Sewer pipe line repair in New Jersey

New Jersey's dense older suburbs and cities have laterals under sidewalks, streets and small lots where a trench disrupts everything. Trenchless lining and pipe bursting keep the work in the existing alignment and out of the right-of-way.

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The Northeast has the widest mix of old pipe anywhere: cast iron and clay from the early 1900s, Orangeburg from the 1940s through the 60s, and some transite and even wood-stave pipe in the oldest towns. Laterals are long and deep and typically cross a sidewalk and a street to reach a main that may be a century old.

Freeze-thaw cycles, dense clay and rocky glacial soils, big street trees, and tight urban lots leave little room for an excavator even when the ground allows one. Cities and towns tightly control any cut in the sidewalk or roadway.

Lining or bursting from inside the property avoids the street permit, the traffic control, and the restoration bill that make an open-trench replacement so expensive here.

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