ABEL RECON

Keep It Flowing -There’s a word for traffic disruptions around Harrisburg,the Pennsylvania state capital: ugly. When two dual pipelines running deep beneath one of the area’s busiest arteries showed signs of deterioration, no one wanted to repair it by conventional dig-and-replace methods.

Instead, the PennsylvaniaDepartmentofTransportation(PennDOT) settled on a trenchless solution involving a spray-on structural coating. The job saved months of traffic disruption and an estimated $2.6million. read more...