DSS consigns documentation of many “irregularities” in Denver Wastewater Management Operations water quality code enforcement investigators practices.  Cover-up by WMD Capitol Projects engineers and WMD Operations director Reza Kazemian.  Low cost private pipe and tap connection protection and water pollution prevention sewer rehabilitation product being withheld from use by homeowners by WMD engineers.  WMD’s application of sewer rehabilitation causes private pipes to break….WMD application of sewer rehab doesn’t stop groundwater contamination..NW Denver sewers neglected but Director Kazemian tells EPA all NW Denver sewers are sealed…video footage proof to the contrary…and more coming soon!!

 Sorry Denversewerscam follower’s, I meant to do a write up on my meeting with Councilman Garcia right away but there’s been a lot of sewer scam activity in NW Denver just in the past few weeks…Honestly I thought my investigation days had been concluded with my interview with Joe Barsoom… I had moved into phase II “making the news” known in the virtual world and Brick & Mortar world.

Yet as the stars would have it I was presented with opportunity to be present when WMD Operations Water Quality Control Code enforcement investigator was conducting a “code enforcement operation”…And just like at 45^th & King….The same agent scammed the homeowner in the same way!!!…..I caught him in the act and all on tape!!!!!!… That is… not from second hand information gained from video inspections and a news paper article…. but while it was happening….in the act and on tape.

I think now the News will hit the conventional media…Thanks for your efforts NW Denverites!!  You won’t see entrees by DSS for a few days…I’m going to talk to a lawyer and see if I can file a criminal complaint..but I’m going to be filling complaints..Believe you me.

ON May 26, 2009 @ 12:29 pm Jerry D Hustler (President and CEO of Perma Liner) sent the March 1^st 2009 DSS article: “Infrastructure Scam”…“Product kept off the Market”  to Travis Bohm, his West Coast Sales Business Development Manager.

The Infrastructure Scam article in question treats readers to the details of Insituforms (decade late and seemingly opportunistically timed)“patent infringement law suit” against a rival manufacture of Service Lateral CIPP. The defendants in the case are Cosmic S BV and its American distributor Amerik Supplies of Marietta Georgia. The product is called TOP HAT.

Only in America Folks read all about it!! 

Insituform a formally a Dutch company sets up a network of installation companies for its pipe lining product in the US. Within ten years one of the US affiliates from Missouri takes over the whole shooting match. Insituform becomes a Delaware corporation, sues another rival Dutch company with a distributorship in Georgia but in a Virginia court. That case will determine how much people in Denver Colorado must spend for the product that will protect their sewer pipes from Insituforms sewer main lining product!!!! Perma Liner positioned to cash in. The same type of thing happened in 1998 over lateral lining in Georgia but the case was tried in a California court. Denver Wastewater Management Department engineers being ridiculed by Denversewerscam for their shady deal with Insituform. Stimulus money lines contractor’s pockets Denver residents pay the bill. Insituform now hiring in Denver.

Come again? …Cosmic Service Lateral what? What’s a service lateral?  In-si-tufor- what? Protect what from what where in Georgia or Denver?   

Well: CIPP is Cure in Place Pipe and it’s a system more than a product. It’s quite possibly one of the most important inventions of the 20^th century. Its Service Lateral component completes the system. And the systems saves pipes and protects the environment when applied properly. And Insituform is the company that owns the rights to Eric Woods’ 1971 invention called CIPP.  Okaay you say…but why should I care about some law suit over a Top Hat?

 Well CIPP is a way to place a “new sewer pipe system” inside an “old and failing sewer pipe system” in the city sewer trench without digging it up. And America alone has about 800 thousand miles of failing sewer trench system. And an equal and perhaps greater amount of “Sewer Service Laterals….aka Homeowner’s sewer pipes. TOP HAT is a brand name for the lateral lining portion of the CIPP pipe lining system.

Insituforms Service Lateral liner requires the homeowner to have a clean out fixture located somewhere in the private sewer line otherwise CIPP liner can’t be installed. And beyond that Insituforms product costs $4500.00 at the Municipal Project price and raises all kinds of legal issues for the city to install. So though it’s been around for a long while many cities just haven’t been installing the lateral CIPP when they have rehabilitated the pipes buried in the sewer city sewer trench.In other words they’ve been just lining the sewer mains.

Because of the products price and the legal issues the product raises some cities prefer just not to mess with and thus cut themselves out of the loop. In other words they let the “retail market” solve the issues. The price and legal issues are hammered out between homeowner and CIPP lining company and they alone. The city is doesn’t get involved and the city prefers it that way. Heck some cities have municipal codes that already established that as a rule…Denver is one of them. The EPA doesn’t like the state of things because broken sewer pipes cause water contamination and that’s a danger to the public. So the EPA has been trying to get these cities involved solving all the issues in the interest of the public. On the other hand some cities feel they are just fine with things they way they are..and Denver is one of them. While Insituform would make more money and our environment would be better off as well if they took a more active role in resolving these issues. (Insiforms moto after all is: “Clean Water for the World)..Insituform really hasn’t.

To tell the truth Insituform hasn’t been all that unhappy about this arrangement. Firstly they work for the city, and even though the CIPP system needs its Lateral component in order to work properly. It’s the city’s problem if they don’t want it. The retail market offers Insituform a higher price anyway. Though Insituform has been missing out of on a lot of revenue from “municipal lining of laterals”, they’ve been able to make it up on the retail market.

But there’s a Big problem with that. While by allowing the issues with CIPP lateral to be resolved on the retail market solve certain problems (for the city) it creates others that are possibly far worse. Without it’s lateral lining component the CIPP main liner causes groundwater infiltration to “migrate” to the joint that connects the private service pipe to the city sewer main. And also any roots that are growing in the area are routed to the tap as well. The combination of both causes that joint to fail and the private sewer service pipe along with it. Insituform sewer main lining products cause private property damage.

So the city could be held legally responsible for applying a product that damages private property…so might Insituform. Thus many cities have found  ways to get around the price and legal issues and install the CIPP lateral liner for the homeowner anyway. Some cities split the cost with the homeowner some just have them pay for it and sign property damage waivers…some cities just do ti for free..there are many solutions.  

Other cities instead just keep the issue between the homeowner and their plumber and allow plumbers to install CIPP Lateral liners on the private market…Denver is not one of them. And so for the past 35 years CIPP lateral lining has been done in one way or another in most US cities. Either in municipal projects here and there or by retail work one at a time..Denver is not one of those cities.

But since this damage doesn’t happen right away some cities (Denver) have been keeping mum about it. This is because depending on what state of deterioration the sewer main trench is in, this joint could last several more years. No one but city engineers and Insituform are the wiser when the inevitable eventually does happen. Denver’s municipal code makes the lower lateral pipes the homeowner’s problem so if the joint does break whatever the cause Denver’s municipal code provides the perfect cover.

But If someone were to discover little know facts about CIPP the City could lose a lot of money in an “inverse condemnation” law suit. Like that of Palo Alto California a few years back. Guess what someone did discover WMD’s & Insituforms secrets…its me.  That’s what I’ve been working on the past three years and writing about for several months:

That Palo Alto case changed the way many cities in California did sewer rehabilitation work. From then on the municipal work included CIPP lateral liners. So CIPP manufactures and installers made out…in a sense and in California. But in Denver no one even knew that the WMD  was rehabilitating sewers and had been since the 70’s. the only people who knew were WMD engineers, Insituform and some elected officials. But elected officials didn’t know the secrets the “No Dig” methods WMD engineers were using. WMD had been using the lower cost method of applying chemical Joint sealing compounds to sewer mains in the early stages of failure. And WMD would only have Insituform apply CIPP in sewer mains pipes and in trenches that were too far gone for joint compound to work anymore. In other words WMD was using CIPP in trenches that needed to be excavated and replaced and as a lower cost alternative to excavation and replacement. So said their official press release and that’s all their press release said about CIPP….Oh they did mention that CIPP “reduced water treatment costs” as well ,and, that WMD was keeping homeowners sewer bill’s lower by using it. Other than those bits of information CIPP and sewer rehab in general was a mystery in Denver. That  goes hand in hand with the fact that nobody in Denver really knows that the sewers are failing.

WMD would apply the joint compounds “in house” and hired Insituform to install the CIPP.  In any case, independently from the method “Joint Compound” or “CIPP” WMD would never apply this technology to the lower lateral service pipes. The pretence for this was of course: Denver’s Municipal Code.  According to code the lower lateral pipes belonged to the homeowner. WMD couldn’t legally spend city money on privately owned pipes…could they! Things like that. You could just imagine the arguments that came up as WMD engineers struggled over the issue internally.  

But though the partial application would cause damage to private pipes and would have given them good reason to use their “engineer’s discretionary powers” to “engineer” a way around this legal hick up as other cities had…. Though they had the authority and duty as directors of a public utility to do so.. What they did instead was just shut up about it. So when complaints came in to city council from homeowners whose taps had broken and about WMD forcing homeowners to pay for the repair WMD answers was: So sad to bad ..”Its the homeowners fault for not protecting their pipe”..”Its the law we can’t do anything about it”. So the implication was that the law needed to be changed and more money was to be given to WMD to take care of the problem (very unpopular subjects for politicians).

But out of the other side of their mouths WMD engineers were telling the EPA that Denver had fewer reported complaints about back up into the home than any city in the US!! And that all the sewers in a certain area had been inspected sealed and weren’t contributing to the high e.coli and fecal coli contamination levels in the watershed!! Which was miraculous!! Because through decades of study the EPA knew that the 1^st generation sewers were causing 100% of groundwater contamination problems and this contamination had been finding its way up to surface waters. This one particular area NW Denver was having a lot of trouble.. But If the EPA was overmanned and overfunded I wouldn’t be writing this article.

