Editorial Articles

When five inches of rainfall in a two-hour period revealed that its system’s stream conflicts were more significant than originally thought, Johnson...

In a city as “flat as a pancake,” 6,250 miles of sanitary sewer is a recipe for trouble. The main ingredient in...

For a long time I was trying to be the last person on earth not to have a cell phone — sort...

With billions of dollars in federal stimulus money available to rehabilitate aging sewer systems, municipalities will face issues in trying to keep...

Clogged with tons of debris accumulated during more than 10 years of inattention, a network of large concrete box culverts posed a...

Pat’s Pump Named Florida Allianz Sweeper DealerPat’s Pump & Blower LLC has been named Florida dealer for Allianz Sweeper Co./Madvac Inc., producer...

The trailer-mounted Hi-Flow Ultimate Warrior jetter from Spartan Tool LLC is designed for small municipalities and use in large sewers. “This jetter...

Have you ever found your-self endlessly obsessing over an issue, unable to move beyond it? When dealing with a problem or potential...

Sewer jet-vacuum truck oper-ators often have a number of control points to attend to as they reel water jet hoses in and...

Since 2006, the City of Alexandria, Va., has been aggressively rehabilitating its sanitary sewers to address infiltration and inflow. With the bar...

Positioned between Lansing and Saginaw in central Michigan, Corunna was a small town with big problems. For more than 30 years, its...

The new camera inspection control system from Cobra Technologies is designed to combine portability with the full functionality of a truck-mounted system....

In today’s workplace, employee performance follows the the Pareto Principle: 80 percent of employees fizzle, 20 percent sizzle. The 80 percent who...

Data gathering and record keeping are critical components of an infrastructure maintenance program. Work crews must keep accurate and consistent records of...

It seems every time I pick up a newspaper in the past few months, the word I see is “stimulus,” or some...

Manholes are vital components of the wastewater infrastructure. In recent years, inventive manufacturers have developed accessories that improve on the basic structure...

State governments are running huge deficits. The federal budget includes enormous spending increases and deficits of unprecedented size. Social Security and Medicare...

Walking through ankle-deep sewage backed up in a restaurant convinced Jim Faulkner, who was spending his first week as supervisor of the...

Settlement, circumferential and radial cracking, holes, and asphalt separating from around poorly adjusted manhole frames were a way of life in Kelowna,...