Progress Photos

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE THROUGHOUT THIS CONSTRUCTION PROJECT!

UPDATE 4/7/08

The work on the North Coast Interceptor reconstruction is complete.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact
David Shissler at 497-0378.

Project Overview

The North Coast Interceptor is a large pipeline transporting over 2 million gallons of wastewater from the City daily.  Approximately 1000' of the North Coast Interceptor will be realigned, replaced, or rehabilitated in this project.  This project will necessitate access restrictions from the Coast Highway to side streets in the vicinity of Nyes Place.

This project has presented many unique challenges.  The solution to go over the Victoria Drive underpass bridge presented a significant cost savings while eliminating all means of conventional construction to reconstruct the pipe.  A trifurcated manifold was constructed to split the NCI flow into three smaller pipes.  Two additional pipes were included in the construction to accommodate future needs to cross the bridge; to include a possible parallel pipeline.  The necessary bypass required careful examination of the old pipe since little was known about its condition.  Custom fittings were fabricated to safely cut the bypass valves into the old pipe.  The Nyes Place lift station had to be shut down and its flow redirected into other parts of the City’s gravity system. The pipe material used to replace the majority of the old line is newly developed plastic pipe known as fusible PVC.  This new pipe has the strength of a much thicker walled conventional pipe but is small enough that it allowed the contractor to slip the new line through the old pipe.  Large sections of the old pipe have been secured for testing.

View a Project Overview Map

View Public Information Boards #1 and #2 (.pdf files)

The City hired Dudek Associates as the design consultants to design and provide the construction oversight of this project. Bubalo Construction Inc. was the construction contractor.