The mechanical contractor for Forepaugh’s Restaurant hired a plumber to clean the drains, but the attempts only enabled the restaurant to limp along until the next episode. The contractor then called Grant Utilities, a local water and sewer utility contractor specializing in cured-in-place pipe rehabilitations.
Grant Utilities’ owner Grant Engen used a MyTana camera system to inspect the 4-inch cast iron lateral from a kitchen cleanout. At 11 feet, the camera revealed the problem. “The joint had failed where the lateral connected to the 6-inch clay tile sewer,” he says. “Wastewater hitting the debris backed straight into the kitchen.”
Although 12 feet
