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Maintaining Your Boom and Debris Tank
There are many components to a hydroexcavator. It all begins with what makes first contact with the material you’re tackling on the...
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Initiating Water Culture Through Water Clusters
In today’s volatile political arena, water is perhaps more important than it has ever been. And with new regulations and technological changes...
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Santa Clara Water District Keeps Steelhead Trout Moving
Thanks to the Santa Clara Valley Water District, fish can swim upstream again to spawn and will be able to do so...
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8 Tips for Vacuum Truck Shoppers
As demand for vacuum trucks increases and the lead time for taking delivery of new trucks rises to six months or more...
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Protect Trucks and Machines From Harsh Working Environments
Keeping your utility's trucks and power equipment clean can extend their life. But how far do you need to go? With today’s high-tech...
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Solving the Soil Challenges of Utility Locating
The job required locating shallow PVC gas lines, recalls Matt Crosby, environmental scientist and business development rep at Master Locators in Philadelphia....
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Becoming PACP Certified
Since first implemented in 2002, the Pipeline Assessment Certification Program has become the accepted method for municipalities, contractors, consultants and manufacturers to record...
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Does Public Outreach Reduce Impact?
When most people travel to a new city or town they look up and notice all the buildings, architecture, signage, and other...
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Ahoy! SoundGuardian Boosts Wastewater Work on Puget Sound
A new high-tech research vessel is helping wastewater professionals improve the safety, scope and efficiency of water-quality monitoring efforts in Washington’s Puget...
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Jetter Hose Repair 101
Sooner or later, operators who rigorously inspect their jetter hoses will discover a nick or cut that requires a repair. While taking...
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Trying to Reduce Stormwater Runoff? In Philly, There's an App for That
Philadelphia’s program that is striving to reduce stormwater runoff in the city recently added a new wrinkle. And it’s going to save...
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Maximizing Jetter Hose Life
How long will a typical jetter hose last? Answering that question is as easy as trying to estimate when a jetter’s pump...
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Top 10 Trends in Groundwater Contaminants
Nearly half of the U.S. population relies on groundwater as a drinking water source. That’s more than 140 million people, and about 45...
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Ghostbusters? How About Mud Chasers?
Everybody remembers the Ghostbusters, the 1980s film stars who tracked down ghosts in New York City.But Mud Chasers?It’s the name of a brand-new...
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Texas Water Utility Joins Fight Against Zika Virus
Mosquito control is nothing new to many cities, especially across the South, but the threat of the Zika virus is raising the...
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Rhinelander Streetscape Team Adapts to Surprises
An equipment operator lifts slabs of old concrete from a hidden room workers found below the sidewalk on South Brown Street while working...
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Tunneling in Paradise: Honolulu Progresses on Gravity Sewer Project
After 13 months of boring beneath the Oneawa Hills, contractors have holed through on a new wastewater tunnel that will connect the...
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City Finds Good in Old Pipe
Just a few blocks away from the brunt of the work on the Downtown Streetscape Project in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, sits a large...
























