Los Angeles residents and neighboring communities rely on a complex network of reservoirs, canals and pipelines that bring water from the wetter...
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Entries Tagged Aging Infrastructure
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A Lesson in Plant Building: Involve the Community
Charlotte Water needed to build a new clean-water plant to serve one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States.
Two older plants...
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Preserving Water and Wastewater Infrastructure
A water main breaks every two minutes in the United States, famously spilling enough water each year to fill over 9,000 swimming...
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When Communities Face Drinking-Water Crises, Bottled Water Is a ‘Temporary’ Solution That Often Lasts Years and Worsens Inequality
A massive intrusion of salt water into the Mississippi River recently left the tap water in several Louisiana communities unsafe to drink...
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Choosing CIPP Resins
Cured-in-place pipe lining has been around for more than 50 years. However, fumes emanating from styrene-based resins in the linings have concerned...
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Free Lead Service Line Replacement
While most cities in the United States don’t pay for the entire cost of replacing private lead water-service lines, which have been...
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Engineering a Better System
Sioux Falls sits in the southeast corner of South Dakota. The Big Sioux River flows through the city, giving the city its...
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New Life for Pumping Stations
At the foot of Grandview Drive, which Teddy Roosevelt famously dubbed “the world’s most beautiful drive,” Greater Peoria Sanitary District engineers are...
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California Utility Uses Creativity to Combat Manhole Infiltration
Living in paradise is demanding for anyone charged with keeping it unpolluted. That’s the responsibility given to Blake Tresan, general manager and...
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Reliable Risk Mitigation
Utility managers across the United States are tasked with making their systems more resilient to deal with climate change and aging infrastructure...
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Systemwide Approach
The Upper Montgomery Joint Authority’s infrastructure was aging, and a combination of substantial inflow and infiltration along with increased frequency of weather...
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How This Military Boom Town Maintains Its Unusual, Aging Infrastructure
In 1943, the U.S. Army purchased the small town of Richland, Washington, and its surrounding area to build a nuclear production complex....
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EPA Announces First Distribution of Infrastructure Law Funding to 18 States
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently awarded Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to the first 18 states across the country for water infrastructure...
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Ridding the System of Lead
“Get the lead out” is an idiomatic expression meaning to hurry or speed up the pace of work. The expression applies doubly...
