Editorial Articles

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,...

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...