Upper Conduit Repair

Just off the East side of I-215 near exit 1 stands an iconic rock formation known as Suicide Rock at the mouth of Parley’s Canyon. This highly vandalized rock is a billboard for youthful rebellion, love, loss, and causes they support. The name is adopted from a local Native American legend of a Native American maiden who threw herself from this lookout point because her betrothed Brave was killed in battle.

A steep winding dirt service road with sharp turns along the Parley’s Creek and rock formations is the main access to this site where a new waterline was placed inside the older pipeline. These conditions made it impossible to get large equipment down to the bottom or to get trucks bearing any load back up the road after working on the annular fill inside the pipeline.

LCC was the only solution to access these areas, maintain low injection pressures, flowability required, and the experience to fill the annular void in this pipeline. Our team met with their superintendent immediately after being contacted to discuss a pour plan. By dividing the fill into 4 separate sections with 5 injection points, we were able to run over 1000’ of hose to fill approximately 1400 LF of annular fill. This was achieved by staging our equipment in one location in the general contractor’s “yard” next to their water supply.

This was only one phase of the project. We look forward to the next phase and LCC going where no other lightweight flowable fill has gone before!