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Texas Water System Tackles
Fractured Pipeline
While Eagle Pass, Texas, can't solve the high heat and low amount
of rainfall it receives every year in the arid southwest, it has been
able to fi ght water loss due to breaks in its pipeline. Th e city recently
completed an upgrade to its mainline potable water service that saw
some 100,000 feet of PE4710 high-density polyethylene (HDPE)
DR 11 pipe installed in diameters from eight to 16 inches, to
replace older cast iron lines. Using open cut, horizontal directional
drilling (HDD) and pre-chlorinated pipe bursting, Murphy Pipeline
Contractors Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.) completed the job in early 2021.
Th e Eagle Pass Water Works System (EPWWS) has nearly 20,000
customers and a potable water system with more than 500 miles
of main lines and services, and nearly 1,600 fi re hydrants. Th e Rio
Grande River is the city's only means of water supply. According to
one report, the existing amount of water rights owned by EPWWS
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is not suffi cient to provide adequate water to the area.
While the project was fi rst considered in 2013, the need for
funding delayed the bidding solicitation process until 2018 for
the city that has nearly 30,000 residents. Th e majority of the
project was funded through the State of Texas drinking water
program enabling the city to secure the needed $17.4 million.
In its entirety, the project replaced nearly 100,000 linear
feet of existing cast iron water pipe and added 1,300 new water
services using HDPE tubing to connect the water main to
existing and new water meters.
Long-term development
" Originally, Eagle Pass started looking at this project probably
going back more than 10 years ago, " explained Todd Gafenauer,
educational director for Murphy. " HDPE pipe was selected as it
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