Company to install 12" water line via horizontal directional drilling
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 25, 2004 -- Underground Solutions, Inc. announced it has been awarded another Fusible C900™ PVC waterline installation to be completed via horizontal directional drilling. The work on the project will begin next week.
The 1100 foot run which consists of a 12" inch diameter Fusible C900™ pressure line is being installed for Baton Rouge Water.
Mark A, Smith, UGSI's CEO stated, "The interest that we have generated in our new line of Fusible PVC™ products is phenomenal. We have over 40 engineers, contractors, piping distributors and water providers planning on attending this Fusible C900™ installation."
Fusible C900™ and Fusible C905™ PVC and Fusible PVC™ are three new patent-pending products recently developed and introduced by Underground Solutions.
Each of the products cover a full range of piping diameters from 4 inch to 48 inch to provide a continuous, monolithic, gasket-free PVC pipe or conduit capable of being used in numerous trenchless (no-dig) or conventional "open-cut" applications. Applications for this revolutionary technology cover every aspect of piping installations including both pressure and non-pressure situations in the water, sewer, electrical, industrial and telecommunications industries.
According to a recent report by Uni-Bell, a leading authority on the piping industry, approximately 600 million feet of underground pipe is installed by the water and sewer industry in the United States each year. Of this amount approximately 76% or over 450 million feet is PVC.
About Underground Solutions:
Underground Solutions has developed and continues to develop unique and practical proprietary technologies focused exclusively on the underground infrastructure rehabilitation industry.
Total spending on this industry over the next 20 years is projected by the EPA and various agencies to exceed one trillion dollars. UGSI's products developed and successfully introduced into the market to date include Duraliner™, Fusible C900™, Fusible C905™ and Fusible PVC™. To date, the Company holds or has pending 13 various patents.
Duraliner™ is a unique patented process which allows the Company to replace deteriorated water lines and other pressure pipes with minimal excavation. It is the only pipeline renewal system resulting in a "stand alone" structural lining capable of handling internal minimum operating pressures of 150 psi with a 3.2 safety factor.
Duraliner™ conforms to NSF 61 Standards for Drinking Water Components/Health Effects. In addition, Duraliner™ provides an equivalent design-life of new PVC pipelines (75 to 100 years) thus qualifying the rehabilitated pipe lines to be capitalized as new assets under the rules of GASB Statement 34.
