The Connor Creek Pilot Combined Sewer Outlet (CSO) Control
Facility project was an effort on the part of the City of
Detroit to improve its storm-water handling and clean up the
Connor Creek, a creek feeding into the Detroit River. The Connor
Creek had been heavily contaminated with PCB’s and Mercury which
were in need of removal in conjunction with the extension of an
existing massive triple barrel box culvert, each individual
throat measuring 15.24 meters wide by 6.1 meters high.
The soil was removed hydraulically and pumped into large
TitanTubeTM geotextile tubes manufactured by Flint Industries
(Metter, GA) and marketed by L.T. Elsey and Son, Inc. (Harper
Woods, MI). After the sediment had been dewatered, the tubes
were slit and the soil was removed mechanically, loaded into
conventional dump trucks and hauled to the local municipal
landfill for disposal.
Close up of TitanTubeTM geo-textile tubes and clean up the
Connor Creek, a creek feeding into the Detroit River.
