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Philadelphia Tackles CSOs With Precast Concrete Box Culvert

Oldcastle Precast's special culvert garnered approval from the Phildadelphia Water Department and doubled capacity on a $12.5 million combined sewer outfall project

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Oldcastle Precast, Inc. Culverts Water Infrastructure Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Pennsylvania Stormwater Runoff Wastewater Management U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Philadelphia Water

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Philadelphia Tackles CSOs With Precast Concrete Box Culvert
The new state-of-the-art outflow has twice the capacity and will reduce the risk of chronic flooding in Philadelphia.

Oldcastle Precast supplied an 11-foot by 11-foot precast concrete box culvert with a V-shaped channel for the $12.5 million Laurel Street CSO improvement project in Philadelphia. It replaced the existing 100-year-old, 16-foot-diameter brick combined sewer outfall.

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