Mix of New Installations and Rehabilitation Get Community’s Sewer System Back on Track

In emergency project, Florida contractor uses innovative technology to rehab miles of Fort Lauderdale sewers in just nine months

Mix of New Installations and Rehabilitation Get Community’s Sewer System Back on Track

Murphy Pipeline Contractors crew members fuse together HDPE pipe using a pipe fusion machine from McElroy on the job site in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Faced with a public works emergency caused by a series of disastrous breaks in aging, ductile iron sewer force mains — including one line that handles about a third of the city’s sewage — officials in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, found themselves in crisis mode in mid-2017.

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