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Port Hueneme completes 4,200-foot sewer force main replacement after emergency failure
Summary
City officials say crews finished replacing an aging asbestos-concrete sewer force main with a new HDPE line pulled through an abandoned Oxnard host pipe, completing the work faster than expected and with minimal public disruption.
Port Hueneme city officials told the City Council on March 3 that the long-running emergency repair to a failed sewer force main is finished and in service.
The project replaced roughly 4,200 linear feet of a failing asbestos-concrete pipe (ACP) that had been corroded by hydrogen sulfide. Public Works Director Fred Camarillo said the city installed a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) main inside an existing, abandoned 24-inch host pipeline acquired from the City of Oxnard, then backfilled the void with lightweight foam concrete to stabilize the assembly.
The work followed an unplanned failure that produced a sinkhole and prompted an immediate repair. The line carries roughly a million gallons of sewage a day and serves base and city areas that cannot be taken…
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