Company offers pipe relining products
When a pipe that is buried deep under a road collapses new products now are available to put in a new lining as opposed to digging up the road to remove rusty pipes.
Bob Archer, with Specialty Pipes and Steel, presented a sample of his company’s product that is used to reline pipes that he said will last over 100 years.
The company sells and installs fiber glass pipes used in a variety of industries.
Archer, president of the company, said his company just installed five miles of the heavy-duty fiberglass pipe for a sewer in Lakeland, Tenn.
He said the product is strong and can hold up as liners for culverts, lasting 150 years.
It is sold by the foot. A black HDPE pipe is also available that is often used for water mains, gas mains, sewer mains, slurry transfer lines, rural irrigation, fire-suppression system supply lines, electrical and communication conduits and stormwater and drainage pipes. The hoop strength of the fiber glass product is three times stronger than black pipe, he said. County engineer Larry Britt presented progress on several county projects.
AT&T asked for a permit to trench 3,000 feet of cable on Old Oxford Road south of Waterford.
Bids will be opened Nov. 14 on an elevated water tank to be built at the Project Poppy (battery plant) site.
Phase 5 extensions on the west side of the interchange on construction road 7b will be negotiated with Yancey Brothers.
The board made a motion to advertise for negotiation.
Britt offered an alternative method to raising the bridges on Blackwater Road in District 4, rather than driving new pilings.
He said the current pilings, fabricated of steel, can be raised to the proper elevation for the bridges by splicing new sections of steel to the existing pilings.
He said that could be more cost effective than taking the bridge off and driving new pilings. The pilings on one bridge would be raised five feet and on the other by about three feet using the splicing technique.
The board approved a motion to allow Britt to provide cost estimates for the bridge raising project.
In zoning matters, zoning administrator David Johnson reported the planning commission board had approved rezoning of a property owned by Irene Seldon from RE to I2 (heavy industrial). The property is located in the Chickasaw Trail Industrial Park and is surrounded by industries.
The board approved two cleanup orders, one at 200 Porter Drive in the Nonconnah Subdivision where tall grass needs to be cut. The other is on Highway 349 South in Potts Camp where an R.V. Is parked and littered by leaves.