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With billions of dollars in federal stimulus money available to rehabilitate aging sewer systems, municipalities will face issues in trying to keep...

For a long time I was trying to be the last person on earth not to have a cell phone — sort...

In a city as “flat as a pancake,” 6,250 miles of sanitary sewer is a recipe for trouble. The main ingredient in...

When five inches of rainfall in a two-hour period revealed that its system’s stream conflicts were more significant than originally thought, Johnson...

I must comment on the wisdom of using videotapes to store pipe-line inspaction data (“Rooting for the Future” article, MSW, August 2009)....

What began as a NASSCO member benefit nearly two decades ago has become a gift to the entire trenchless technology industry. Since...

When maintenance crews popped the lid to inspect one of the 12 pumping stations for the Pasadena Park Irrigation District #17 in...

Clogged with tons of debris accumulated during more than 10 years of inattention, a network of large concrete box culverts posed a...

Since 2006, the City of Alexandria, Va., has been aggressively rehabilitating its sanitary sewers to address infiltration and inflow. With the bar...

Positioned between Lansing and Saginaw in central Michigan, Corunna was a small town with big problems. For more than 30 years, its...

Settlement, circumferential and radial cracking, holes, and asphalt separating from around poorly adjusted manhole frames were a way of life in Kelowna,...

Walking through ankle-deep sewage backed up in a restaurant convinced Jim Faulkner, who was spending his first week as supervisor of the...

State governments are running huge deficits. The federal budget includes enormous spending increases and deficits of unprecedented size. Social Security and Medicare...

Manholes are vital components of the wastewater infrastructure. In recent years, inventive manufacturers have developed accessories that improve on the basic structure...

It seems every time I pick up a newspaper in the past few months, the word I see is “stimulus,” or some...

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

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....