Subcommittee F17.26 on Olefin Based Pipe, part of ASTM International Committee F17 on Plastic Piping Systems, is currently working on a large, comprehensive program to provide the engineering and specifying community with the appropriate tools to design, specify and size high density polyethylene water quality units. All interested parties are welcome to join in the activities of Subcommittee F17.26.

Water quality units are used to remove sediments and some suspended chemicals from storm drainage runoffs. “Removal of contaminants upstream helps to improve the water quality in our natural waterways,” says Kurdziel. “These upstream treatment facilities are increasingly becoming an integral component of the storm drainage system.”

“No manufacturing or structural design standard exists for water quality units composed of corrugated HDPE pipe sections,” says John Kurdziel, director of technical services, Advanced Drainage Systems, and F17 member.  Part of the subcommittee’s current program is the development of a proposed new standard, WK18469, Specification for Corrugated High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) Water Quality Units. Kurdziel says that the proposed new standard could be used by the many municipalities that already require pretreatment of runoff.

For further technical information, contact John Kurdziel, Advanced Drainage Systems, Hilliard, Ohio (phone: 614/658-0211; john.kurdziel@ads-pipe.com). Committee F17 meets Nov. 17-20 at the November committee week in Miami Beach, Fla. For membership or meeting information, contact Robert Morgan, Technical Committee Operations, ASTM International (phone: 610/832-9732; rmorgan@astm.org).

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