So a very strange decade’s long relationship was created between Insituform and WMD engineers…one of “I won’t tell if you don’t tell”. A secret keeping relationship akin to that of the Sicilian Mob’s rule of “Omerta” A relationship that was legally and financially beneficial to everyone concerned except the Denver Homeowners.

Yet there was another even deeper darker secret that WMD engineers weren’t telling anyone: While “for legal reasons” WMD wouldn’t apply the no dig technology that protects the homeowners pipes from the ravages of systemic failure of the city trench.. unlike other cities WMD wouldn’t let private plumbers/homeowners use CIPP to protect their private lines! This even though this technology was available and in use all over the country and even though Denver homeowner were required by Denver’s municipal code “to protect the private pipe and fixtures even those buried in the municipal trench”!!  In other words: Even though WMD was using the technology themselves. Even though the homeowner needed it..were required by law to protect the private pipes and CIPP was the only way to do it fulfill that obligation..and WMD had the authority to allow it use ..WMD didn’t allow it to be used!!

So what does this have to do with Perma Liner …and its CEO sending a Denversewerscam article about a patent infringement law suit to his West Coast Business Development Manager?

WELL..

See a need fill a need someone saw and finally filled the gap in the rehab market that wasn’t being covered.  Cosmic S B.V. (Netherlands ) brought to the US market a lower lateral lining product TOP Hat(circa 1990) that installed fully from the sewer main and cost about $1200.00. This resolved the issues the Insituform product created price wise and clean out fixture wise. It was as easier to install and lower cost product. The only problem was that Cosmic S and TOP HAT weren’t licensed by Insituform. That wasn’t a problem for Cosmic and for the American market but it was a big problem for Insituform….

You see ever since Insituform. B.V. (Netherlands) brought CIPP to the US in 1975 they’ve been struggling with US antitrust (monopoly) law. Monopolies in the US are illegal and Insituforms patents gave them a monopoly.  So since 1975 (somewhat like how the Feds forced Microsoft to do with EarthLink in 1995) Insituform had to licenses US competitors to use its CIPP technology. Worse yet for Insituform it’s US patents would begin to expire in 20 years. All in accordance with US law to create fair competition and open market.

By 1998 most all of Insituforms original patents had expired. This allowed other companies like Perma Liner and LMK Cosmic to develop their own companies and open the market to greater competition. But because of the “price issue” and the “legal issues” over lateral lining the bulk of the work being done in the US was municipal work on sewer mains. And so the bulk of the competition was in that market on the municipal sewer main market. The lateral lining market was left largely unexploited (A condition that would not last very long). As more and more private lines would fail in older city sewer trenches the market would demand a remedy.  

In 1992 one of Insituforms BV licensed installers “Insituform Mid America” (founded by Bob Affholder & Jerry Kalishman in 1982) became wealthy enough and powerful enough to buy out/force out all other US installers. Mid America formed a collation and purchase the exclusive worldwide rights to CIPP from Insituform BV.

Presto Change-O: Insituform BV a European company becomes Insituform Technologies an American Company. Bob Affholder’s partner Jerry Kalishman is a very savvy Chesterfield Missouri attorney.So what I call Insituforms “patent wars begin.” Not only is Kalishman a savvy lawyer he’s a savvy business man and gains the controlling share of Insituform Technologies the company.

Not only does Kalishman have control of the company he has a son Tom who is just as savvy as he is. Tom helps his dad create institutions like the Trenchless Technology Center (TCC)at the University of Louisiana(circa 1992). There they get government assistance to “develop the technology” and perhaps more importantly to develop engineers in the industry. There Insituform as well as other CIPP companies donate money for scholarships to create more engineers in the industry. Tom creates a lesser known program called the EM3. It’s a business school program for engineering graduate students that promises placement in key positions in the industry throughout the world. Then together with other CIPP players they create the sales promotion branch of the industry (circa 1997) the North American Society for Trenchless Technology. The NASTT starts sales promotion conventions to which they invite customers..like wastewater engineers and pipe laying contractors who are wanting to go trenchless. It’s a 22 trillion dollar industry.

Then of course since we’re dealing with municipal contracts and product that ultimately are used by the public these products have to be tested and meet a national standard just like any other construction product. The one entity that governs sewer pipes and plumbing as well as others is the American Society of Testing Materials.  The ASTM is made up of manufactures engineers and engineers from the private sector like university scholars (TCC) and public utility wastewater engineers. So Insituform and a group of other manufactures founded the ASTM on trenchless methods of sewer rehabilitation.

Perhaps the most interesting of Insituforms patent wars was the one between them and American Pipe & Plastic in Northern California. This war spilled over onto the ASTM subcommittee on lateral rehabilitation products. Insituform claimed that AP&P’s Easy Liner lateral lining product infringed on Insituforms Nu Pipe product.  At the same time the ASTM was denying AP&P’s Easy liner its stamp of approval. The complaint went out from Graner Co (AP&P licensee) who had penetrated Insiforms Mid Americas market in Florida & Georgia. The Graners complaint was that there was “no material or scientific reason” that the ASTM should deny approval. The panel was being accused of bias. The patent suit ended up with proving that Easy Liner was identical to Nu Pipe in every way. The California Court put a ban on the sale of the product in the US and ordered AP&P to pay damages.  The damages were settled out of court eventually. The court case actually proved that the ASTM had held up Easy Liners approval for “no material or scientific reason” as it EasyLiner was identical to Insituforms NuPipe. After the law suit was won Easy liner was banned from sale and the settlement made the ASTM incident mute.

Above this all reign’s Insituform as the number one US CIPP manufactured and installation company. To render an idea of its size relative to the market; Insituform declares 500 million in revenues and employ’s +/- 1100 people. Admittedly relatively small for such a big market but they are the largest and Insituform is evidently and extremely powerful company. The market will grow hand in hand as more sewers fail. But there market is finite as about 50% of sewer in the US are made of VCP pipe prone to failure. The 1972 clean water act changed the way sewers are built. Sewers are now made of PVC and don’t have any joints. So Insituform has to make hay while the sun is shining and they do. 80% of their revenue comes from installation (not manufacturing or licensing) of CIPP.

However, right now at this moment, approximately 10% of city sewer trenches are at or over 100 years old.  Denver for example has 200 miles of these 1^st generation sewer mains. And Denver is one of the 9 largest cities in the US who in 1972 the EPA declared a “Sanitary Sewer Outflow Community” just because of its outdated and leaking sewer system. Why is the EPA involved? Well because failing sewers contaminate water and create a health hazard for humans. By 2012 many more Insituforms patents will expire (they just happen to be lateral lining patents). Is this coming together for you now?

Insituform legal move seems to have been spurred by a once in a life time “planetary alignment” in the yet to be fully charted universe of the US sewer rehabilitation industry. This alignment is as follows:

·         Reynolds Inliner July 2007 purchase of American Water Services Underground Infrastructure Group. This purchase made Reynolds the next largest CIPP rehab company in the Nation second only to Insituform.

·          And Reynolds December 2007 purchase of Denver’s Tierdael Construction Company (long time municipal projects contractor). The president of Tierdael is the former president of Nation Association of Sewer Service Companies NASSCO

Reynolds a very aggressive competitor in the east US market was the inventor of the industry unprecedented performance based contract in 2002,and, perhaps Cosmic S/TOP HAT’s number one customer.

·         A Jan 2008 EPA publication (who arrival was well telegraphed for about a decade) that essentially stated “no wastewater utilities Operation & Maintenance/ sewer rehabilitation program can be effective without service lateral rehabilitation”.

Denver has been Insituform exclusive territory since the mid 80’s when Affholder and Kalishman set up shop in Denver (dba Insituform Rockies/ Plains a fully owned affiliate of their Insituform Mid America company). Reynolds move into Denver threatened to upset the apple cart in the municipal sewer rehab market as well as the retail lateral lining market.

Insituforms law suit proves that in 2006 Insituform approached Cosmic/America offering them a “Lateral Lining Licensing Opportunity.”  In short Insituform wanted Cosmic pay Insituform $200 (royalties) for every TOP HAT liner that had been installed in the US since 1990 and for every TOP Hat liner that would ever be installed in the US. Cosmic said no. Insituform sued and asked that TOP HAT be barred from sale in the US.

What the court documents don’t disclose is that in July 2007 Insituform came to a Lateral Lining Licensing  agreement with Perma Liner ..That information was disclosed in trenchless technology media not the court documents. Coincidently the Lateral Licensing agreement came at the same time Reynolds purchased UIG…isn’t that interesting?

I sure hope the judge sitting over the case..in whatever court is been transferred too now…or the FBI & Department of Justice is reading this articles…

Here’s a strange fact: in 2002 Insituform used TOP HAT in San Diego California not Perma Liners products. San Diego forced Insituform to use TOP Hat because of its lower cost. Why did Insituform wait to sue Cosmic??

Here’s another strange fact: Though Insituform claims to have the patents rights over Cosmic S Top Hat product …thought they’ve been in business since 1975…have their own R&D center..have founded and funded the Trenchless Technology Center and got paid by the federal Government to develop their technology in 1992(CARP)…Insituform never marketed these lower cost and easier to install lower later liners that they now lay claim over!!

Now (2005) Bob Affholder and Tom Kalishman have broken off from Insituform (Jerry Died in 2005 in the middle of a battle between him and Insituform board of directors over control of the company), and have formed a company called SAK construction LLC (Shaw, Affholder, Kalishman construction ) Though the nation’s second largest CIPP player (Reynolds) has come to Denver this little start-up company has just become WMD engineers only other CIPP contractor in 25 years.  The very same people who set up office in Denver 25 years ago …what a coincidence!!

Here’s another coincidence the place where Affholder & Kalishman set up office was in NW Denver less than a mile away from where Joe Barsoom WMD director of Engineering (1970-2005) &WMD OPS Director Reza Kazemian were conducting a sewer rehabilitation field test on NW Denver Sewers.

