Purdue University

Materials emitted by a water pipe-repair method may pose health risks, new safeguards and research needed

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New research is calling for immediate safeguards and the study of a widely used method for repairing sewer-, storm-water and drinking-water pipes to understand the potential ...
Scientific American

In a Pipe Repair Worker’s Death, Questions of Safety Still Swirl

In 2017, 22-year-old Brett Morrow descended 20 feet underground while working for Benchmark Construction Company, a Bartlett, Illinois-based firm contracted by the nearby Village of Streamwood to ...
The Spokesman-Review

Do it yourself or not? Repair a frozen water pipe

Once you’ve experienced the trauma of frozen water pipes, you take extremely cold weather and your home’s vulnerability more seriously. The low temperature freezes the water inside the pipes. The ...
Vail Daily

After tree roots infiltrate a prominent Eagle River Water & Sanitation District pipe, repair uses specialized technology to solve the problem

In June, Eagle River Water and Sanitation District staff learned of a problem: The sewer interceptor pipe running through EagleVail had an irregular flow pattern. While there were only minor impacts ...

Bitter cold is coming. When should you drip water faucets? Avoid frozen pipes

Winter storm blasting ice and snow is on heels of polar vortex bringing bitter cold to MS. Should you drip faucets? How to ...
Circle of Blue

Cured in Place? An Underground Pipe Repair Raises Questions.

In October 2017, Brett Morrow, a 22-year-old rugby player known as “String Bean” to his teammates, died while helping to install a plastic liner inside a Chicago-area sewer pipe. He had descended a 20 ...