The new year is upon us, and here’s hoping all of you make it through 2019 safely.
One of the stories in this issue of Municipal Sewer & Water focuses on the efforts the Houston Wastewater Operations team has made to recover, rebuild and improve its systems after Hurricane Harvey devastated the city in 2017.
Houston’s wastewater system is one of the nation’s largest, and the damage was significant: treatment plants underwater, significant portions of the collections system totally flooded for nearly a week, and lift stations completely submerged. Across the area, treatment plants and systems in as many as 11