In 1984 Joe Barsoom WMD director of engineering founded the first ever ASTM committee on lateral rehabilitation. He’s been chairman of that committee ever since and is now the chairman over the entire ASTM on sewer rehabilitation.

In 1992 Barsoom became active at the Trenchless Technology Center (TCC) at the University of Louisiana and in 1998 became the chairman of its Industry Advisory Board and still is.

In 1998 from his position at as IAB Chairman Barsoom became one of the EPA’s 5 person Technical Advisory Committee which created surveys and conducted studies that led up to the EPA’s 2004 Sanitary Sewer Overflow Abatement guidance Manual and the Jan 2008 publication which all but mandated that laterals be rehabilitated…what a co- in- ci-dence!!  

Coincidentally In 2004 Reza Kazemian performs a foot by foot video inspection (SSES) of all the sewers in NW Denver and orders Insituform establishes a project to line 200 feet of sewer main around Rocky Mountain Lake. The project began in 2006 and will end in 2010. Insituform is lining 100 thousand feet and in 2007. Guess who got the contract to line the other part? SAK!. Affholder & Kalishman who started Insituform in NW Denver 25 years ago ended up in that very spot 25 years later with SAK…That’s like Cosmic dude.. Isn’t it weird how the big events in Barsoom’s career seem to parallel big events in Insituforms history?  Isn’t in weird how big events in the EPA work on sewer rehab have a relationship to what happens in the market..and how the EPA work is tied to this Barsoom guy… It’s Karma dude. The chairman of the ASTM committee on lateral lining when the Easy liner incident happed was Joe Barsoom and Joe is Chairman over the entire ASTM now..and TOP HAT is having its problems since it came to Denver isn’t that wild?

Beyond Affholder & Kalishman breaking off to form SAK LLC in 2005, Joe Barsoom retired that year as well. The day of his retirement he became Chairman of the Trenchless Technology Center (TCC) Municipal Users Forum.  The forum shares contractor’s bids and municipal engineers projects bid with members of the forum and is where WMD engineers get their pricing information for WMD projects..now isn’t that precious!!.

Insituforms corporate maneuvers have been legal. In same sense (at least in Denverswerscams oppion) of that guy from “Girls Gone Wild” fame and his “I just turned 18 barely legal” videos are legal. “They’re not minors  Judge” ..: “it’s not kiddy porn” ..”Look these girls are adult.. It says so right here on this paper the minors.. ooOPS I mean the adults signed.”

I don’t know if WMD engineers Barsoom & Kazemian’s secrets are legal…I don’t think they are. If they are illegal they are immoral. In any case WMD’s policies practices and programs couldn’t have worked out better for Insituform than if Insituform had created them itself.

In essence WMD has had Insituform line our sewer mains with a product (CIPP) that makes our taps fail. While WMD should protect or taps by having Insituform line them with CIPP they don’t..What they do instead is prohibit the homeowners use of CIPP..which prohibits the homeowner from protecting their taps. So this goes on for 25 years of so without no one knowing about it. Ten years or so ago a cheaper and easier to install product come on to the US market Joe Barsoom Knows about it but doesn’t allow it in Denver because WMD doesn’t apply lateral CIPP and doesn’t allow Denver homeowners to either. But in 2007 when Reynolds is posed to introduced the cheapest product on the US market TOP HAT to Denver hook or crook.

Insituform (WMD exclusive contractor) sues the manufacture of TOP HAT for patent infringement; tying the product up in court ,and, at the same time Insituform comes to an agreement with Perma Liner over its lateral lining products. Reynolds counter sues.

So while homeowners taps are breaking at the rate of 500 to 700 per year..and the water contamination problem in NW Denver is getting increasingly worse, this Insituform company is playing its monopoly games..The product that we need to protect our property from Insituforms CIPP main liner is being tied up in court by Insituform and kept off the retail market by WMD…but Insituform now has lined up the more expensive Perma liner for us..How nice of them to do that for us!! If Cosmic looses the suit Top Hat will be banned from sale in the US…what then?

Insituform is innocent until proven guilty and so are WMD engineers. And so was the guy from “I just turned 18 barely legal” fame.. Until someone actually challenged him by producing one his films and a birth certificate proving one of the girls that was bare on film was not legal..sending the guy to jail. Nobody even challenges Insituform they’re just to powerful.

Joe Barsoom recently appeared on Denversewerscam’s web site during an interview to have me correct some errs in my “Joe Barsoom career trivia”. I took advantage of the occasion to have him answer some very precise questions about WMD’s engineers and Insituform secrets.. He skipped around them questions and ultimately refused to answer.

Of course prior to that on July 8, 2009 @ 7:35 am a Joe Blow (joeblow@gmail.com) emailed the same articles to David Huntsinger (David.huntsinger.ci.c.us.gov) a Denver Public Works engineer..I can’t say that this Joe Blow was instead Joe Barsoom. But I’ve now heard from Joe Barsoom. Not from Joe Blow… Huntsinger…Reza Kazemian…Affholder, Kalishman, Insituform, SAK, Perma liner or Reynolds.

I have spoken to Cosmic S… and several other CIPP installation companies in the US. I’m just waiting for certain developments to write about that.

We live in the age of information technology guys! Key words to remember “cut and paste then email”.. Like I said guys you can chime in any time you want…we’d love to hear from you. I’m meeting with some Denver City Council …soon and hope to get some things resolved.

October 29th 2009

Birmingham Alabama Mayor Larry Langford

Convicted on all 60 Counts against him in Federal corruption trial

HOW WATER QUALITY ISSUES IN A BIRMINGHAM RIVER LED TO THE UNCOVERING OF THE BIGGEST SEWERSCAM IN US HISTORY

23 convicted: Insituform Joint Venture partner, wastewater engineers, inspectors, city council members and ultimately the mayor ….in the biggest bid rigging and bribery scam in US history… INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING..HUNDRES OF THOUSANDS OF INSITUFORM DOCUMENTS BEING EXAMINED …WHAT ARE THE TIES TO DENVER PUBLIC WORKS WASTE WATER MANAGMENT ?

It all was about the sewers……

ARTILCE COMMING SOON

Pic courtesy ABC news

Barsoom also former Director of Engineering of Denver Wastewater Management says the failure of Denver’s 1^st generation VCP sewer pipe joints is not the systemic failure phenomenon that has been plaguing every older neighborhood in the US for the past 50 years. Barsoom indicates that the 500 to 700 tap replacements that occur each year in Denver are due to homeowners not cleaning roots from there taps…he indicates that the root intrusion breaking Denver homeowners tap connections is not due to roots migration and infiltrations migration from WMD’s sewer main sealing and CIPP lining operations..

Though the 1999 EPA Publication “Optimization of Collection System Maintenance Frequencies & System Performance” (by Black & Veatch with Barsoom as his IAB colleague Ahmad Habbibian participating as members of the EPA’s Technical Advising Committee) includes an inventory of 50 cities sewer systems. Even thought selection of cities and even the survey questions that was sent to those cities were created by Barsoom and 5 other members of the papers TAC; when asked to apply his decades long expertise in sewer rehab and specific knowledge of all the ailments in Denver’s systems and help the people of Denver with the sewer system failure….and the woes from bacterial contamination of area waters…. Barsoom instead became nothing less than evasive .

The TAC’s inventory reveals that just under 50% of Denver’s sewer system is VCP multi jointed pipe, and  75% of Denver systems is under groundwater level. But Barsoom wouldn’t even acknowledge his long time colleagues (WMD Ops directors Reza Kazemian) Sept.2002 affirmation that the major source of bacterial contamination occurring in Denver is the additional water entering into the Denver’s sewer mains (infiltration which is groundwater contamination).  

Though his and Kazemian’s 1999 report on sewer sealing in NW Denver sewers confirms infiltration migration and root intrusion migration due to WMD sewer rehab operations Barsoom denies the existence their existence.

In the EPA’s SSO Abatement Guidance manual ‘s WMD Case study interview (conducted by Ahmad Habbibian), Kazemian states that while this “infiltration/additional water” in the system is not creating hydraulic capacity problem (outflows) the major source of additional water in the system is groundwater infiltration.  WMD had completed the disconnection of storm sewers from the combined sanitary sewer collection system in 1984. In fact to address to issue of the Metro Denver’s Treatment plant seasonal overflows contamination of section 15 of the S Platte River downstream of the plant……… 

That information combined with the poor results  indicated in Barsoom  & Kazemian  1999 report on the “Cesareo & Field” [1975] field test of WMD’s joint sealing program (conducted on 4 NW Denver sewer mains) proves that the major source of contamination in section 14 of the SPR is “infiltration” and  pipe failure is WMD’s sewer mains. (Section 14 of the SPR is commonly known as NW Denver). In other words the very same “Infiltration” which is proven in lab and field test alike to cause the entire trench system soil to erode and colapse pipes ..is the major source of contamination in the watershed as well….

………Adding to confusion of the local representative that Denversewerscam publisher had invited to

to be continued

In 1998 Portland’s Clean Water Service (that’s their equivalent to Denver’s WMD) fired their CIPP sewer rehabilitation contractors and started doing the work “in house”. CWS purchased a turn-key sewer rehabilitation operation from LMK Enterprises for $250,000.00 and started lining the Portland sewer mains and homeowner’s private line all the way up to the home. This operation proved to reduce city sewer maintenance cost, treatment cost for groundwater that was entering into the system, prevent breakage of the homeowners piping in the easement, and reduce bacterial clean-up cost so much that in 2002 CWS purchased another installation truck and started keeping city crews busy 24/7 in lining operations. The charge to homeowners…FREE.

In fact with the elimination of the CIPP installation contractors and their 70% market standard markup made this all possible.

