The water system in the City of Decatur serves a population of 79,000, but even more noteworthy is its thirsty base of...
Pipeline Rehabilitation and Relining
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Editorial
PowerGrit Tool Offers a More Efficient, Safer Way to Cut Pipe
The PowerGrit utility saw chain from ICS, Blount International, cuts ductile and cast-iron, PVC and HDPE pipe as well as pipe lining...
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Giving A Listen
The City of Kingsport, Tenn., estimated it was losing more than 1.2 million gallons of water, and associated revenue, to leaking pipes...
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Motor City Renaissance
Hammered by declining water sales, a declining population, fewer personnel, a shrinking industrial base, deteriorating infrastructure and rising costs, the Detroit Water...
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Leap of Faith
How will we know that your projections and expected benefits will play out?”That’s the question Brett Richards faced from the Ross Valley...
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Essential Players
The team at El Toro Water District (ETWD) in Lake Forest, Calif., includes two professionals with a combined 61 years of experience...
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Punching Through
Pipe bursting is one of several trenchless methods for replacing sewer laterals.Total project cost is not the sole factor in selecting the...
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Daily Progress
When Bob Donati started working forthe Department of Water and Wastewater Resources in Daly City, Calif., 23 years ago, sewer cameras were...
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Doubling Up
Located on the slopes of Montana’s Beartooth Mountains, Billings is a pioneer city in more ways than one. It is the only...
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Jaws of Ingenuity
The Operations and Maintenance Department of Rogue Valley Sewer Services, a sanitary authority in Central Point, Ore., used to summon the vacuum...
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Compliance Through Innovation
It’s a challenge servicing sanitary and storm sewersystems in a county comprising 616 square miles with a population of half a million.That’s...
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Industry News - October 2010
SPX Offers Wastewater Treatment BrochureSPX Flow Technology offers a water and wastewater brochure with information on SPX filters, mixers, pumps, analyzers, metering...
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Plotting the Course
Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) can be an efficient and environmentally friendly way to install underground utilities.However, the process becomes more difficult in...
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Keep it Flowing
There’s a word for traffic disruptions around Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania state capital: ugly. When two dual pipelines running deep beneath one of...
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Leave It to the Experts
The Wastewater Maintenance Section in the City of Glendale, Calif., has attacked the root of its sewer problems by letting the guys...
Blogs
Case in point: Impact of leaking laterals
A simulation of a minor rainstorm found that four times more stormwater would leak into sewer laterals in several neighborhoods in the...
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More with Less
Like many smaller cities, Conneaut, Ohio is looking to stretch its budget. At present, the Wastewater Department faces a systemwide video inspection...
