Editorial Articles

The Blair Township Water and Sewer Authority sends wastewater to three area municipal treatment plants and is under a mandate from all...

The 9,000-square-foot Pipe and Valve Technology Institute training center opened in Lake Zurich, Ill. The center is offering programs in pipe cutting...

The GasAlertMax XT from BW Technologies/Honeywell International Inc. offers municipal workers a compact, lightweight, hand-held monitor with one-button operation for monitoring the...

Every drop counts. That’s the message behind Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Utilities’ proactive, keep-it-simple community outreach program that is helping its 220,000 households get...

Manual valve exercising is a time-consuming process, and one that poses risks of injury to employees and damage to valves. Valve-exercising technology...

No program has done more to help our industry improve consistency and com-munication in rehabilitations than NASSCO’s Pipeline Assessment and Certification Pro-gram...

The city of Mt. Lebanon, Pa., has a verdant landscape of tree-lined streets. But lush growth on top means deep root growth...

With a water system that dates back more than a century, the city of Monroe, Mich., has always had to pay attention...

This month’s issue of Municipal Sewer & Water contains yet another example of a public information program that “moved the needle” on...

What does a city wastewater department do when there are no crises to address? “The city council is focused on quality of...

Insituform Names Vice President and TreasurerKenneth L. Young has been named vice president and treasurer for Insituform Technologies Inc. He has 30...

The Blue-Tek CIPP system from Reline America Inc. is designed to offer municipalities a cost-effective, verifiable and environmentally safe method of trenchless...

Few things make supervisors and managers as squeamish as performance reviews. But like them or not, organizations that don’t take them seriously...

Lateral reinstatement is a critical part of cured-in-place pipe lining. The faster new lateral openings can be cut into the newly installed...

There is no better time than now to invest in training and certifications in the trenchless technology industry. While our new administration...

It’s been a decade of growth for the Green Bay (Wis.) Water Utility. The economy may have curtailed that some, but even...

In March, this column asked Municipal Sewer & Water readers to share their equivalent of what I called a “fire chief speech”...

Power outages lasting minutes to hours at the Nick C. DeGroot Water Treatment Plant in Oakdale, Calif., were causing treated water storage...

A few years ago, a sewer inspection contractor approached the King County Wastewater Treatment Division in Seattle, Wash., with an offer. The...