In the EPA January 2004 publication The Sanitary Sewer Overflow Guidance Manual, the EPA held up Portland CWS as the nation’s gold standard for best practices and best methods of the required sewer rehabilitation. Sewer rehabilitation of this 1^st generation clay pipe sewer trenches in required by the EPA but WMD instead has refused to follow those recommendations. 

To give you an idea what WMD’s current program may cost Denver taxpayers there is the example of Nashville TN Overflow Abatement Program (OAP 1990-1999).Using contractors Nashville lined or replaced 125 miles of sewer main at the cost of 60 million dollars. However the project included the lining of 10,000 private laterals. The use of multiple contractors (not just one like WMD) brought the cost of lining the lower lateral to the end of the public easement (the alley) to just $2200.00.

That’s a lot less expensive than a $5,000 tap replacement and more ecologically sound as it prevents years of groundwater contamination. While CIPP lateral lining product are available in the Denver metro area and have been for several years WMD won’t allow the homeowner to apply them to the lower lateral and protect the tap connection joint. That’s just one of the many quirky little secrets WMD keeps. Conversely while CIPP lateral lining is required to complete the CIPP system WMD doesn’t install it for the homeowner, which causes the problems to shift to the private tap connection and essentially causes or allows the homeowners pipe connection to break.

Most NW Denverites have written the problem off as the “city sewer system is just old” and shun the thought because in the back of their minds they know it going to cost a lot of money. “There’s nothing we can do about it” and “if complain the city will just raise our taxes”. One resident who I spoke too just recently was very unappreciative of me handing out flyers on her block. Like many in the area she had put up her house for sale and didn’t want the negative publicity. Of course the negative feedback I received was from people who haven’t been hit by the “tap failure trap” …yet…or who are leaving. But I’ll bet that no sooner than they have a look at the video of the sewer main (which WMD shows no one) and see the precarious condition that the main and their tap is their minds will change. That’s why, (on my web site) I’ve included instructions on how to get WMD’ sewer main inspections and their ‘collapse risk assessment” report. It only cost $30.00!!

Whether they are leaving the neighborhood or not; the majority of them I’ve spoken with don’t realize they have no choice. That choice has been removed from them by WMD. This 50 to 70 million dollar sewer rehab project to rehab the 100+/- miles of sewer trenches in NW Denver is already under way. It is being imposed upon WMD

Unfortunately, because of public utilities wasteful spending, the Federal grant program the EPA created that would have paid for this all was canceled in 1990. The grant program was replaced by the CWSRF which essentially a loan program. The CWSRF was specifically designed to make WW utilities more responsible for their spending. That means whatever WMD spends and however they spend it WE GOT TO PAY THE MONEY BACK. In effect the Federal government is loaning us our tax to WMD who then pays Insituform its 70% markup on work that actually doesn’t stop water contamination and causes our private taps to fail… So not only do the 500 to 700 homeowner’s caught in the tap trap get to pay 2.5 to 3.5 million a year for replacement everyone gets to pay the 50 to 70 million that WMD project will cost us back to federal government. While Portland instead has solved the problem ten years now and proved that their system pays for itself. Why do you think the EPA recommends it? WMD’s system lines the pockets of their CIPP contractor more than it lines our sewer mains!

In her July 2004 report to the Mayor on her audit of Denver Public Works , Amy Bergstedt (formerly) with the EPA Region 8 recommended that that Mayor Hickenlooper “not support”  the aldering (shaking) of Canadian Geese Eggs that was being secretly conducted a means to reduce the high e.coli and fecal coli bacteria levels in the NW Denver watershed.

Denversewerscam found the report : “Chapter Appendix C Water Quality Improvement in the South Platte River(SRP),Report to the Mayor Draft for internal Review only 24 June 2004” buried in deep down in the cities Water Quality Management Plan. http://www.denvergov.org/WMDWaterQuality/WaterQualityManagementPlan/WaterQualityManagementPlan15/tabid/396053/Default.aspx

Bergstedt told the Mayor instead to continue diligent monitoring, improvement and coordination efforts for the sanitary sewer system especially in NW Denver.. Bergstedt had reported that she had found so many things wrong in Public Works Wastewater Management Department that she didn’t have time enough to report them all and give in depth recommendations. She had only been given 20 days to do the complete the audit of WMD DEH and other city agencies involved with water quality control.

Bergstedt wrote that <<decreasing water quality in the SPR due to both storm water(feces from waterfowl) and sewer system infrastructure and that both long term and short term initiatives were necessary to adequately protect our water from becoming a source of human illness>>.

 The roughly 100 miles of 1^st generation sewer system trenches were officially outdated in the 50’s by federal anti sewage dumping legislation. The “pipe joints” in the multi jointed 1^st generations Clay Pipe sewer systems were literally designed in Horse & Buggy Days and only built to hold up under Horse & Buggy traffic loads on the surfaces above them. The joint opening and which allows groundwater to enter into the system be contaminated and raw sewerage to escape into the trench and enter into the eco system as well as undermining the pipe support soil which causes pipe to break got so bad that the Federal Government had to intervene again.  But the solution a method of applying joint patching compounds and sealing (by robotically controlled joint packing machines inserted inside exiting buried pipes) wasn’t put into production until 1963. However this method proved not to last and was difficult to apply. So about ten years later a method of inserting a new pipe (PVC like) inside the existing clay pipe system in the easement was invented to take the place of joint sealing.    

The geographic area between west of the Platte Lakewood Gulch and Clear Creek (aka Section 14 of the SPR) commonly known as NW Denver was rich in groundwater but very poor in surface water entering  into the neighborhood from the west. Though these leaky jointed sewers were already contaminating groundwater to the point that hundreds of private wells had to be sealed. And the trees that were just saplings when the sewer trenches were installed (1880’s- 1920’s) were already causing joint openings and sewer main blockage due to root growth (Tree roots seek the city trenches groundwater for relief from Denver’s desert like climate. [trees roots seek sewer joints the oxygen and “fertilizer” nourishment found beyond them in the sewer pipes]), The City & County of Denver decided to not to dig up and replace the failing system.

Though they were already falling short of their primary design purpose: That of being the city’s primary disease control device, at time the only place sewerage was being treated in Denver was in the S Platte river. That was by natural dilution. Most homes had already been hooked up to the municipal water system. Lower Downtown was beginning to suffer from urban blight and it didn’t matter much if groundwater was being contaminated because raw sewerage was being dumped into the river anyway.   

Post war building booms meant that the new homes in the neighborhood private sewer lines were attached to a system charged to capacity. By the time Denver Metro Sewerage Treatment Plant was built in the 50’s the “groundwater additional water’ (called Infiltration/ additional water’) entering through leaky jointed mains was causing system wide overflows. To relieve this problem WMD disconnected the storm sewers …to be continued

In the mean time read related articles at Denversewerscam.hypocrisy.com:

How to protect yourself from Denver Sewer Scammers get sewer mains inspection records it’s your federally protected right.

Insituform ripped off the citizens of Denver..see the invoices.

Joe Barsoom the Citizens of Denver Need your Help..read  DSS’s on line exchange with WMD’s Director of engineering now the most influential and powerful man in the Sewer rehabilitation industry. Notice how Barsoom avoids answering certain questions.

Birmingham’s sewer scam .read of largest bid rigging and bribery scandal in US history: Involving Insituform and the conviction of 23 of Birmingham’s wastewater utility engineers, inspectors, city council members and ultimately the mayor. Check the similarities between WMD’s and Birmingham’s sewer programs.

See the how Insituform kept lower cost easier to install lateral lining product off the US market and the patent infringement case between Insituform and Cosmic S.,LMK, Reynolds Inliner (new owner of) Denver’s Tierdale Construction Public Works municipal contractors.

In 1998 the EPA ordered Public Works Wastewater Management Department (WMD) to upgrade their technology and start creating a digital video diary of Denver’s Sewers. As well, they ordered them to adopt a national standard of sewer collapse risk assessment called the NASCO PACP. WMD created a system called MIMS and GIS. Which stores maintenance records, videos inspection, evaluations in digital format in a Geographic Information system ordered data bank.

Under increasing pressure by the EPA to make WMD take better care of our sewers, in early 2004 Public (WMD) did this Sanitary Evaluation Sewer Survey (SSES) of every foot of NW Denver system.  The videos are in high quality digital complete with the collapse evaluation of the sewer main.

WMD hasn’t told anyone about this..for the obvious reason that they don’t want you to know what going on in the main. The want you to believe that the reason you tap has broken is your not taking care of the pipe so they can get you to pay for it. Acctually the EPA ordered WMD to create a web site explaining all of the sources of bacterial contamination water..the EPA doesn’t enforce sewer maintenance the enforce the Clean Water Act. However because the 1^st generation VCP sewers contribute to bacterial contamination of ground and surface waters the  EPA has some say so in how sewers are to be maintained and what needs be done.  The EPA can’t possibly monitor all the sewers in the US and cant even keep up with delinquent wastewater utilities like WMD..That’s the reason for the rule about creating a public information web site on ALL sources of contamination. So that citizens can help the EPA keep an eye on WMD. But since this would include the sewer and WMD doesn’t want anyone to know just how bad our sewers mains are …what WMD tells everyone instead is to get a video inspection of their own private sewers. This cost a minimum of $99.00 and is done usually by a plumber’s Bird dog… That means a guy that gets paid a commission to bird dog out pigeons to be plucked…

What WMD doesn’t tell you is that the video inspection and report covering up to 200 feet (manhole to manhole) of sewer main and up to 10 private taps only cost $30.00 per copy.

And that it your federally protected right to have it and for them to give it to you within 3 days.

So by obtaining this video and reports for just $30.00 many homeowners can see the sewers mains failing and if it causing the taps to break and have a professional engineers evaluation of it..which is a legal document…No plumbers bird dog..not even a master plumber can give you an evaluation that is as binding as an engineers…and even master plumbers aren’t allowed to video inspect sewer mains ..get it?

