Infrastructure

SPIR STAR Opens Mexico Repair Center, Launches Web Site; Hydraulic Institute Recognizes Atchia; Fairmount Launches Water Treatment Web Site

McElroy Adds Build and Price Internet Feature; Sewage, Wastewater Construction at Record Levels; ADS Acquires StormTech LLC; SPIR STAR Promotes Blalock to Outside Sales Rep

Accela Asset Management lets government agencies and utilities manage multiple functions in a single, integrated software package

Wastewater collections system operators in Monroe County, N.Y., go to school to improve their skills and earn certification in their specialty

The City of Duluth battles unique hillside topography in a productive effort to stamp out sanitary sewer overflows and comply with a consent decree

Dresser Supplies Blower Packages for Egyptian Water Project; Godwin Pumps Names; USB-Sewer Equipment Recognizes Top Distributors; Vacall Forms Partnership, Names Dealer; Vanair Hires Director of Purchasing

Progressive stormwater management practices in Dane County, Wis., help protect the area’s urban lakes as well as small trout streams

New Castle County takes an aggressive approach to sewer maintenance with an eye toward main rehabilitations that will last 100 years

High-density polyethylene pipe provides the answer to the challenge of replacing and upsizing a sewer interceptor beneath an Oregon lake

Centrifugal chopper pumps in a major lift station put an end to frequent plugging that drove up costs and threatened SSOs

Marietta Water has earned repeated First Place awards for excellence in quality and service, using ordinary tactics, executed with great finesse

Many wastewater collection system technicians have had this experience: You need to inspect a line, or set up a skid for waterjet cleaning, but from your vantage point in the street you can’t confidently tell if the pipe is 6-inch or 8-inch. And you’d rather not perform a confined-space entry to go down the manhole and use a tape measure.