This article also appeared in American City & County. Read the article here. If you think Hurricane Katrina was the first time New Orleans suffered major flood damage, think again. Flooding has been as much a part of New Orleans’ […]
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In January 2014, Discovery Science Channel’s How It’s Made Episode 13 included a segment on the making of spiral-welded steel pipe. The segment was filmed at AMERICAN SpiralWeld in Columbia, South Carolina. Click here to view.
Read MoreOn Oct. 14, 2013, New York City officials announced the completion of the world’s largest ultraviolet (UV) water treatment facility – the Catskill/Delaware UV Facility. For the project, AMERICAN SpiralWeld Pipe, a subsidiary of AMERICAN Cast Iron Pipe Company, supplied more than 5,700 feet of 144-inch diameter pipe
Read MoreThe $8.5 million pipe installation is part of a $105 million program that will eventually entail a large pump station at the low point of one of the city’s drainage canal systems. The pump station will be used to pump flood water, when necessary, through triple-barrel 84-inch steel pipe line over the levee and into the Mississippi River. The Harahan work was particularly difficult because of serious safety issues, groundwater and poor soil.
Read MoreAMERICAN spiral-welded steel pipe for mega projects in New York includes more than a mile of 144-diameter product used in what will be the largest ultraviolet disinfection waterworks facility in the world.
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