No Gamble Here: HDD a Success in Atlantic City

摘要

Installed more than a century ago, the two 36-in. diameter cast iron sewerage force mains transporting all of the sanitary waste out of Atlantic City, N.J., were deteriorating and becoming a problem for their owner, Atlantic City Sewerage Company (ACSCo) to maintain. Much of the ACSCo's infrastructure had been replaced over the last several years. However, sections of the New York and St. James force mains — as commonly called by the ACSCo — crossed waterways and marsh lands in Atlantic City. Recognizing that replacing these force mains in environmentally sensitive areas would require a trenchless technology, the ACSCo retained the engineering services of Buchart-Horn to develop a plan and prepare the construction documents.