Editorial Articles

By using a little Yankee ingenuity, the City of Saco, on Maine’s southern coast, has made significant pro-gress toward eliminating combined sewer...

EPA regulations have significantly reduced stormwater runoff pol-lution from industry and agriculture. The remaining battleground in many areas is urban runoff —...

I recently heard an AM radio talk show host ranting about how one political party wants to raise taxes and how terrible...

Installing large, vertical vault stormwater filtration devices in relatively flat terrain with minimal elevation fall has always been difficult.When faced with that...

The turbulent spots in your wastewater collection system are directly linked to the rate at which your system will decay and the...

NASSCO has taken two more steps befitting an organization dedicated to setting the standards for the rehabilitation of underground utilities. A new...

Manhole repair can be complex and time-consuming. Many manholes develop leaks in the chimney area, which is subject to wear from the...

Humor in today’s workplace isn’t always a laughing matter. In fact, the jokes that used to make you a hero around the...

Under the right conditions, the City of Wausau, Wis., uses slip-lining as an alternative to cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) lining to rehabilitate aging...

Point repair crews from the Atlantic Beach (Fla.) Public Works Department had made several repairs to the road and inlets at either...

An estuary is an area where a river meets and mixes with the sea, and is influenced by changing tides, temperatures and...

If you don’t set goals and have a 10-year plan and strategy, you’re just treading water. Budgets are great. But numbers aren’t...

In my newspaper reporting days I once saw a sign in a town hall that compared the price of water to beverages...

Association NewsCollection Systems ConferenceThe Water Environment Federation is sponsoring Collection Systems: Regional Planning for Compliance — The Future with Multi-Jurisdictional Organizations on...

Sometimes, the best solution to a problem is to turn the problem into the solution.That may be the case with stormwater runoff...

When the protective coating on steel water and gas pipelines starts to deteriorate, corrosion isn’t far behind. But trying to locate those...

Five years ago, only a crystal ball could have shown how quickly NASSCO would grow. At the time, our headquarters office space...

Few managers relish calling out an employee for poor performance. The reasons can vary, but the outcome is always the same —...

Water entering the basement of a school in downtown Chicago, Ill., was the first clue the Chicago Water Department had that something...