March 2012 Issue of Municipal Sewer & Water

Former electrician Randy Mather brings a can-do attitude and a customer-service mindset to the wastewater collection program in Olathe, Kan.

A semi-structural polyurea coating helps an Ohio city repair a culvert in a high-traffic business district without disruptive excavation

A new ASCE report spells out in dollars and cents terms why our nation must make up the shortfall of investment in water and sewer infrastructure

Radiodetection Names California, Nevada Distributor; Environmental Products CEO Completes Triathlon; Aries Unveils New Brand, Logo; Rainwater Launches Product Website; SEKISUI Acquires Rabmer Pipe Rehabilitation

Inspector Training and Certification Program (ITCP) extends its reach to include manhole inspection and renovation and pipe bursting

Featured new products.

One-piece nozzles from USB-Sewer Equipment Corp.

A Georgia city implements marketing and branding tactics like those used by top sales professionals to gain public support for a stormwater utility

California’s Western Municipal Water District is leveraging an enterprise software license agreement to bring efficiencies to all aspects of operations

A new approach to predicting wet-weather sanitary sewer flows incorporates antecedent moisture information and actual long-term rainfall data

The ML-3 magnetic locators from SubSurface Instruments prove easy to operate and accurate in finding ferrous metal objects

A city and its union reach a compromise that supports training and certification, giving wastewater employees more stature and the utility more work flexibility

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