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In today’s workplace, employee performance follows the the Pareto Principle: 80 percent of employees fizzle, 20 percent sizzle. The 80 percent who...

The new camera inspection control system from Cobra Technologies is designed to combine portability with the full functionality of a truck-mounted system....

Data gathering and record keeping are critical components of an infrastructure maintenance program. Work crews must keep accurate and consistent records of...

The Blair Township Water and Sewer Authority sends wastewater to three area municipal treatment plants and is under a mandate from all...

No program has done more to help our industry improve consistency and com-munication in rehabilitations than NASSCO’s Pipeline Assessment and Certification Pro-gram...

The 9,000-square-foot Pipe and Valve Technology Institute training center opened in Lake Zurich, Ill. The center is offering programs in pipe cutting...

The GasAlertMax XT from BW Technologies/Honeywell International Inc. offers municipal workers a compact, lightweight, hand-held monitor with one-button operation for monitoring the...

Every drop counts. That’s the message behind Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) Utilities’ proactive, keep-it-simple community outreach program that is helping its 220,000 households get...

Manual valve exercising is a time-consuming process, and one that poses risks of injury to employees and damage to valves. Valve-exercising technology...

The city of Mt. Lebanon, Pa., has a verdant landscape of tree-lined streets. But lush growth on top means deep root growth...

With a water system that dates back more than a century, the city of Monroe, Mich., has always had to pay attention...

This month’s issue of Municipal Sewer & Water contains yet another example of a public information program that “moved the needle” on...

What does a city wastewater department do when there are no crises to address? “The city council is focused on quality of...

The 2008 EPA First Place Award for Stormwater Management Excellence went to Rogue Valley Sewer Services (RVS) of Central Point, Ore. Only...

A few years ago, a sewer inspection contractor approached the King County Wastewater Treatment Division in Seattle, Wash., with an offer. The...

Power outages lasting minutes to hours at the Nick C. DeGroot Water Treatment Plant in Oakdale, Calif., were causing treated water storage...

In March, this column asked Municipal Sewer & Water readers to share their equivalent of what I called a “fire chief speech”...