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Shallow Depth Water Lines
Just wanted to tell you you guys are great and you have been keeping me pretty busy with the suggestions and articles. I have contacted a local excavator and both of the trenching companies in the articles to get some quotes. One of them has done a major project in our area installing...- JustAPM
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- Forum: Civil/Environmental engineering general discussion
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Shallow Depth Water Lines
Bimr The trenching equipment you sent links to looks pretty impressive, especially since the machines create their own backfill material!! One issue I see though is those big steel tracks. All the pictures show the equipment being used ahead of paving and it looks like ahead of road base being...- JustAPM
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- Forum: Civil/Environmental engineering general discussion
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Shallow Depth Water Lines
Bimr, I am listening to what you are saying and actually I think I am incorrect in talking about a double wall pipe. Double wall pipes are used all the time in solar hot water heating systems to run potable water through a heated storage tank fed by solar collectors. The air space between the...- JustAPM
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- Forum: Civil/Environmental engineering general discussion
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Shallow Depth Water Lines
I live in an area that is served almost extensively by wells. At this point the area is more suburban than rural and there has been contamination of the wells in many areas. There has been a push to put in water lines but the local water company always throws out $200 per foot to install water...- JustAPM
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