Built by People: A New Crew Brings Lateral Lining In-House

In Baltimore City, a Spiniello crew did something the company had never done in-house before. They lined sewer laterals and sealed the connections where the city's mainlines meet the service lines that branch off them. It is the kind of work that keeps groundwater and debris out of the system, and it marks the launch of a new capability for Spiniello.

Here is what that means in plain terms. Where a lateral ties into a mainline, the joint between them is one of the most common places for leaks and infiltration. Left unsealed, groundwater seeps in, overloads the pipe, and adds to the volume the city has to move and treat. The crew installed a seal at that connection, rehabilitating the tie between mainline and lateral so the line runs the way it should. For Baltimore City, that means less infiltration and a system that holds up.

The hard part was not only in the ground. This was a brand-new process for everyone on the crew. Getting the submittals approved and training a team on a method none of them had run before took patience and repetition. No one on the job had done lateral lining prior to this project.

What carried it was good leadership and good training. Foreman James Chandler and Superintendent Michael Peddicord ran the crew, and every one of the newer hands learned lateral lining from scratch on this job. The whole team stood out, precisely because the work was new to all of them, and they picked it up together.

“This job matters beyond the one connection. Baltimore City depends on this infrastructure staying tight, and every sealed lateral is one less place for infiltration to fill the system. For Spiniello, it is also a step toward performing more of our work in-house and closer to being fully self-perform.”

The result speaks for itself: it turned out better than the crew expected, and the job wrapped in April 2026.