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How Much Orangeburg Still In The Ground?

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Good Question. Glad you asked. As we all know it all must be replaced or relined. Orangeburg pipe is made up of wood pulp that has been pitch pressed. The name comes from Orangeburg, NY, where you guessed it...it was manufactured. Trenchless sewer relining plumbers that do residential see this quite often, all the way from Los Angeles, CA to Columbia, SC. It was a main stay from 1860's to all the way to the 1970's. That's over 100 years of orangeburg pipe being laid in to the ground. Do you know what we are going to do? We are going to reline or burst all of it...every single last foot of it.

Orangeburg pipe usually has a life expectancy of 10 - 50 years and is no longer accepted this tells me we are going to busy for for a long time to come. Whether your preferred method is trenchless sewer pipe relining or trenchless sewer pipe bursting all of the orangeburg pipe nationwide will eventually be replaced.

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