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Abstract: Construction of Contract 2 for the twinning of the West Trunk sewer tunnel for the Region of Peel in the City of Mississauga consists of approximately 3,800m (12,500ft) of 3.0m (10ft) diameter trunk sanitary sewer. The new sewer is being constructed by tunneling using two EPB machines and installing precast concrete segments as the final liner. Two significant innovations are included in the...
Abstract: Tunnels constructed for the purpose of discharging waste water as well as forpreventing wet-weather overflows by intermediate storage are particularly exposed to internalcorrosion due to sulfuric acid attacks. The awareness of the internal corrosive environment has beenincreased by rising expectations regarding life span, which in turn led to higher...