* If
there is water or debris in your pipe, it will not yield a good profile. Please clean your pipe before we get there.
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If you are overly generous with your application of mastic in RCP joints and it oozes out into the pipe, it can result
in a damming effect causing sediment and water to build up . . . this will not yield a good profile.
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PennDOT prefers manufactured lift hole plugs and may fail RCP where rocks have been used in the lift hole.
* Current joint tolerances are .25 inch per 12" of pipe diameter.