Sunny Meadows Pipebursting Project
Fort Wayne, Indiana
The purpose of this project was to identify and evaluate rehabilitation alternatives and other possible options that would provide a similar degree of wet weather relief, and to develop bid documents for the selected alternative.
A hydraulically limited 12-inch sanitary sewer in the Sunny Meadows area caused sewer backups during wet weather. The existing sewer is approximately 2,640 lineal feet of an asbestos cement pipe, which discharges into an 18-inch interceptor sewer west of Sunny Meadows.
The project team, led by Project Manager T. J. Short, examined several rehabilitation alternatives to resolve the wet weather-related problem. Rehabilitation alternatives included installing a cured-in-place pipe liner, pipebursting with the installation of a larger pipe, excavation and sewer replacement with a larger pipe, and a combination of installing a cured-in-place pipe liner or pipebursting with the addition of a relief sewer. Pipebursting the 12-inch sewer and placing a larger 16-inch sewer in place of the host pipe would provide additional hydraulic capacity for future wastewater flows and would provide the capacity needed to eliminate sanitary sewer backups during wet weather.