The Alaska city and borough of Juneau produces and distributes 1.2 billion gallons of water annually by drawing from separate and redundant...
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Noninvasive Water Pipe Data Collection
Entries Tagged Aging Infrastructure
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Water and Wastewater Infrastructure for Growth
The small town of LeRoy, Saskatchewan, has always believed that building and maintaining critical infrastructure is a prerequisite for growth — not...
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Maximizing Resources: Repurposing Old Equipment in Municipalities
As budgets tighten, municipalities are getting creative by repurposing older equipment instead of discarding it. Whether it's using aging vehicles for less...
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Meeting the Challenge of Sewer System Upgrades
For the last 20 years, the Sonoma Valley County Sanitation District has been methodically replacing the system’s sewer trunk main. The trunk...
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Lead Pipe Replacement: Overcoming Challenges in Aging Water Systems
Replacing lead pipes is a critical step toward ensuring safe, clean drinking water, but it’s no small task. Aging water infrastructure poses...
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A Robotic Approach to Sewer Maintenance
If there’s a lesson to be learned from the Yakima, Washington, sewer rehabilitation project, it’s that planning and communication are just as...
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Allocating the Resources for Sewer Improvements
Aging infrastructure and delayed maintenance can be problematic. Leadership in the city of New Britain (Connecticut) can testify from long and rather...
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Case Studies - Pipeline inspection, surveying and mapping
Assessment tool helps utility fulfill maintenance plan
Problem: Gainesville Regional Utilities maintains a 671-mile collections system that serves 67,000 customer connections around the city of...
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Stanford Researchers Propose New Metrics to Assess Water Affordability
Rising water prices in the U.S. are forcing many households to choose between rationing water or risking shutoff due to unpaid bills....
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Sliplining a Brick Stormwater Tunnel
There are large-diameter pipeline projects in which huge and heavy sections of pipe are wrestled and fitted into place. Then there are...
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Water Planning in Rural Communities
The Safe Drinking Water Act was established in 1974 to protect public health by regulating the nation’s public drinking water supply. For...
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Reducing Sewer Overflows in Baltimore
Like many older cities, Baltimore, Maryland, faces significant challenges in maintaining and improving its sewer and water infrastructure. However, the Baltimore City...
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Taking the Stress Out of Assessment
Some segments of Green Bay Water’s infrastructure are old — we’re talking 1882 old — but there is nothing yesteryear in the...
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Installing Pipe Below the Seafloor
To protect the city of Alameda’s water supply from potentially crippling damage during an earthquake, the East Bay Municipal Utility District recently...
