Sewer Inspection
Large-Scale University

To promote economic growth in the biomedical research field, the university worked with the town to develop a 100 acre site owned by the university for biomedical research. The town rezoned the area and approved the development plans; however, concerns over sewer capacity were limiting the growth potential. The town and the university pursued a state grant to evaluate the sewer capacity issues and hired CAPACCIO as its engineer to lead this effort.

CAPACCIO reviewed existing documents and worked with the town’s sewer department to understand the issues related to the sewer system in the north Grafton area. The Axtell Brook interceptor was identified as a problem area where beaver populations and recent development could be contributing to unwanted inflow to the sewer system, which in turn could be taking away from the capacity available for development. CAPACCIO prepared a scope of work to conduct an intensive inflow/infiltration study to be included in the grant request, which was approved by the state. The on-going I/I study has identified several structural repairs to the interceptor that have significantly reduced I/I thereby creating available capacity for future development.

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