The team at El Toro Water District (ETWD) in Lake Forest, Calif., includes two professionals with a combined 61 years of experience...
Pipeline Rehabilitation and Relining
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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...
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Industry News - September 2010
AWWA, ASME-ITI Issue ANSI StandardThe American Water Works Association and American Society of Mechanical Engineers Innovative Technologies Institute have developed a...
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A Matter of Choice
Even the most successful door-to-door salesman would be envious of the sewer department in South Williamsport, Pa. The department is correcting a...
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Out of the Comfort Zone
The small community of Bay Village, Ohio, was doing everything it should in sewer maintenance: mainline inspection, regular cleaning, root control and...
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No More Overflows
Roots, inflow and infiltration (I&I) and calcium deposits had caused major backups for the El Toro Water District in Lake Forest, Calif.The...
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Building First-Stringers
Bench depth is just as valuable to business organizations as it is to sports teams. Just ask the senior management at the...