Tuscaloosa rushes to repair the sewage pipe according to 275,000 gallon leaks

The Tuscaloosa City Council is hurrying to approve expensive emergency repairs on a large sewage system that was badly damaged last week and caused a leak that has been stopped since then.

At a meeting on Tuesday afternoon of the project from the Council's project, Michael Gardiner made an urgent application for an estimated 430,000 US dollar to remedy the problem.

Gardiner informed the city council that a problem that was caused by a failed storm drainer tube last week with severe rain events, achieved a critical mass.

Gardiner said the problem was near High County Apartments and Regal Point Apartments in the Cypress Creek Avenue on Skyland Boulevard.

The storm outflow, which consists of corrugated iron, failed and left some of the huge amounts of rainwater that drove through it, from the pipe and in the floor around the Cypress Creek Avenue.

This underground river undermined the ground around it, and when the earth was washed out, there was no longer enough structural integrity to keep the storm outflow line.

Wastewater – the stuff that you wash down toilets and shower processes – and rainwater are worn in different systems in tuscaloosa, but the storm outflow line broke in last Thursday and crushed a large tone channel line, broke open and caused a waste water and leak.

The city reports on its sewer and overflowing into the Department of Environmental Management in Alabama and reported on May 10 on a spill of 275,200 gallons wastewater in Cypress Creek.

“This is an 18-inch sampling line, so it is one of our rather important transport lines for sanitary channel,” he said. “We immediately started with the help of water and sewer to set up a bypass – to close the leak and pump the waste water.”

Gardiner said he also spoke to PRICE CIVIL Services, Inc. about emergency repairs.

You replace the damaged sewage pipe and add a new structure with a new 42-inch storm outflow that runs to Cypress Creek.

Grackiner said he had a very rough cost estimate when repairing the problem on Tuesday morning, hours before the committee meeting, and this loose number was 433,000 US dollars.

“We have to continue as soon as possible,” said Gardiner. “We will pull this money from our drainage fund in the neighborhood. We have the money to cover it. In our drainage fund in the neighborhood, we have programmed the items that we have programmed ourselves for obtaining projects that are preparing for offering.

The city council is expected to expose normal rules and are correct to approve the repairs on Tuesday evening, instead of waiting until next Tuesday as expenses that this large one would normally need.

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