Editorial Articles

Cleaning fat, oil, and grease blockages from sewers in Sierra Vista, Ariz., was an unending nightmare for Hector Hagele. He swore that...

Situated at the confluence of the Santa Margarita River with Murrieta and Temecula Creeks, the City of Temecula, Calif., acts like a...

Akey challenge in sanitary sewer flow monitoring has been turning flow information from multiple field devices in scattered locations into readily actionable...

Clear, simple and thorough directions — we all want them. Then why are they so hard to give, and so hard to...

People The Springfield Township (Pa.) Environmental Advisory Committee was recognized by the Chester-Ridley-Crum Watersheds Association for its two projects that are designed to...

A service call to unblock an 8-inch gravity main fed by a 6-inch force main packed a surprise for the Gwinnett County...

A road maintenance crew in northern Ontario has found that a stream of well-aimed high-pressure water from a fire department pumper may...

System lines potable water pipes Problem A shopping center in Zanesville, Ohio, had a break in the copper water pipe running beneath the building...

The 32nd annual Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo International, the biggest annual trade show for the environmental services industry, is moving to...

Rodney Atkins rose from a hardscrabble beginning as a sickly orphan to the heights of country music stardom, producing back-to-back Billboard top...

Bad grades on an infrastructure report card are disturbing. Having the United States called “second rate” in terms of infrastructure is, or...

Elgin Equipment Group Acquires Cook Legacy Coating Elgin Equipment Group acquired Cook Legacy Coating Co., designer of water intake structures. Cook’s core products...

Last month we looked back at NASSCO’s many accomplishments in 2011, including re-certification initiatives for users and trainers of the Pipeline Assessment...

Field sleeves Field sleeves from A-LOK can be grouted in an existing manhole to create watertight connections. The sleeves can be used in...

RIDGID Offers One-Touch Digital MonitorThe one-touch SeeSnake CS10 digital monitor from RIDGID records video and still images. The unit features image playback...

The Super Energy Efficient 4-cubic-yard self-contained compactor from Wastequip holds up to 24 bags of trash in its charge box, twice the...

The Arlington (Texas) Water Utilities Department has always been an early adopter of technology. In the mid-1990s, the department launched a project...

Sixteen years ago, the wastewater collection system in Longview, Texas, was aging badly. The city had been financing maintenance and line replacement...

Last May the City of Tacoma (Wash.) Public Works began an ambitious project to inspect the condition and sediment load in every...