Infrastructure

The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act will provide low-cost loans for water projects at the state and local level.

Browse the latest products exclusively for the municipal sewer and water industry.

In this week’s news briefs, the EPA is receiving feedback about a new rule that would affect how utilities provide public notification about CSO discharges into the Great Lakes, and a Louisiana city is preparing to make a final push to fix infrastructure still affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Omaha deals with record number of water main breaks in December

Most of the Fraser, Michigan, residents who were evacuated Christmas Eve are back in their homes, but months of repair work are ahead.

Learn more about the process of grouting as a low-cost alternative to pipeline and manhole rehabilitation and to stop leaky joints.

Officials suspect a leaky sewer main is the culprit and it wouldn’t be the first time.

The utility plans on targeting 2,000 lines per year.

In this week’s news briefs, Flint, Michigan, finally gets the federal aid that has been held up in Congress, and a Florida city fires its water utility director following a sewage disaster.

A single manhole failure inspires Arizona utility to upgrade its manhole inspection protocol and lower infrastructure life cycle costs.

There’s so much to be learned in the stories of other utilities’ failures and successes.