DEERING, ALASKA, USA Client: Village Safe Water, Alaska Country: ALASKA, USA Length of Pipe: 1.68 km No. of Valves: 53 Volume of Flow: 8 litres / second Specialist Feature: Operation in arctic conditions Deering is situated 800km North West of Anchorage. This small village consisting of some fifty houses, a school and a laundry sits on a narrow peninsular with the sea on one side and a small river estuary on the other. There are no roads leading to or from Deering so approach to the village has to be made by sea or air. A vacuum system was chosen to serve this village because of its versatility, ease of installation and its ability to transport the relatively low flows of sewage from the individual properties at high speed through small bore pipes to the vacuum collect

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