Editorial Articles

Lift stations contain the pumps, valves and electrical equipment necessary to move sewage from low to high elevation, making them an essential...

Hydroexcavation has been popular in Canada for 50 years, but it only started gaining traction in the U.S. about 15 years ago....

In the August issue of Municipal Sewer & Water I shared how NASSCO provides unbiased support to all technologies equally, and discussed...

The next time you conduct a job interview, keep in mind this startling — and sobering — statistic from a recent U.S....

Expo visitors looking for an accurate way to measure industrial vacuum and hydroexcavating waste found it in the Acculevel load sensor system...

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Efficiency is something we could all use more of. Everyone would like to get more done with less time, energy and money. As...

Before Larry Parsons arrived at the City of Coeur d’Alene (Idaho) Collection System de-partment, maintenance work was done only when needed —...

It’s a simple rule. You can’t maintain what you have unless you know what you have — and what shape it’s in....

The goal of the City of Santa Rosa Utilities Department is to maximize resources (water, biosolids, digester gas and nutrients) while striving...

California’s Lake Arrowhead Community Services District is located in the San Bernardino Mountains, 90 miles east of Los Angeles. The resort area...

Concrete pressure pipe has been a go-to material for water and wastewater projects for almost 90 years. While it has one of the...

The effective and responsible management of stormwater runoff has become an important part of the job description for most municipal sewer and...

PEOPLE/AWARDSCharleston County (S.C.) Public Works, Transportation Development and Facilities Departments were awarded full accreditation on May 10. Charleston County’s three departments joined...

The Operations Challenge, a competition that combines five equally weighed skills tests in collections, laboratory, maintenance, process control and safety events, is...

Rain for Rent partners with MobyDickRain for Rent, provider of temporary liquid handling systems, has partnered with MobyDick, provider of wheel wash...

It doesn’t take a string-theory physicist to understand a basic management truth: Employees who feel they’re recognized and rewarded for their work...

Amid all the ongoing talk of the $16 trillion national deficit, the soft economy and high unemployment rates, there comes another number...

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