Editorial Articles

The 2008 EPA First Place Award for Stormwater Management Excellence went to Rogue Valley Sewer Services (RVS) of Central Point, Ore. Only...

Geospatial Teams with HEBCO on Naval ProjectGeospatial Mapping Systems Inc. has entered into an agreement with HEBCO Inc. on the U.S. Navy’s...

Remote pipeline inspections call for cameras that have long cable range and reduce the number of setups. The K2 Series portable CCTV...

The next time you get your staff together for a meeting, be careful about who you look at. Without uttering a single...

Utility locating combines science with art. Among the biggest challenges is locating nonmetallic structures, such as plastic pipes installed without tracer wires...

Municipal and utility managers are well aware of the American Recovery and Reinvest-ment Act (the Stimulus Bill), which President Obama signed into...

Faced with a big stormwater pollution prevention task at a U.S. EPA Superfund site and a limited staff to do the work,...

When our vision becomes a reality, we experience that feeling of success, knowing we can reach our goals. This sets us on...

Municipalities and contractors face difficult decisions when purchasing pipe inspection equipment. There is more involved than comparing features and initial purchase price....

"Data is useless if you’re not using it."So says Bill Roseberry, sewer superintendent with the Maintenance Services Department in the City of...

Your Highway Tax Dollars at Work.”I remember seeing those words in bold letters on signs years ago as my family passed through...

Outsourcing may be the rage in private industry and in muni-cipal services, but in Northern California, the Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District has found...

Huge numbers of large paper rags flushing into the Johnson County wastewater (JCW) collection system in Olathe, Kan., were playing havoc with...

Trying to meet wastewater conveyance and treatment needs without accurate flow monitoring is a little like trying to find your way in...

Cloverleaf Tool Names Rawlings General Manager Kevin Rawlings has been promoted to general manager for Cloverleaf Tool Co. Rawlings has 12 years...

The Stingray open channel flow logger from Greyline Instruments Inc. enables technicians to monitor wastewater velocity and flow without entering manholes.“A sewer...

In a manner of speaking, employees of Austin Water Utility treatment plants used to work in silos. They operated as independent entities,...

Pipe inspection software continues to get more sophisticated. Features that allow the recording of data while a video inspection proceeds have become...

Facing the problems of sewer lines more than 100 years old, and network maps used to service them just as ancient, the...