipe joint. One location had a single 54″ culvert and the other was a triple 39.5″ culvert. In total 45 joints were sealed. This installation will guard against infiltration and will help protect the road above from the formation of sinkholes.
A water pollution district discovered infiltration with a camera inspection. They chose HydraTite as there trenchless solution that could be installed without the pipes being taken out of service.
HydraTech custom-manufactured seals to perfectly fit these culverts and our field crew installed them quickly, providing a long-term repair for these 45 joints.
In this project, 5 HydraTite seals were installed to address leaking at a water treatment plant. 4 of these seals were installed entirely underwater. Two divers installed the seals and each seal was installed in 1 to 2 days. The leaks were eliminated and the facility has had success using this repair method on other joints that were not in the scope of this project as well.
A water treatment plant discovered leaking joints in their influent pipes and basins that were part of the filtered water conduit. These systems were structurally sound but compromised at the joints. HydraTite provided a targeted repair that could be installed without the system being dewatered.
This is one of our more simple jobs. There are only circular seals with only two retaining bands each and the job site has easy access to the culvert. Because our regular field crew was out on another assignment Will Blais was the project manager and I was asked to assist. To round out our team, my brother Jesse joined us.
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The plastic ADS had developed leaks due to the high head pressure. Extra-wide seals were installed with an additional retaining band to address the leaking joints.
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Inspection of a cast-in-place conduit from the early 1920s revealed 13 joints in poor condition, three of which had developed active leaks. HydraTite seals successfully eliminated the leaks and fortified the other joints against the formation of future leaks.
A municipal pump station discovered a cluster of pinholes in an 18” FRP pipe. HydraWrap with acid-resistant epoxy was used to repair this pipe quickly, resulting in minimal downtime.