Pipe Pressure Withstand

What color is the pipe? Is the hole facing down or up or on the side? Are you willing to stand in front of the hole during test? There's your answer....

The hole is on top it is 3/4" deep and 1" diameter It is Black HDPE DR11. Where can I find the encroachment of minimum wall ? I believe B31.1 states 12.5% of the wall is max encroachment.

.... between eight percent and 12.5 percent of the pipe wall, depending on pipe size, type, and grade....

16" DR11 1.455 wall thickness.

Alarm, dual identity Paddy is Persius!

The gods must like you!

Is penetration in the inside diameter or outside diameter?

Not that it matters.

No guarantee of any kind would be my answer, regardless.

It is up to the supplier of the pipe and the controlling local, state, and national permitting agencies.

It is wonderful what can happen on these pages.

Lo and behold, Persius has answered his own question, his pipe doesn't meet code!

What is "hydrostatic design stress"? What about the 60 psig design pressure? What pressure are you actually applying?

At 60 psig internal pressure, the material stress on the remaining 0.705" wall is about 550 psi.

Being HDPE pipe any competent plastics welder should be able to fix that just as any metal welder would fix a metal pipe with a similar issue.

It will, provided:

1. An appropriately-rated proprietary repair kit is applied to the affected area, or
2. The affected area is cut out and an appropriately-rated proprietary joint piece is used to couple the two ends back together, or
3. It has been tested hydraulically to some measure of safety. 1.5 times maximum working pressure for the temperature of operation seems appropriate as a first suggestion although the pipe manufacturer will have published a temperature/pressure ratings table and a test protocol that need to be followed. In the event of it failing during that test, apply either no.1 or no.2 above.

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Not enuf info...!!! "My question is will I have to repair or replace and if not what is the guaranteed life in the condition it is in?"

Guaranteed life for WHAT application?!?

Neither you, nor anyone else has provided an answer to WHAT CLASS is "ESDO"...?

Water piping is NOT subject to the same Standards / Codes as piping that will carry gas, oil, or other hazardous liquids.

Much less, if it's simply a dang "drainage" type of line, who cares a bleep!

As I'm sure lyn would agree (and many others as well), try a simple google search, and, "pick-an-expert" ... like, for example, try contacting someone who's worked with such line, and ask them, before bringing LOTS of specs and "useful details" to a forum such as this, for a more exhaustive analysis...

Don't MAKE EVERYONE GUESS ! (cuz guaranteed , they WILL...!)

Thank you all for your input. I appreciate it.

Per AWWA C906-07 DR 11 regular PE3408 pipe has a "maximum working pressure rating" of 160 psi at temperatures that do not exceed 80 degrees F. (less at higher temp.), and drilling a 1" hole about halfway through its wall at any location will not strengthen it, but instead create a point of localized stress concentration. Does that answer the question?

Yes and thank you. This issue has been resolved as of 7-14-13

Well, what happened on 7/14/13? Did the pipe blow up, or not?

No

[I think what may have thrown at least some of us off here was the use of the acronym "psig" (I believe normally referring to gauge pressure) in the OP, as well as "hydrostatic" in the restatement, when I think it was probably meant that the 699-700 referred instead to a stress level in the wall.]