Chemical Grouting to Seal Out I&I

Orange County takes a joint-specific approach to reducing inflow and infiltration

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Chemical Grouting to Seal Out I&I

Orange County Sanitation District team members work on grouting joints in one of two aging sewer trunk lines where inflow and infiltration had been a problem.

Photography by Ed Carreon and the Orange County Sanitation District

Why line an entire sewer pipe when grouting the pipe’s joints will stop the inflow and infiltration? That was the question Orange County (California) Sanitation District Senior Engineer Dickie Fernández first asked himself and then the utility’s engineering managers.

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