Aging Infrastructure Articles

The latest four-year infrastructure report card from the American Society of Civil Engineers gives improving marks to the country’s water and wastewater infrastructure, but there is still a long way to go.

A competition has launched to help bring new ideas for problems faced by utilities in the Lake Erie Basin.

In this week’s news briefs, Milwaukee’s longtime water superintendent leaves for a job in Maine, and New York lawmakers push for a bill that would create a formula-based program for distributing water and sewer infrastructure funds.

After five years of drought, California has been inundated by snow and rain. Good, right? Not necessarily, say climate experts.

In this week’s news briefs, proposed legislation in Wisconsin aims to ease the burden on customers paying for their portion of lead service line replacements, and a recent study says New Jersey utilities are losing one-third of their treated drinking water through leaky pipes.

In this week’s news briefs, bills are moving through the Indiana Senate and House aimed at addressing the state’s costly water infrastructure issues, and the city of Edmonton begins a comprehensive review of the safety culture for its municipal workers.

The February 2017 Municipal Sewer & Water cover story focuses on an 18-year, $500 million effort undertaken by the city of Toledo, Ohio, to upgrade infrastructure and cut down on the amount of sewer overflows.

To stay on track with the Rhinelander Downtown Streetscape Project, Kruczek Construction had to think both short term and long term, as well as stay flexible.

In this week’s news briefs, the latest round of sampling in Flint shows lead concentrations are below the federal action level, and officials in Fraser, Michigan, project the massive Christmas Eve sinkhole could cost $100 million to fix.

President Donald Trump has promised to make clean water a high priority, but what exactly can we expect from his administration?

A Michigan State University study is one of the first to delve into the issue of water affordability in the U.S.

Omaha deals with record number of water main breaks in December

Most of the Fraser, Michigan, residents who were evacuated Christmas Eve are back in their homes, but months of repair work are ahead.

Officials suspect a leaky sewer main is the culprit and it wouldn’t be the first time.