So the video inspection and the PACP SESS engineers collapse risk evaluation is a highly valuable tool for homeowners in many ways…and it cost just $30 a copy. Of course these evaluations are in Alfa Numerical code but there is a glossary that accompanies them so you can de code the information…ie immediate risk of collapse .. collapse is near future..etc.

HERE’S HOW YOU GET YOUR COPY…JUST CUT AND PASTE  FILL IN YOUR ADDRESS INFO AND EMAIL:

SUBJECT LINE: CORA REQUEST OF SEWER MAIN VIDEO INSPECTION AND PACP REPORT

TO: THE MANAGER OF DENVER PUBLIC WORKS BILL VIDAL

CC: Public information office Patty Weiss

Under the Colorado Open Records Act Rules I request a copy of the Video Inspection and accompanying PACP evaluation report of the manhole to manhole sewer main at (your street and cross street) serving this address: (your street address).

Please notify me by return email the cost of the copies and where and when I may pick them up.

Thank you

Make the Check Payable to: Department of Revenue and make sure you get a receipt.

Here’s their emails

bill.vidal@ci.denver.co.us

patty.weiss@denvergov.org

If they don’t give you the copies file a complaint with the Attorney General. That can be done by email. They can be fined $100 per violation.  

If the give you any guff just email me at Denversewerscam..we’ll make em famous!

For those of you need to cut to the chase..you know who you are.. Please scroll to red lettered portion of the script. If you chose, you can return to the entertainment portions of the document later.

Joe, I appreciate your invitation of 10/27/09 BUT,

I wouldn’t have needed to create this web page had WMD been honest and forthcoming with me and the people I care about in the first place.

You have to start telling people that the problem is systemic in these VCP pipe multi jointed city sewer trench systems. So the people who have houses along those sewer trench systems can organize and get the problem solved. 

If you’re going to dole out snippets of information let it be information that expands knowledge not restricts it.

Otherwise all I’m going to do is reveal information like:

The fact that 50% of Denver sanitary sewers trenches have these multi jointed VCP pipes in them and that 75% of these municipal sewer main pipes are under groundwater level.

Like major source of bacterial contamination of groundwater is from “additional water” entering into the multi jointed VCP pipes buried in the cities trench. That the EPA has found 80% comes from sewer mains and 20% from private service connection pipes. That the EPA has found that 80% of this problem is found in just 20% of these VCP sewers trenches …aka the first generation of sewer trenches.

Things like the joints are so bad in Denver’s VCP pipe sewer mains and because of Denver dry climate t WMD spends 90% of its $1.7 million annul O&M budget on cleaning roots out from the 50% of Denver’s sewer mains that are made of VCP pipe…the problem is systemic.

Like the location of this first generation of sewer trenches are Denver’s original neighborhoods like NW Denver; which because of its geographic location has a chronic problem with e.coli and fecal coli contamination in the watershed,and;

The DURA program is a waste of scarce CWSRF money and the CWSRF finances municipal project lateral rehab and in more effective and more efficient use of the money. That CWSRF program is a loan and we have to pay the money back. That if we spend less money we have to pay less money back. And Insituform is being paid a 70% markup and we have to pay that money back to the FEDs. We can illuminate the markup and spend the money on lateral lining.. the money will go to the lining sewer tap  not to lining the pockets of a 500 million dollar corporation who employs just about 1100 people nationwide.

And there are about 100 miles of these sewer trenches in NW Denver, and the trench failure and tap failure and bacterial contamination that comes with it is so bad, and funds are so short; we need every penny of the available funds to be spent on a “in house application of trenchless technology” …and not being spent on Insituforms 70% markup over material equipment a labor.

If trench rehabilitation is the only choice then it has to be done right.. lower lateral rehabilitation must be done as well,and;

 Portland Oregon does the work ‘in house” ,and, that’s what the EPA recommends..and that Minneapolis does it that way to and many others as well.

That WMD does it as well because it most cost effective way to apply the technology .. but that WMD  is only using that method on one type of trenchless technology chemical compound joint sealing…and not Cure in Place in Place pipe lining,and;

The Trenchless technology industry was born with “No Dig” chemical joint sealing of existing pipes in 1963, because the joint failure issue had already gotten so bad that the Federal Government approached a large chemical company to find a solution,and;

A better “‘trenchless system” to resolve the “trench systems” failure was invented by Eric Woods and brought the US in 1975. The system was called Cure in Place Pipe and the company that owned the patents on it was Insituform. That in 1987 Bob Affholder & Gerry Kalishman registered Insituforms Place of business in an apartment at 38^th & Wolff in NW Denver. Less than a mile away from where you an Reza Kazemian did your field test on trenchless methods of sewer joint sealing. Though there were many other CIPP installations companies in the US by then Insituform became WMD exclusive contractor then until 2007. That in 1992 Affholder & Kalishman had become powerful enough through their network of CIPP installers and wealthy enough to buy the exclusive world wide rights to CIPP patents from Insituform B.V. and took over Insituform which was the largest CIPP Company in the US by then. That in 2005 Jerry Kalishman died and his son Tom took his place as majority share holder,and that later that year Kalishman,  Affholder and another Insituform exec Dwayne Shaw split from Insituform and formed and company named SAK Construction, and that in 2007 SAK became the only other company beside Insituform to get a sewer lining contract in Denver since 1987,and;

That in 1984 while WMD Director of engineering  YOU formed the ASTM 17.64 committee on NO DIG LATERAL SEWER PIPE REHAB PRODUCTS and since then you’ve become the Chairman over the entire ASTM that governs no dig sewer rehab products….and that the ASTM is the most powerful and influential entity in the trenchless technology industry.. because they essentially decide what product can be used and who can install them.  

That you’ve held yet other powerful and influential positions in the industry such as being The Chairman” of the U of Louisiana Trenchless Technology Center Industry Advisory Board since 1998. That in 1992 you became active who became active the U of L TTC before the center was even called the Trenchless Technology Center. …but after 35 years of this product being on the US market still homeowners can use it because WMD won’t let them

And from the day of your retirement in 2005 you became Chairman Trenchless Technology Centers Municipal Users Forum and the TCC Municipal Forum is where Capitol projects engineers Dwayne Qwery & Jim Potter is a source for their “engineers bid” information for WMD CIPP sewer lining projects.

If instead you withhold information of what you’ve been doing to our sewers and why…

If then a guy like me looks to WMD and Denver City Attorneys for the information that will help his 83 year old mother who is sick with cancer protect her hard earn property an dwindling financial resources…And instead WMD demonstrates to him their ability to withhold evidence and public records ..to lie and not be held accountable for it..take over our system and  abuse it ..to create false reports ..to quash complaints about them;and generally try and make as ass out of a guy like me…

A guy like me will ask himself: What’s the big secret? What’s with all the deception?...and after having been worn out by their game…Then a guy like me looks back at all the time and money these people made him waste and figures out  “that’s what WMD’s  game is” “That’s what their system is all about” ..It’s to make people consume time and money and wear them out, and make people into asses.  

Then when I discover that other of my neighbors (people who like my mother are property owners and who ill and elderly) have been caught in WMD’s trap and worked over WMD and bullied into submission….instead of becoming an ass I become ASSHOLE..a bigger one than I ever have been.

You see growing up in North Denver in the 60’and 70’s learned to be an asshole. I’m used to being outnumber by gangs and gang members who from other parts came into my neighborhood to rob, steal and damage property and generally molest us. I rather enjoyed the baseball bat diplomacy that some of us North Denver boys learned to apply to adjust certain individuals reasoning. But I did it to protect the people who I cared about…so I felt good about and justified. Perhaps that came because of Italian heritage. I don’t know. (When you rub them the wrong way Italians can become some of the biggest assholes in the world. It’s just part of their nature) In any case I actually thrived on the challenge and enjoyed being out numbered. So much so that when I became old enough I went an joined another very small group of assholes who thrive on big challenges and really get off on kicking ass and taking while being out numbered…and do it on a daily basis. That group is called the Airborne Ranger Infantry.

So I’ve got this “thing” you see… that is inculcated in me from the time a group of older  boys tried to steal my brand new tricycle from me, to my brief military career to more recent endeavors to make this place safe and clean. This thing has been a burden at times because I can’t move on until I’m satisfied I’ve done everything I can…like as said it a ‘thing.”

 While certain actions in a certain circumstance are appropriate, they’re not in today’s world and in mainstream society. They are actually counterproductive. I had stopped getting bigger Louisville sluggers long ago and gave back all the other weapons the government had given me as tools of the trade. And I wanted to learn to use the tools that educated and civil people do. Actually I need to have some other means of problem resolution. I found that in the World Wide Web. I found that it not only was the biggest Louisville Slugger of them all…it is the greatest source of information ever in the history of man. And at the same time the best means of communication. Because not only is everything put in writing so you can read it you can see videos and hear audio recordings…All I needed to do accomplish my mission in this situation was collect certain information from the actual world and put it into the virtual world for everyone to see .

 So when I discovered that WMD wanted to make this Asshole into and Ass I suppressed my burning desire to indulge my first instinct… and since I had the means …I routed that energy into positive action.

I just followed the path of secrets WMD left..I looked for what WMD Mr. Muller had hid from me (CIPP) and found it was a very talked about subject on the web. In my spare time and with a point and click I stored things like ASTM specification on CIPP products ,PDF files reports from experts in the field , and news paper articles and law suits on my computer memory chip…and read them.

