Portland Utilizes Sliplining to Rehab Century-Old Stormwater Tunnel

City of Portland and its hired contractors successfully take on the task of rehabbing a 4,000-foot-long section of century-old deteriorating stormwater infrastructure

Portland Utilizes Sliplining to Rehab Century-Old Stormwater Tunnel

A 108-inch-diameter section of fiberglass-reinforced pipe is maneuvered into place during sliplining of the Taggart Outfall in Portland, Oregon.

There are large-diameter pipeline projects in which huge and heavy sections of pipe are wrestled and fitted into place. Then there are confined-space, close-tolerance pipe-laying projects where exactness and precision are paramount engineering concerns. 

The Portland Bureau of...

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