Over the past 12 months, the entire construction industry has experienced unprecedented raw material increases in both underground piping and vertical building. With some products, raw materials costs have tripled. In addition to these exponentially rising material costs, raw material availability for thermoplastic resin has been limited in many

Being in the wastewater industry, I felt an unexpected sense of pride when my 5-year-old daughter asked me about “poo” as she sat in her carseat on the way to school.  I cheerfully started to explain how pipes carry waste to the treatment center, but she interrupted with “Daddy, Winnie the Pooh lives in the Hundred Acre Wood”  … sigh. It’s times

When I was young, my parents would mention that they remembered where they were when they first heard President Kennedy had been shot. They even had old newspapers which covered the assassination stashed away. While I understood this saying to signify a terrible event in US history, I could never fully understand the gambit of emotions that they

You may be new to DuroMaxx® Steel Reinforced Polyethylene (SRPE for short) pipe. If you are, here is a brief introduction. What is DuroMaxx SRPE? DuroMaxx is the brand name for this innovative technology. “Durability / Maximum Benefits / Ultra Large” … if you get the naming methodology. And steel reinforced polyethylene is exactly what it sounds

Let’s get a basic idea of what inlet control is from a culvert hydraulics standpoint and compare it to outlet control. When you have a flow through a culvert, there is a limit on the capacity of fluid conveyed through the culvert. Inlet control applies when the culvert barrel has more capacity than the inlet will accept. Outlet control is the