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Engineer: 21,000 feet of sewer video shows no catastrophic failures but finds widespread sand, debris and needed cleaning
Summary
An MPCA-funded sewer televising of about 21,000 feet found no catastrophic line failures but identified many short pipe repairs, service-lateral infiltration, and sections inundated with sand and debris; an engineer will deliver a written report and cost estimates and will attend the March meeting to answer questions.
Jason, the engineer who presented on the MPCA-funded televising, told the board the contractor completed about 21,000 feet of sewer inspection and did not find any "catastrophic failure(s)." He said most problems were discrete: short sections of pipe needing repair, service laterals contributing infiltration and inflow, and several segments that were "inundated with sand and debris."
"They didn't find anything that was like a catastrophic failure," Jason said. He described repeated jetting in some locations — in several places the contractor had…
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