I discovered the secret of INFILTRATION MIGRATION & ROOT INTRUSION MIGRATION AND HOW WHEN YOU APPLY CIPP PIPE LINER ONLY TO THE SEWER MAIN (LIKE WMD DOES) THE PROBLEMS THAT PLAUGE THE MUNICIPAL TRENCH DON’T STOP..THEY JUST SHIFT TO DIRECLTY TO THE CONECTION JOINT BETWEEN THE SEWER MAIN AND PRIVATELY OWNED PIPE (AKA THE TAP) AND INCREASES THEM… CAUSING THE JOINT SEAL TO BREAK ALONG WITH THE PRIVATELY OWNED PIPE…. AND HOW THE ONLY WAY TO PREVENT THAT FROM HAPPENING …THE ONLY THING ONE CAN DO TO STOP… WAS TO INSTALL THE CIPP LINING SYSTEMS LATERAL PIPE LINING COMPONENT..one of these product brand name is Top Hat its produced by Cosmic S and cost only $1200.00

I couldn’t believe what I had read. So among the obvious questions that come to mind like: Why doesn’t WMD tell people about this systemic failure?…And why doesn’t WMD tell people they’ve got the solution?..comes the question of Why Doesn’t  WMD install this lateral CIPP liner when they know the tap connection to break without it?

Well the first answer that came to mind was that because of our municipal code. Our code states that the lower lateral pipes belong to the homeowner. But I had read that other cities with codes like ours had found any easy. So once again because we live in Denver under WMD’s control we weren’t getting the right info. I figured since other cities were using it has to be available on Denver’s retail market. So I looked and just as expected I found plumbers who had it. But the plumbers told me that WMD won’t let them install it in Denver homeowners taps!!! …Once again I found the answers to my questions and  discovered yet ANOTHER BIG WMD SECRET!!

Even though I had good reason to mistrust WMD I still refused to believe what I had read and heard from these plumbers. I refused to believe that WMD engineers would actually do something to cause damage to private property. I could understand that perhaps because of its cost WMD wasn’t going to pay for it. But I refused to believe WMD would actually prevent the homeowner from using a product that was available on the market and that the homeowner needed to protect their pipe from breaking. That would be just plain crazy.. people would notice..WMD would have to at least warn homeowners..How could they get away with it?  I had even more questions than ever before but in the end

I FINALLY FOUND THE KEY TO YOUR PUZZLE JOE..IT’S TIME!!!

I went back over a report by Insituforms Chief engineer that explains further settlement of support soil and the infiltration migration.. and read up on sanitary sewer collapse risk assessments (NASCO PACP). I found its what engineers use to determine “when” a pipe will collapse so that they can apply the appropriate no dig method and the right ‘time” and prevent it. And after I re read all the reports by engineers (WMD Barsoom & Kazemian 1999 NS Cesareo &Fields 1975 et al) ..rembered what I heard from WMD inspectors : “age”..”old pipe’… “outdated” “a sink hole forms over time”…the joint gets old”…I realized that the key to this all was TIME… I had read “Kathula” :

Trench systems take years to deteriorate and “transition” from the “leaky joint stage” through to “crack at joint” stage and then through other stage to full “collapse”. So I figured it out: When WMD applies its trenchless methods i.e. the “in house” joint sealing compounds or Insituforms CIPP only to the mains it takes time for the damage to the private taps to manifest itself. Number one its underground and no one can see it but WMD.

·         and since no one knows about the systemic problem in Denver but WMD engineers, and;

·         since no one knows about what WMD engineers are lining mains to protect them from systemic trench failure problem, and;

·          since tap breakage are rare and happen usually happen sporadically ,and;

·          since by our Municipal Code  private line breaks are a code violation, and, the homeowners repair enforceable by law; our Municipal code is then a perfect device to conceal the damage done from WMD operations.

And because:

·         WMD Operations code enforcement agents misinform everyone that tap breakage is not a systemic problem, and;

·          Reza Kazemian’s WMD OPS agents never reveal video of the sewer main and agents never tell anyone they can get a copy of WMD’s sewer main video and risk assessment reports ,no one can see what is actually causing the taps to break…The sewer inspection (a public record) only cost $30.00 (man hole to man hole) But WMD OPS does not let people know it. All WMD engineers need do is just keep mute and dodge being questioned.

The reason for this is because:

·         WMD has done thousands of sewer main joint sealing operations since the 70’s, and;

·         have had Insituform install hundreds of thousands of feet of CIPP since the 80’s,and;

·         500 to 700 taps break in Denver each year, and, WMD’s engineers don’t want to tell people that WMD’s screwed up sewer Operation & Maintenance program (that the EPA has been struggling to get them to change for decades) is causing it all!!!

(:To combat this I’m working to educate the public on how to file Colorado Open Records act requests of WMD risk assessment report and video inspections; and how to interpret them using the PACP manual. I’m going to post this information on line and am including it in my (FREE) Senior/NW Denver Resource pamphlet. I’m also suggesting to Rick Garcia & Denis Gallagher to make these public records readily available to homeowner’s, (perhaps with on line down loads of you MIMS/GIS data bank and complete with only payments).  I suggest that information on the sewer failure and CIPP and how to get inspections and PACP interpretations be put on all neighborhood organization web pages..Now to these and  other elected officials (who I hope are following this “conversation”) to combat this problem I further suggest that they work to compel WMD to complete their EPA CMOM obligation for a public information campaign on source of water contamination. On their CMOM rule driven public education web page WMD has conveniently left out the sanitary sewer as a source of bacterial contamination. If this information is included as the EPA intended it to be public awareness will increase as well as the public’s support the EPA recommendation of how to cost effectively abate sewer systemic failure contribution to contamination of our water. This is especially needed in NW Denver. It is only through reports like Camp Dresser & McGee 1972 and more currently Tim Harris (Water Quality Manager Metro Denver treatment) on the geographic area between Lakewood Gulch and Clear Creek (aka NW Denver) , how its particular scarcity of fresh surface water from streams and creeks combines with Denver’s dry climate, to create the chronic e.coli and fecal coli contamination we have. It’s only through understanding what “generation” (late 1800’s-early 1900’s) of sewer trench we have in NW Denver, its systemic failure, how trench systems deteriorate and it’s causes (info that WMD is withholding from us), and combining that info with these other reports; that you can begin to understand what the 100+/- first generation trench systems contribution to the chronic problem is.  Then by unburying EPA’s Region 8 July 2004 water quality in the S Platte report to the mayor from the back pages to the front pages you can begin to understand the economic impact that these failing sewer have on the entire city of Denver. From secret Canadian geese egg killing program to flock relocation to the Army Corps of Engineers having to release more water from our reservoirs(drinking water reserves) just to “dilute the e.coli & fecal coli bacteria levels in the river adjacent to neighborhood, down with in safer levels. If you read Barsoom & Kazemian report on a field test done on NW Denver sewers you can know how many thousands gallons of groundwater is being contaminated per day by these sewer trenchless Then you can begin to understand why we need products that prevent tap failure (especially in NW Denver) instead of what WMD is currently doing…allowing them to break. If you can know as I know the array of no dig products available on the US market, their shockingly low cost, where they’ve been use how they’ve been installed; then you’ll begin to ask the same question I have to the very same people I have..and perhaps get a straight answer.  I also suggest that when incidents like that of the fish kill in Sloans of Oct 07 occur, that the City & County of Denver Press Release explanation’s are put in language that everyday people can understand.  I’m not suggesting they use terms as like I would to get the point across: “Too much Shit is in the water”..perhaps feces or waste would be better. But they shouldn’t use terms like “too many nutrients”, or blame the even on the physical make up of the lake or geography and weather events).         

BACK TO YOU JOE:  NOW I GOT A BIG PROBLEM.

I got to learn how to relate all this to people and elected officials who nothing at all about sewers. People who have been treated like mushrooms kept in the dark and feed the same stuff that is emanating our out our sewers each day and in greater loads than those being dump into our environment.  The subject matter is disgusting. Sewer’s are under ground and are out of sight and mind and most people like it that way. When they have problems they hire professionals. Of those I’ve interviewed they all believe if such a problem existed the professional in their public utility would take care of it. The only people interested are those who’ve been hit by it..and are disappoint when they understand that whatever solution that can be had is too late for them anyway. Some have spoken to lawyers and have been told that there is nothing that they can do about it…except perhaps get the city to change is municipal code. (but you and I know that’s not necessary and that is has been resolved).

These every day people and their elected representatives don’t even know that a sewer isn’t just a pipe and instead is a system. Though their intelligent human beings and when given all the information they can use their God given gift of reason to make their own conclusion….I needed a fast way to prove it to lawyers and politicians and regular folk alike..

So for the lawyers I request a copy of WMD & Insituform CIPP contract. And sure enough true to their SOP WMD won’t give me the entire contract… not without me jumping through hoops…In the end they still didn’t give me all of the contract because City Attorney Scott Johnson says <he has to withhold several pages that contain Insituforms  “trade secrets” .And the <city is bound by law to protect them>.  In reality there is no such no law and everything anyone wants to know about Insituform products are contained in their US patents and you can get that information on line with a point and click….diagrams and all or by reading the ASTM standards.

As I had then guessed WMD’s contract contains no disclosures on Infiltration Migration or Root Intrusion and Insituforms warrantee either. The only information it gave was it lasted for 3 years. Since I had discovered damage done to my mother by Insituform CIPP’s and a mistake they left unrepaired during the installation, before the warranty was up, I contacted Insituforms insurance company Liberty Mutual and filed a claim. Their answer came back ,<they knew nothing about CIPP ..infiltration migration and further settlement and would have to as their “insured”…Insituform!!!>. Of course being the asshole that I am communicated with them in writing.  So I’ve the proof that no one knows about this stuff but WMD engineers and Insituform. That proof was then enhanced by letters I received from Insituforms attorneys and the proceeding at trial.

