A Proactive Approach to Pipe Rehabilitation Is a Budget Saver

Proactive CIPP repair is a cost-effective way to keep sewers flowing from point A to point B.

A Proactive Approach to Pipe Rehabilitation Is a Budget Saver

Workers placed the cured-in-place pipe liners on ice to slow the curing process.

For too long, the city of Lawrence (Massachusetts) Water and Sewer Department took a strictly reactive approach when it came to sanitary sewer infrastructure repairs.

“We would only embark on an infrastructure project when something completely failed, collapsed and started causing backups, which was very costly for the city,” says Brian Peña, acting director of Public Works.

With many of the pipes about to reach their 100-year mark, the city needed a drastic change....

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