Water and Wastewater
The American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2009 Report Card for America gave America’s water and wastewater systems a grade of D-. The EPA has stated that the two biggest problems with water and wastewater pipe are corrosion and leakage. Polyethylene pipe is the quickest way for America’s utilities to raise their performance grade. Why?
Polyethylene pipe offers:
- Lowest failure rates for water mains of all pipe materials.*
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- Resistance to galvanic corrosion.
- Heat fusion joints that provide continuous pipe. No gaskets to leak.
- Significantly greater flexibility than competitive plastic pipe.
- Toughness and impact resistance, including high resistance to RCP.
- Excellent flow characteristics.
- Low maintenance costs.
- Easy repairs with mechanical or fused joints.
View a list of municipal projects using Performance Pipe’s HDPE pipe.
Polyethylene pipe’s features make it easy to install, maintain, and repair. Polyethylene pipe has been used for water and wastewater in Europe and North America since the late 1950’s. Specify HDPE pipe and help raise America’s water and wastewater infrastructure grade.
Attention Distributors
Distributors can enter data in the Municipal Project Reference Form and Performance Pipe will post your project on the Municipal Project Reference List.
* Long Term Performance Prediction for PE pipes, AWWARF and CSIRO, Davis, Burn et al 2007