But because I’m and real asshole and real assholes don’t hate being wrong; what I’ve done is: I’ve collected WMD reports and videos inspections of actual sewers in NW Denver. One sewer inspection have been made over a period of years and shows how CIPP without it lateral lining component routes roots to private taps and infiltration migration as well deteriorating homeowners tap connections. The pictures of alley surface I’ve taken over time illustrate where the Insituforms/WMD defective installation of the CIPP liner have allowed the continued settlement of the alley, and, the tap replacements that have been made after the CIPP was installed. Pictures of the defective points in the actual CIPP liner were sent in complaint through the mayors 311 and a mayoral inquiry opened. Mr. Muller created a false report stating no defect were seen above or below ground; so the inquiry was closed. 

With collaboration of one of the residents I obtained the actual video inspection related to the Jan 9th 2009 Denver Post article Denver Dirty Little Surprise on (45^th & King one block from Rocky Mountain Lake). And found Mr. Muller was at it again and reported breaks in the city main as breaks in the homeowners tap and served code violation citations. In 2004 Reza Kazemian reported to EPA Region 8 auditor that early 2004 “every foot of the NW Denver sanitary sewer had been inspected and sealed. The operation PACP Sanitary Sewer Survey collapse risk assessment took 4 months and cost 1 million dollars. From it Kazemian concluded the sewer was not contributing to the high bacteria levels in area lakes the watershed. Therefore this time I made the CORA request through PW Public information office for the historic video. Kazemian response <the 2004 inspection was of the storm sewer> no video inspection was available.  I then requested records of inspections as far back as 1998 and once again WMD’s Muller response ‘was WMD had none”.  Like the Tennyson St video (2 blks from Sloans Lake)this 45^th & King video inspection illustrates how the was left to deteriorate (no chemical joint sealing) until CIPP was required to keep the sewer from collapse. However in this particular sewer WMD patch just a 5 ft section of the main leaving several other holes and cracks unrepaired. Once again I filed a complaint through mayors 311 and once again the complaints were routed to Muller. I continued to solicit 311 for follow up; none response was given. Once again I obtained WMD internal communication and found Muller had instructed 311 management to forward all email from my address to him. No repairs were made. So if filed a complaint with the EPA but no response has been returned yet.      

But since that was not enough and since I decided to use this wonderful resource called the internet to message out..I sent information to all the politicians I could find and all the neighborhood organizations. But my messages got lost in the fray. So I started work on an information brochure (FREE)for NW Denver residents on the issues involving our sewers and planned to present it at last year’s Senior Resource Day. But between one thing led to another and it wasn’t ready. Then I discovered that one of my neighbors was the creator of web site called Hypocrisyc.om. Perfect that’s exactly what I needed.  I now had more time and the means to collect some more specific information from some very specific people…engineers. I posted some very provocative articles (containing fact of what’s happing in the industry) and filled them with trivia about WMD engineers. While I read some more and monitored developments and kept working on the brochure I waited for someone to take the bait…but nothing.

So this year’s Oct 9^th Senior Resource Day was nearing I began to work to complete my pamphlet .But once again I was drawn away and couldn’t get in printed out in time. I had to go the Seniors Day empty handed. I was able to bring the issue up and challenge the attending representatives to review the information I would forward them.  I spoke about Cosmic S TOP HAT and how this product was cheap, needed, and WMD were the only people who could get it for use and install it. None of them knew what the hell I was talking about!!. In fact some of them thought I was a salesman for the company and that I was trying to sell the product to the city or get them to endorse it to public works!!.

But after having had the chance to speak to a few individually I explained a little better. I mentioned yours and Reza Kazemian name as the people who knew all about the product. I promised I’d put together some information that would enlighten them about the issue. Since I had the web site I felt that was the best and fastest way they could retrieve it. Within hours of my posting the info you the world famous Mr. Joe Barsoom appear. Instead of being critical of my article you ask me to correct some Joe Barsoom career trivia”.  What another serendipitous event it could have work out better had I planned it that way.

You see I had an idea for an article that if sent to specific group people I would be sure to stir them into action..that is the N Denver Italian community. See it was important if you were invited to Melbourne by the ASTT or the ISTT or even or the NASTT..what matter was that you went…  

Because while you were in Melbourne enjoining the limelight being the ASTT key note speaker..and the  “cocktail parties and exclusive dinner engagements, the golf & tennis tournaments; that the event brochure advertized as “many networking opportunities”. This WWII Veteran ,who in the tradition of our Italian American paisan’s had always meticulously cared for their home and yard was being served with a citation for negligence and having a lien put on their family home in order to repair the broken tap in the sewer main under your care. The sewer main along Tennyson that you allowed to deteriorate to the point it had to be lined under the emergency rehab contract. This man is known and well loved in our community and like my mother his wife was battling cancer at the time. The flag pole in his yards fly’s the American Flag he’s that type of guy..He related to me that the WMD Ops code enforcement agent was very courteous and considerate of their dilemma. He also related to me that the guy showed me a picture of my broken tap and offer”ed DURA financial assistance program to “help them out.” But what the old gentleman didn’t realize was that the paper the agent served him with citation for criminal offense.  What the agent didn’t show the elderly couple was the video footage of the sewer main with big holes in it all along that stretch of sewer. He was never shown the previous collapse and PVC point repair. When he asked Insituform workers what they were doing to the sewer they said “routine maintenance.” The hang tag that Insituform placed on their door days prior to the work didn’t explain that the main was being lined either and of course the reason why wasn’t disclosed either. So even when they have the opportunity to tell people (and the hang tag notification is part of the process)what’s going on in the sewer main and why they don’t..instead they tell people its “routine maintenance”

 The invoice that his private plumber gave him didn’t show the 6% enterprise tax and the several hundred dollars in fee and permits public works levies on the work. He’s not aware he’s been called a criminal or that the violation is not a pluming code violation..The violation he’d been cited for is a CWA federal violation for contamination of groundwater.  But what nobody realizes is that our CWA driven municipal code wasn’t created for WMD to use to regulate homeowners. The 1972 CWA was created to regulate wastewater utilities that had not taken care of the sewer and had ignored previous federal acts.  And likewise the 1999 EPA Capacity Management Operation Maintenance program was created to regulate laggard wastewater utilities like WMD into compliance with 1972 CWA.

Can you understand  what my method is Joe? I first broach an argument..Factual events and while recounting the story I introduce yet other enlightening information…and then let the internet work its magic..   I plan on doing that with my ranger buddies as well..That’s a real unique focus group. But I’ve t not found  just the right angle yet. If I can evoke their sense of duty will get this thing fixed right away. 

 So I began to ask you some very specific questions And just like all other WMD personnel I’d ever met you tippy toed out of answering them. So then I gave you a bit more information on what I knew. And asked you some more questions… You stop responding in the public forum and invite me to meet with you and WMD in private meeting “in the interest of the Public”…It’s in the interest of the public that they get this e.coli fecal coli contamination problem fixed..is in their interest to be able to get the products that can stop their tap from breaking and groundwater contamination at the same time…But it’s WMD hiding it from people and stopping plumbers from installing these products that’s not in the interest of the public.

Since I haven’t responded to you in over a week (once again waiting for developments and attending to other matters) as of 1:58 pm Nov 2 2009 I get a phone call from none other than Reza Kazemian WMD Operations director. Instead of asking for me or the name of the person who the phone is actually registered to; Kazemian asked for yet another person.  When I asked him why he was calling.. he said he was “returning” a call from a woman named Julia and to speak about issues with the sewer.    

My 2007 emailed complaint about the incident near Sloans Lake and his Chief investigator Muller’s behavior was forwarded to Kazemian through Rick Garcia over two years ago. I‘ve since moved from that location and have no telephone in my name. My mother’s phone is still registered in my grandfathers name. At the time Mr. Kazemian (though he knew exactly what was happening in the alley as I would find out later) opted not to call me at one of the three personal contact numbers I had given, or, even reply to Garcia’s email or mine.  He didn’t want to intervene when he should have and

Now he’s phoning my home? I’ve had WMD operations personnel use their “special police powers” and the ability to threaten people with fines and further legal action.. in an attempt to intimidate me before.  I’ve got audio and visual well document proof of it. No one has called him from this home though he said he was returning a call. The person he was asking for lives miles from here and her number is nothing like ours.  I find it odd that he just happens to ring up my house by mistake  just when I exposed one of WMD’s /Kazemian  big secrets (WMD not allowing plumber to install CIPP in private taps) he rings up my house…“by mistake”.  This is the type of behavior is what I’ve learned to expect from WMD. Back in 97 I’ve had WMD Ops agent stop my plumber from video inspecting a sewer tap so that we could discover if there was a break in the private line or the main or what the problem really was. The drain layer ending abandoning the job fearing he’d lose his ability to work in Denver. “My contractor”, being paid thousands of dollars (by me), bound by a written contract, where the “scope of the work” indicated that the lower lateral was to be video inspected prior to excavation of the easement,and, how this was to be accomplished from within private property as not to disturb the evidence of what cause the damage in the public easement; preferred to breach his contract rather than disobey the WMD ops agent who wanted to stop him from doing the investigation. Then in 2007 I’ve got Kazemian Chief Investigator Muller seeing holes in my mother lower lateral pipe were none exists… he imagines seeing a depression over my the lateral pipe but he cant see a 20 foot forming sinkhole in along the sewer main..While this large dispersion along the main was noted in reports and video inspections. In fact it was why the main was lined. When I call him on it he threatens.. While those tactics work on sickly old ladies they don’t work on me..While they can use their legally authority over private property to “leaglly” intimidate and or to intimate threats to property owners…and have power of plumbers licenses I’m not a property owner or a plumber and so they are legally out of bounds when they try to deal with me in the they are most accustom.

In fact the shoe is on the other foot now. Because you a Kazemian are professional engineers and since I found out that engineers are licensed by the state and have to abide by certain rules and morals of the profession. Your ability to keep that license can be called into question and examined. I haven’t filed a complaint..yet because I want to give you the chance to demonstrate those ethics that you sworn to uphold…but instead what do I get?

