Editorial Articles

Salaries used to give employees plenty to talk about around the water coolers at the Tualatin Valley Water District in metropolitan Portland,...

Trenchless technologies for replacing water and sewer pipes — lining, pipe bursting and others — have become well established. For prospective users,...

I picked up The Washington Post just a few days after President Barack Obama was sworn in as our 44th president, and...

In New York state, the largest source of pollution is stormwater. It’s a problem more and more residents of Monroe County are...

Maintaining the distribution infrastructure is a critical challenge for the Halifax Regional Water Commission (HRWC), known locally as Halifax Water.The HRWC, centered...

The boa constrictor is one of the world’s most feared predators. Once it wraps around its prey, that’s the end.Contrary to myth,...

A 2 1/2-foot-deep sinkhole, 3 feet square, developed in Tacoma, Wash., when soil eroded under a 115-kV transmission tower after a cookie...

LMK Launches New Web SiteLMK Enterprises Inc. has launched its new Web site, www.performance liner.com. The site offers online product brochures, installation...

The Sewer Jet 700 from John Bean Sprayers offers municipalities an advanced trailer-mounted waterjetter that is powerful, durable and easy to operate.“This...

In many organizations, great ideas can be doomed by four simple words: Let’s form a committee. Not in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County....

Truck-mounted vacuum and jetting systems are essential tools in sewer maintenance and can be adapted with relative ease for hydroexcavation. Yet for...

Our industry is lucky: We have a consistent silver lining during these cloudy economic times. Some may differ, but I believe consent...

Part way into an ambitious project to end combined sewer overflows (CSOs), the City of Lansing decided to make it even more...

Like many midsized cities, Haines City, Fla. (population 14,000), must struggle to get the most possible out of a limited budget. Meanwhile,...

This issue of Municipal Sewer & Water contains another story about a smaller community with forward-looking infrastructure managers who could be even...

To educate people about stormwater pollution and influence their behaviors, officials in Chittenden County, Vt., took a unified, collaborative approach that includes...

Like many historic districts, Old Town in Albuquerque, N.M., was struggling with its aging infrastructure. Hydrogen sulfide had eroded the reinforced concrete...

PipeHunter Designer John Stoneman Sr. DiesJohn Stoneman Sr., designer of the PipeHunter line of municipal sewer equipment, died Dec. 30, 2008, at...

Changing the culture of an organization can be like trying to turn an aircraft carrier: It takes a long time, and progress...