Strip Mall Savior

Tunneling machine helps a contractor replace lateral lines and restore sewer service to businesses.
Strip Mall Savior
Mahana checks the target’s image on the monitor while Voudy (right) feeds out the pulling cable.

Sand leaching into a corroded 4-inch cast iron lateral caused sewage backups into a restaurant (which had to close), a check-cashing service and a bank on one block of a Santa Cruz, California, strip mall. High groundwater enabled sewage to wick up through the sand and the mall’s...

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