During the fall of 2018, the City of Toronto initiated a project to clean all three (3) sixty-inch diameter HDPE raw water intakes at the Island Water Treatment Plant, restore intake flow to its original design specification, and reduce plant operating costs. The Island WTP is vital to the City of Toronto and serves as the only source providing year-round deep lake cooling water for Enwave Energy Corporation, a private utility generating electricity. The hydraulic capacity of each deep-water intake as determined by Hazen- Williams “C-Factor” rating was markedly reduced during the 14 years of service since commissioning of these deep-water pipelines. Read More
Reprinted from Northeast Journal of Trenchless Technology Practices, Fall 2019
Rex Murphey has been leading pigging and testing projects across multiple industries since 1986. He is Founder and CEO of Montauk Services, specializing in pipeline pigging services and equipment for pressure pipeline cleaning for the water and wastewater industries. Rex can be reached at rex@montaukservices.net