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    Earth Berm for Traffic Control?

    Riversidean, I just got done submitting guardrail plans for a USFS road where our design speed is 20 MPH but a very high ADT. I looked into berms as a permanent barrier but in only one location did we find that it was feasable due to space constraints. The only specifications / guidelines...
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    Water Main Construction / Testing Difficulties

    Jefferson, Finally have had time to research and get your questions answered and proceedures clarified... 1.) What (location) is being tested - Only the blow off, unless as required by the specifications an additional sample port every 1000 LF. I agree with sampling from a nearby house and...
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    Water Main Construction / Testing Difficulties

    Jefferson, Your expertise and intrest in this delema / debacle is appreciated! Now that I am getting familiar with this forum I have read the rules and understand that it would be taboo to exchange information through this website. I do believe that I could still contact you outside of this...
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    Water Main Construction / Testing Difficulties

    Bimr, when the Contractor clorinates the line he has an "inital" residual of 50mg/l. After 24 hours he staill has a 50mg/l residual. In essence none of the disinfectent is being utilized. Cheers to you Bimr :O) I do want to clarify something about my knowledge base; I am more of a structural...
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    Water Main Construction / Testing Difficulties

    kwdwaterengineer, once I get a chance to sit down this weekend I will get your questions answered and give a synopsis that is more encompassing! Thank you for your time and I have to say this is a great tool for us engineers to be able to utilize. As I am a manager within my company I am going...
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    Water Main Construction / Testing Difficulties

    Bimr, to clarify the samples are being taken by the Project Engineers field inspector and to the best of my knowledge he is taking the appropriate precautions and following the appropriate proceedures. Assumeing that this is true do you have any insight / opinion on my proposed hypothesis...
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    Water Main Construction / Testing Difficulties

    I currently have a Client that is installing water main extension(s) to rehabilitate an existing system and is encountering difficulties that I believe are beyond his control. Any advise on means or meathods that he can utilize to mitigate this problem would be greatly appreciated, and ideas of...

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