Sewer and Drain Cleaning

Sanitary sewer overflows (SSO) in Jacksonville, Fla., were a problem for JEA, the municipal utilities provider.The authority had invested in a SCADA...

Louisiana FS Solutions Center Adds Guzzler PartsFederal Signal Environmental Solutions Group’s FS Solutions center in Gonzales, La., now stocks parts for Federal...

Long established as pipe inspection tools, sewer cameras continue to be refined. In 2001, Aries Industries introduced the ThermaView camera, the first...

Roots, inflow and infiltration (I&I) and calcium deposits had caused major backups for the El Toro Water District in Lake Forest, Calif.The...

Heavy rains were over-whelming the Vallejo (Calif.) Sanitation and Flood Control District sewers and bypass systems, sending untreated sewage into San Francisco...

The city of Ames, Iowa, is moving steadily toward a DIY approach in sewer line cleaning and inspection. As in: Do it...

Dublin, Ohio, and Lee’s Summit, Mo., are two very different cities — the latter more than twice as large. Yet both apply...

SPIR STAR Opens Mexico Repair Center, Launches Web SiteSPIR STAR has named Comuniv S.A. de C.V., Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, as an authorized...

McElroy Adds Build and Price Internet FeatureMcElroy has added a build and price feature to its Web site, www.mcelroy.com. The feature...

When it rains in St. Petersburg, it pours. But the sewer system no longer overflows the way it used to, and manhole...

The Jefferson Street Pump Station in Centralia, Wash., handles one-third of the city’s sewage from six other pump stations and a 24-inch...

John Cox approaches stormwater problems the same way they were created: little by little. As grant manager for the Think About Personal...

The City of Cedar Rapids has reduced sanitary sewer backups by more than 80 percent — proof that its aggressive war on...

The Georgia Association of Water Professionals (GAWP) gives two major awards every year: Water Distribution System of the Year, and Wastewater Collection...

Private sewer laterals are a major source of infiltration in many communities. Inspecting those pipes can be a chore, because in many...

Trenchless technology has opened up a world of opportunities for cost-effective wastewater infrastructure rehabilitation and life extension for the City of Nampa,...

FOG can be a big problem in San Francisco — not the misty kind that famously blankets the City by the Bay,...