Case Studies
Minimizing Costs and Timelines for Pipe Repair
February 2, 2021
Irrigation district addresses leaking seals with wraparound coupling
HYMAX GRIP SwivelJoint case study AZ
December 12, 2020
HYMAX sales manager Stan Pachorek interviews Operations Mgr. Don Bohiler from Prescott Valley, AZ, about using the Swiveljoint
Creating a Customized Piping Solution in Queen Creek
February 2, 2020
When custom pipes required custom repairs, a specially made expansion joint solved a utility's aging infrastructure problem...
Maintaining irrigation repairs at Hanging Rock Golf Club
July 7, 2019
Located at the base of Fort Lewis Mountain near Roanoke, Va., Hanging Rock Golf Club offers views of sweeping mountain vistas that have earned it national accolades. Superintendent Brian DeWeese is always looking to ensure the 18-hole public course lives up to its reputation, which, to a large extent, means ensuring the course is consistently watered...
HYMAX 2 CASE STUDY: SOUTH CAROLINA
December 31, 2018
Mark Edwards is the repair supervisor for Grand Strand Sewer & Water Authority, a utility that serves approximately 90,000 customers in Horry, Marion, and Georgetown counties in South Carolina and Columbus county in North Carolina...
Myrtle Beach – 45-degree HYMAX Grip Elbow connects a fire hydrant to a water main.
November 11, 2018
Instead of trying to install a mechanical joint that could not be easily adjusted, a 45-degree HYMAX Grip Elbow offered the flexibility to connect a fire hydrant to a water main in Myrtle Beach.
CASE STUDY: HYMAX VERSA Repairs Water Pipe in Central Weld County Water District, Colorado
November 11, 2018
Stan Linker is the district manager for the Central Weld County Water District. It provides water service for approximately 50,000 in an area about 50 miles northeast of Denver covering 250 square miles. The water infrastructure contains 500 miles of pipe measuring 2 to 42 inches in diameter...
HYMAX LARGE DIAMETER (HLD) accommodates oval pipe – East Greenbush, N.Y.
May 27, 2018
HYMAX Large-diameter HLD couplings can accommodate different sizes of pipe and were especially helpful in East Greenbush, N.Y., where the pipes were not perfectly round. This case study appeared in Water & Waste Digest - May 2018
HYMAX COUPLING – San Francisco bay area (SFWPS)
November 6, 2017
Drinking water service in the SF bay area was disrupted when underground repairs on subway tunnels collapsed a road, damaging a 100 year old main pipe. The repair team chose the 12” HYMAX coupling because it allowed the team to work efficiently, repairing the mains supply and the street, with minimal costs. The HYMAX coupling provided three major benefits for SFWPS...
HYMAX Grip Swiveljoint – Myrtle Beach, S.C.
July 2, 2017
The city of Myrtle Beach, S.C., (approx. 27,000) is a beach resort, and this number increases during the summer.
Dean Roughton has been working for the city’s public works for 15 years and currently serves as a crew supervisor responsible for water pipe repairs.
The city wanted to install a 12"-by-6" tapping sleeve with a new valve and to replace a section of 6" asbestos-cement pipe with the new 6" C-900 PVC...
4″ HYMAX VERSA – Cave Creek, Arizona
January 2, 2016
The Water and Wastewater Department for the town of Cave Creek, Ariz., serves 5,004 customers in a community just north of Phoenix.
Water Superintendent Dennis Charles has worked for the town of Cave Creek since 2007. He and his team provide 24-hour support for repairs.
A collar connecting two classes of asbestos cement (AC) pipe of different diameters cracked and started to leak...
HYMAX Coupling: Haines City, FL
December 23, 2015
A cable company bore into the ground within a residential area in Haines City, and hit a 10-inch gravity sewer pipe causing it to break. When Haines City utility foreman James Coker and his team arrived, they started by contracting out the excavation of the pipe which was 12 feet deep. The break was significant enough that the damaged pipe had to be cut out and replaced with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe joined to the clay pipe with couplings at each end...
Hymax Large Diameter – Racine, Wis.
December 2, 2015
Maintenance was required oמ three isolation water valves that controlled three mains within the main pit. Racine Water Utility installed two 30-inch HYMAX HLD couplings to connect each end of the ductile iron replacement pipe (32" OD) to cast iron pipes (32.74 OD) on either side.ץץ