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Sewage treatment in Victoria | McLoughlin Point Wastewater Treatment Plant

Started by VicHockeyFan , Aug 04 2006 05:37 PM

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Poll: What do you think of the report $1.2 billion Dollar sewage treatment cost. (77 member(s) have cast votes)

What do you think of the report $1.2 billion Dollar sewage treatment cost.

We need it and waited too long that is the cost of waiting too long! (65 votes [23.47%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 23.47%
Local, Provincial, and Federal politicians will find a way to help cut down the price to property owners. (3 votes [1.08%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 1.08%
Out of the question, too expensive for Greater Victoria. (122 votes [44.04%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 44.04%
It expensive, but if we do nothing costs will only rise. (20 votes [7.22%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 7.22%
We need to do it but greatly scale back the project. It has grwon out of hand. (34 votes [12.27%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 12.27%
No opinion, I do not know enough about the project to say of the costs are out of line or not. (33 votes [11.91%] - View)
Percentage of vote: 11.91%

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#5101 Sparky

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Posted 05 February 2018 - 07:32 PM

Now for a peek from the the business end.

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#5102 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 06:44 AM

It looks like the pipe will need to be flexible to go around that bend. Or will they weld it as they push it through?

Maybe it’s just bendy enough to make the corner. I think the plan is to haul it all fully welded through. If they were adding pipe and welding as they sent it through they would not have to line the sections up for blocks down Niagara.

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#5103 Bingo

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 07:11 AM

Specifically:

•Niagara Street will be used to assemble the pipe that will be pulled through the directional drill passage between Ogden Point and McLoughlin Point.

•Assembling the pipe involves delivery of the pipe segments, which will be laid along one side of the street, and welding the pipe together.

So if they pull the pipe through and it breaks, is the diameter wide enough to send a guy down there and fix the break?

What is the diameter of the pipe?

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#5104 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 07:13 AM

It’s got to be at least 48”, no?

So a dwarf welder could do the job standing up.

http://www.thepeople...rs#.WnnGanB6rYU

But if the drawf lives in the wrong side of Niagara he will need a set of 6’ ladders to get over the pipe at the edge of his front lawn to get to the time clock to punch in. Unless he goes all the way around. With his short legs that could take him half a day. They’ll need to build that delay into the schedule.

Edited by VicHockeyFan, 06 February 2018 - 07:21 AM.

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#5105 Bingo

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 07:16 AM

We could be onto something with pipes under the harbour.

Would it be feasible to build a passenger style "Chunnel" all the way from Metchosin to Ogden Point?

:construction:

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#5106 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 07:20 AM

Just for dwarfs? Too small a market, forgive the pun.

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#5107 tedward

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 09:18 AM

It looks like the pipe will need to be flexible to go around that bend. Or will they weld it as they push it through?

When the project people met with the school admin and PAC about this, they said they will weld it together on Niagra St, lift it as one-unit with multiple cranes. and then put down the hole.

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#5108 tjv

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 12:03 PM

If anyone has the plans I can decipher it a little better. They probably aren't pipejacking it

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#5109 Bingo

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 12:17 PM

When the project people met with the school admin and PAC about this, they said they will weld it together on Niagra St, lift it as one-unit with multiple cranes. and then put down the hole.

I can hear the cheering section already..."pipe in the hole...pipe in the hole" :banana:

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#5110 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 12:24 PM

Pipejacking VIDEO.

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#5111 tjv

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 01:14 PM

here is a pic of a tunnel under construction I did for a 60" watermain about 20 years ago

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#5112 tjv

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 01:22 PM

here is the TBM (tunnel boring machine) just starting out. As I recall it was a 96" diameter

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#5113 Bingo

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 04:18 PM

I don't know why they just didn't dredge a channel across the harbour lower the pipe and fill it in, just like they did the Telus cable by the bridge.

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#5114 Bingo

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 04:24 PM

It’s got to be at least 48”, no?

So a dwarf welder could do the job standing up.

http://www.thepeople...rs#.WnnGanB6rYU

But if the drawf lives in the wrong side of Niagara he will need a set of 6’ ladders to get over the pipe at the edge of his front lawn to get to the time clock to punch in. Unless he goes all the way around. With his short legs that could take him half a day. They’ll need to build that delay into the schedule.

I suppose now your going to tell us that you have had previous experience pushing pipe through a hole back when you were 3'10" tall.

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#5115 tjv

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Posted 06 February 2018 - 05:40 PM

I don't know why they just didn't dredge a channel across the harbour lower the pipe and fill it in, just like they did the Telus cable by the bridge.

Because a telus cable can move, its not a pressurized pipe which can't shift much other wise the steel with fatigue and eventually break.