2.7 Kilometer Pipe Line In 14 Days, No way says Pipeliner

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Prince George, B.C. - Steve Thorlakson of Sureus Pipelines Inc says if  the City of Prince George thinks it can get a pipeline of 2.7 kilometers installed from the pulp mill to three locations on the Nechako River in 14 days, ‘they haven’t talked to a pipe liner”.

The City proposes to build a pipeline that would bring 500 gallons a minute of 20 degree water from the pulp mill at to three points on the Nechako. Engineers have suggested that the warm water will melt the ice and make a path through the ice jam, thereby stopping the flooding.

Thorlakson says it will cost $60 dollars a meter, plus the cost of materials for the pipe line, a bit more if a 6 inch line is used, and a further $30 dollars a meter if the pipe is to be insulated.

He feels that the pipe would not need to be insulated if it is buried below the frost line, but then there will be a loss of heat of the water.

Sureus Pipelines are at present involved in projects on the Sea to Sky Highway (25,400 meters)

A Petro Canada project, (10,000 meters) and the City of Edmonton (900 meters). The company has an archive of dozens of jobs, many in excess of 26,000 meters of pipeline.

Thorlakson says the project they are proposing can not come in on the budgeted amount of $400,000 dollars. "I just don’t believe they can come anywhere near that price to do that project", as for the timing,  Thorlakson says  two weeks is  too tight to allow for the  ordering and supplying of materials and construction.  

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