Strong sewer odors permeating Franklin (Illinois) High School triggered complaints to Darrin Seymour, maintenance superintendent. He knew the problem stemmed from cracks in a 6-inch ductile iron main. The 205-foot-long pipe hung in a utility corridor beneath the main hallway, but most of the line was under 4 feet of backfill. Searching for rehabilitation options on the internet led Seymour to SLB Pipe Solutions in Bedford, Indiana.“The situation was bad,” says SLB Pipe Solutions co-owner Eric Spreen. “We pushed our RIDGID SeeSnake upstream through the 6-inch clean-out in the boiler room but couldn’t see much. The line was so occluded that forward


