If Kazemian, Muller… anyone in WMD doesn’t like their name to be printed in my articles..if they want to challenge what I have printed then they’d had better do it legally and in the legal forum of the court. Because anything is intimidation and abuse of power just because they hold the position they do.  In fact there is nothing that I rather they do than sue me for what I’ve written. Because It would just give me another opportunity in yet another forum that is not under their control to illustrate to the public what these people have done.  I lose no sleep worrying about being sued by Muller..Kazemian..Scot Johnson Patty Weiss or any other of the individuals I’ve mentioned in any of my articles..why? Firstly their cowards….secondly they don’t want their issue brought to light and in the legal forum because they’ll lose.  What I’ve said about them and is fact and well documented. They articles I will print on them what they said what they did in what circumstance are based upon their internal email communications. If they don’t like what I print or my interpretations of the events my web site provides a free public forum in which they can to correct me…but they don’t . Why because their cowards.     

So I can only assume Kazemain’s  gesture was to “let me know that he knows where I live”. He corrected himself saying “they” gave me the wrong number.” What he was doing with my number and why “they” gave it to him in the first place” and who “they” are will all be answered.  Because, Mr. Kazemian has  earned himself a complaint being filed against him.

 And since the Department of Justice & FBI is currently shifting through hundreds of thousands of Insituform documents in an ongoing investigation into bid rigging a bribery case that started in Birmingham Alabama, in which Insituform joint venture partner and several wastewater engineers and inspectors were convicted …I’m going to forward all the information I’ve collected to those investigators. I’m going to contact the Birmingham who sparked the case once again and see what I need to do to bring him to Denver. Then I’m going contact my resources within the EPA and see how they can help.

Sewer taps are like bung holes Joe… every ones got one…And because of how the internet works every time someone has a sewer problem their going to find my web site..and this my long letter with a bunch of key words in it….along with all kinds of other documents I’m about to post. The more I keep repeating key words and key names the more the information is drawn from the remote reaches into the top of page..Through the web anyone from one part of the world can know what anyone else does in other parts of the world. You can’t control it. It powered by ad’s for products and services..key words key names

Help if you please but in any case do not hinder. Because the people of this country collective bunghole’s are bleeding bad enough as it is from intellectual intercourse like yours.

When you come on a public forum called Denver Sewer Scam.Hyrocisy.com and you are asked to help the people of Denver. But instead you’re not forthcoming.. you are evasive ..and when you are asked several times please take your time and be clear and when you are asked about specific subject that especially you should know and the public has a right to know…You stop answering and you want to meet in private.. All you accomplish is convince people that there is a scam and it’s about sewers and its  centered around Denver.. if you still believe that the city and its employees can’t be sued.. and for what the city does to the sewer mains that creates problems for private lines; then read this Inverse condemnation law suit  CSAA (McKenna)v The City of Palo Alto(super. Ct. CV813502)..the case involves roots too and it changed how the State of California rehabs their sewers.. They now install lateral liners.

If you want to keep on telling people the problem isn’t systemic…and that a homeowner can protect themselves from the systemic problem in the city trench by $79 Roto rotor job .. if that’s your story then stick with it ..I’m sticking with mine.  

PS: Councilman Garcia I’m now ready to have that appointment with you I you like. It should take about half a day It will require me showing videos and doing a walk about certain alleys.

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We are honored to have the person who has played a key role in solving the nation’s sewer failure and water pollution problems visit our web site with his comments. You are touted as one of the world’s foremost authorities on sewer rehabilitation.  I have approved your comments for publication and they are now posted alongside the article and I will post anything you write. I promise I will look back into my sources again and make changes as appropriate. I appreciate your attention to detail a trait about professional engineers that I enjoy.

But there are more pressing issues at hand. Since as a professional engineer you have the duty to protect human health and “tell it like it is”… In meantime I wonder if I might impose on you to answer a few questions:

Given the design of the old sewer trench installations, the infiltration, pipe breakage the groundwater contamination ,the backups, the outflows and overflows  these caused created such a threat to human health they were partially responsible for the Clean water & Safe drinking water acts being were passed. Which I’m sure are aware after being WMD’s Director of engineering for 30 years. Denver has some unique challenges which make complying with the EPA especially difficult and a particularly the S Platte adjacent to NW Denver neighborhood.  After decades of work and billions of dollars spent, disappointed with the results, congress canceled  the 201 grant program and ordered the EPA to come up with stronger  rules. The grant program was replaced with the CWSRF which was designed to make wastewater utilities more responsible for their spending. In tune with that the EPA came up with the CMOM to better wastewater utilities operation & maintenance of the nations sewer systems.  The federal grant cash cow gone, the CWSRF fund notoriously underfunded, new rules to follow ,elected administrations focus on above ground infrastructure, all put you as WMD director of engineering in a bit of a bind.  You had a lot to do and little money to do it with. It’s my understanding that after 30 years this still the situation in Denver and the rest of the country today. This has put homeowners in these afflicted areas in the position in which they have to learn to fend for themselves if they desire to protect their health and property from the phenomenon.

While you may not agree with my characterization of the situation; your input as a leading expert in the nation will be invaluable to the citizens.  I hope you can answer these 2 questions:      

1)     Beyond “NO DIG” technology, how can a homeowner protect the exiting tap connection and lower lateral pipes from the systemic failure phenomenon that is plaguing these older VCP –trench installations?

 2)     Since the sealing of only a portion of the joints in a flow isolated sewer reach causes the infiltration to migrate  to the unsealed and unprotected portions (e.g. manholes and service laterals) “even causing tap connections and  lower laterals that are intact at the time of rehabilitation to fail” (Cesareo & Field 1975 et al), and since chemical grout joint sealing doesn’t protect the buried pipe from settlement of the damaged support soil, and, since CIPP has the shortcoming of annular gaps between the host pipe and liner and CIPP doesn’t repair the support soil nor does it protect the unlined pipes from support soil settlement, and both CIPP and grout sealing cause root to be redirected to the tap connection, and ,since especially in the case of CIPP ,infiltration shifts to the tap connection and since Infiltration/its support soil erosion  is the cause of pipe breakage,  from your 30 year experience of  observing the use of no dig products in the US what low cost and easy to install products are there available on the retail market for homeowners to protect their unlined and unprotected tap connection from infiltration migration and the continued settlement of the trench support soil ?

Please feel free to expand on the argument as much as you please. The people of Denver need your help.

 Here’s Joe Barsooms answer Oct 13th 2009: 

 Author : Joseph Barsoom

 Comment:
“It is my opinion that, this issue is of great concern in all municipalities in United States and possible all over the world.
The municipalities are asking property owners to own their house connection from their homes to the City sewer. This lateral in part is installed in the City ROW which can be a City street or a City Alley, with no easement granted to the home owners for installing private lateral. This is the way in great percentage of the Municipalities.
The fair way for the home owners in all municipalities is to change the ordinance and have the Municipalities own the part of the lateral installed in the ROW, if it is a street or an alley, and the property owners own the portion of the lateral installed on their privet land. Additionally install a clean out at the property line to separate the ownerships of the lateral and serve as access point for cleaning and maintaining the lateral.
The owner will be responsible for the part of the house connection installed on his property and the Municipality own the part installed in their ROW.
Regarding your second question about the trenchless method of installing pipe lines it is a technology with much research went into it and proven to be more economical and will last as long as new construction. There is a research under way now to evaluate the useful life of the CIPP .
There are several installers all over the country installing these technologies (there are many other trenchless methods available in the market other than CIPP). In the Denver area I can count as much as six installers for these technologies. With that many installers the prices came down from $64.00 per foot in 1984 to $18.00 per foot in 2009 for 8 inch sewer, this is a great benefit to the tax payers. In addition to many other benefits of using Trenchless Technology, many papers written on this subject.
Another point in your report it gets the reader to think that I was in charge of WMD on 1977, which is not true. In 1977 I was planning engineer, the people who build the Division and brought it from a trailer office to what it is now with all the great things they done were, Jerry Zohn and Bud Ruppert, God bless their soles, and Nick Skifaliedes with all the help and the support of Mayors and City Council
Also my position as Director of Engineering for Wastewater Management was only for 12 years not 30 years, and water quality function is not part of the Engineering Department of WMD which I was in charge of, it is under the Operation Division.
Hope this will help”

Oct 14 2009 

Mr. Barsoom, as you can see, no sooner did you respond than your answer was posted. You don’t know how happy this intellectual intercourse with you makes me. I want to thank and applaud you for your quick response.  No more than 5 hours had pasted since I published the “Joe Barsoom The People of Denver need your help” web page, than did you style an answer.  Perhaps it was because you are a very busy man and you where in a rush answer my plea for you to help the people of Denver that your response came out like it did …a bit cryptic.  Engineers are like doctors and lawyers and have a “speak” all their own. It’s a cipher that they use to communicate among themselves. I understand what you said because I’ve been reading up on it. But engineers speak doesn’t provide common folk explanations they can hang their hat on.

Remember we are in the public forum of “Joe Barsoom the People of Denver need your help”  yet still a  portion of “Denversewerscam.Hypocrisy.com.  So keep it simple so that people can know your trying to help them and don’t get the idea that there is a scam about sewers in Denver.  

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Now you already answered one of the three biggest questions that have been confusing people: Is systemic sewer failure phenomenon in older sewers real?  You already answered that question and it’s obviously YES. Otherwise trenchless technology aka NO DIG wouldn’t even have been invented.

So I’m going to ask you two simple questions that everyday people can understand:

1)      What does trenchless technology protect against?

2)      Can a homeowner prevent the tap connections and lower pipes in the trench from breaking by ordinary everyday maintenance of the pipe?  In other words can they protect their pipes form breaking without trenchless technology?    

Take your time and if you think of anything you feel is opportune for the public to know please don’t hesitate to add it.