Special Board of Aldermen 10-27-2020 Page 7
Alderman Schmidt
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | just would like to ask if we could get copies of this please, your presentation.
Could you include a description of the acronyms that you are using.
Vice President O’Brien
And Director Fauteux is saying yes and | think copies ...
Alderman Schmidt
Thank you.
Vice President O’Brien
Any other questions by members of the Board? Seeing none, Director Fauteux, being your liaison and at
one of the Public Works Meetings, explain how the lining of the pipe is actually saving us a lot of money as
compared to digging that type of pipe up and replacing that particular piece of infrastructure and it’s a good
way to go to the taxpayers. Can you explain that please?
Director Fauteux
| absolutely can but | have somebody on this call that can do that even better, our City Engineer Dan
Hudson. So | will let him but that is a very good point and that is part of our CMOM plan as well, Alderman
O’Brien. So, Dan would you like to...
Dan Hudson, City Engineer
Sure I’d be happy to. It was explained pretty well but we are doing a pretty extensive program right now.
We are video inspecting pipes, some of these sewer pipes are 100 years old or more. Some of them
haven't been looked at at maybe the whole time or at least a long time. As part of the inspection we are
cleaning them as we do that so that gets us back capacity in our system, removing sediment and different
things. But the thing that we are trying to do is catch pipes before they fall into a more costly repair
category. If we can find a pipe and put a liner inside of it and repair it, to address cracking or whatever
issues it has, that’s about 10 to 20 times cheaper than having to dig that pipe up and do a full replacement.
And, of course, digging up the sewer mains, some of them are 20 feet deep, that’s a very disruptive
process and impacts a lot of people and utilities and things. So we find that it’s a great value in what we
are doing with this program, we are doing the CCTV and as much as possible, doing the lining.
Vice President O’Brien
Thank you, Mr. Hudson. And can the Clerk record that we are now joined by Alderman Dowd at the proper
time, please? Thank you. Any other questions by members of the Board? Seeing none, | thank you Mr.
Ayotte for your facts and your charts and your presentation. Director Fauteux, as always, good to see you
and thank you as well for your presentation with your team and everything. Seeing no more questions, |
will turn to Alderman Schmidt for the proper motion to adjourn by roll call. Alderman Schmidt, please?
