Water and Wastewater Engineering Information
The documents below will help you engineer polyethylene pipe for water and wastewater applications. Plastic pipes are not more difficult to engineer than metallic pipes once their basic material behavior is understood. HDPE's lighter weight, lower modulus values and flexibility offer capabilities not possible with metallic pipes.
Size, Dimensions and Pressure Rating Charts
PP152-4710 DriscoPlex® 4100 IPS (PE4710)
PP152-4710 DriscoPlex® 4100 IPS (PE4710) Spanish
PP153-4710 DriscoPlex® 4000 DIPS (PE4710)
Data Sheets
PP101 Water, Wastewater, Industrial
PP102 Light Gray Pipe for Interior Inspection
PP110 Ultra-Line® Water Service and Tubing Lines
Model Specifications
PP507 Potable Water Distribution and Transmission
PP508 Sanitary Sewer Force Mains
PP509 Gravity Flow Sanitary Sewer
PP512 Striped Piping for Treated/Reclaimed Water
PP522 Water Service Pipe and Tubing
Plastic Pipe InstituteSoftware
In promoting the use of polyethylene pipe in various applications, the Plastic Pipe Institute (PPI) provides the following software as an aid to the preliminary calculation and design of PE piping systems.
S-1 (2011) PPI BoreAid™ (Horizontal Directional Drilling Calculator)
S-2 (2011) PPI Calculator (HDPE Design and Installation Calculator)
Plastic Pipe Institute Handbook
The Plastics Pipe Institute® Handbook of Polyethylene Pipe is a comprehensive guide to the use of smoothwall HDPE pipe and its applications. The handbook is available in PDF format at www.plasticpipe.org. For convenience, we have secured permission from PPI to activate hyperlinks to individual chapters.
Plastic Pipe Institute Field Manual for Municipal Water Applications
The Plastic Pipe Institute recently introduced a Field Manual for Municipal Water Applications covering both AWWA C901 Water Service Pipe and Tubing, and AWWA C906 Water Distribution and Transmission Piping. The field manual offers practical information on the installation of HDPE pipe into a modern water system. Click here to view the manual.
Field Handbook
This Field Handbook contains selected information that has been excerpted and summarized from several Performance Pipe publications including the Performance Pipe Engineering Manual, technical notes, various product and application bulletins, recommended heat fusion procedures and other publications. This handbook is intended only as a quick reference aid.