The silent features along the pipeline routes area as given below:

Sr No. Description Unit Quantity

1 Length Km 48,537
2 Railway Crossing Nos. 4
3 State Highway Nos. 1
4 Road Nos. 81
5 River/Creek Nos. 4
6 SV Stations Nos. 3
7 Nala/Drain Nos. 14

Pipeline Burial:

The pipeline shall be buried normally at a depth of 1.5 meter below natural ground level except
river/rail/road/ canal/water crossings where minimum cover shall be as given below or as per the
requirements of statutory/local authorities whichever is more stringent. Increased cover shall be
provided at critical locations and at crossings.

The pipeline shall be laid underground with minimum cover for various locations and crossings as
given below:

Sr No. Location Minimum Cover (m)

1 Industrial, commercial, 1.5
residential, cultivated,
agricultural and barren areas
2 Rocky Terrain 1.2
3 Minor water crossings/ canal/ 2.0 (for normal soil)
drain/ nala/ stream 1.2 (for rocky strata)
4 River crossings by HDD ( below 2.5
Scour depth )
5 Canal crossing by HDD (below 4.0
bed)
6 Cased/ uncased road crossing/ 1.5
station approach
7 Cased railway crossing 1.7
8 Marshy land and Creek area 2.0
(below bed)

Elastic Bending Radius

Contractor shall maintain following minimum elastic bend radius during installation of pipeline in the
mainline crossings.

Sr No. Pipeline OD (inch/mm) Minimum Elastic Bending

Radius (m)
1 18” 600

CROSSINGS

RAILWAY CROSSINGS
Pipeline at railway crossings shall be provided with a casing pipe.

The casing pipe shall be the 3 types the nominal pipe sizes larger than carrier pipe and shall be
installed by boring/jacking.

Casing pipe shall be internally coated with two component epoxy coating wherever required by
statutory authorities.

In such case, carrier pipe shall be protected with zince ribbon anodes.

Casing pipes shall be extended for a distance of 0.6m beyond the ROW limits of railways on either
side.