{"id":5134,"date":"2019-11-15T12:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T12:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formadrain-com.k0bdwxs7-liquidwebsites.com\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2021-10-29T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T15:42:14","slug":"empipe-lining-solutions-to-the-rescue-at-the-palace-of-purification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formadrain.com\/en\/empipe-lining-solutions-to-the-rescue-at-the-palace-of-purification\/","title":{"rendered":"Empipe Lining Solutions to the Rescue at the Palace of Purification"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RCThe RC Harris Water Treatment Plant, located on Queen Street East in Toronto, Ontario, cleans, disinfects and converts Lake Ontario water into potable water for the City of Toronto\u2019s distribution system.\u00a0 Operating 365 days a year, it handles roughly 460 million litres of water every day, amounting to some 45% of the water supply for Toronto and York Region.<\/span><\/p>\n

Construction began in 1932 and the facility was commissioned in November 1941.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is no ordinary water treatment plant.\u00a0 The facility, sometimes referred to as the \u201cPalace of Purification\u201d, was named for Rowland Caldwell Harris, Commissioner of Works from 1912 to 1945. \u00a0 Mr. Harris was renowned for his sense of the aesthetic and had his architect, Thomas Canfield Pomphrey, design a masterpiece in brick, limestone and copper in the art deco style.\u00a0 Michael Ondaatje writes, \u201cHe modeled its entrance on a Byzantine city gate, and the inside of the building would be an image of the ideal city\u201d with its marble floors and rounded arches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering named the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant a historic civil engineering site in 1992, and in June 1998 it was designated a Heritage Property.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, when several of the stacks were leaking, breaking open walls or disturbing any of the infrastructure to repair them was entirely out of the question.\u00a0 The problem was how to line these vertical stacks with a structural product. The solution was the Formadrain system of repair.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Formadrain licensee, Empipe Lining Solutions, had a number of obstacles that they overcame with great success.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because the ground does not support the pipe, lining a vertical stack is a precision procedure.\u00a0 The installation was done through a cleanout, something many other systems do not have the capability of.\u00a0 The cleanouts were located in the building attic, well above street level. Because the attic had no windows, hoses were run through another stack from the roof and then attached to the bladder inside the stack being repaired.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The bladder was first inflated with air.\u00a0 This step was necessary because in a vertical application, gravity can cause the heated resin to flow and sag down the liner and put it out of position.\u00a0 Inflating the bladder with air first ensured a successful steam cure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Added to the other challenges was the hot working environment.\u00a0 The outside temperature was more than 90 degrees F and working quickly was crucial.\u00a0 But Formadrain\u2019s four-hour working time resin and the marvel of Formadrain\u2019s totally predictable steam curing process gave the contractor absolute control of the work from the start to the successful completion of this important job.<\/span><\/p>\n

Download a free info pack or contact Bruce Stevenson, Business Development Manager, at 1-888-450-3986 or\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Bruce@formadrain.com<\/i><\/b>\u00a0to find out more about Formadrain\u2019s premier system of no-dig pipe rehabilitation.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The RC Harris Water Treatment Plant, located on Queen Street East in Toronto, Ontario, cleans, disinfects and converts Lake Ontario water into potable water for the City of Toronto\u2019s distribution system.\u00a0 Operating 365 days a year, it handles roughly 460 million litres of water every day, amounting to some 45% of the water supply for […]<\/p>\n

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