Wave of the Future

A UV-cured lining system enables a Florida contractor to rehabilitate storm drains under an active runway
Wave of the Future
The airport project required workers to plug the drain inlets to prevent surcharging before dewatering the pipes with a Gorman-Rupp 6-inch high-flow pump. Tides ranged from 2 feet above the crown to 12 inches below the pipe. (Photos courtesy of Engineered Lining Systems, Jacksonville, Fla.)

About 85 percent of the joints were leaking in the 30-inch concrete stormwater drains under a runway at the Northeast Florida Regional Airport in St. Augustine. The three 440-foot pipes ran side by side, had joints every three feet and drained tides from the Atlantic Ocean.

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