Fort Lauderdale-led forcemain replacement moves through Oakland Park with monthsmore of phased drilling, road closures

City and contractor engineers described to the Oakland Park City Commission on May 7 the scope, schedule and neighborhood impacts of Phase 4 of Fort Lauderdale’s Coral Ridge forcemain replacement, a major sanitary sewer transmission project that runs through parts of Oakland Park.

The project replaces roughly 16,500 linear feet of sanitary force main countywide; Phase 4, which runs mostly in Oakland Park, covers about 7,500 linear feet and includes large-diameter pipe installations using horizontal directional drilling and open-cut connections, city and contractor staff said.

Why it matters: the pipeline carries wastewater flows from parts of Fort Lauderdale, Oakland Park and Wilton Manors; in wet seasons the existing line can carry on the order of 18.5 million gallons per day, the engineer said. Officials said the work is intended to reduce the risk of failure from an asset originally installed in the late 1970s.

The contractor and engineer described methods and timing. Vince (engineer, Chen Moore & Associates) said crews are installing a series of large horizontal…