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How Does Pipe Pigging Work?
Maintaining system capacity, environmental compliance, and a high level of service for customers are essential for municipal water and wastewater system operators....
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Sea Level Rise Drives Wastewater Leakage to Coastal Waters
When people think of sea level rise, they usually think of coastal erosion. However, recent computer modeling studies indicate that coastal wastewater...
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Connecticut Sewer District Seeks Integrated Approach to Solve Overflows
On your average sunny day in West Hartford, Connecticut, approximately 8 million gallons of water flows through the sanitary sewer system on...
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Drones to Predict Where Water Pipes Are At Risk of Bursting
With leaking and burst water pipes costing water authorities and consumers time and money, as well as wasting a precious resource, researchers...
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One California Community Shows How to Take the Waste Out of Water
Caught between climate change and multi-year droughts, California communities are tapping groundwater and siphoning surface water at unsustainable rates.
As this year's below-average...
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Reshaping Your Workplace Culture
There’s a lot of emphasis these days on building a great workplace culture. Unfortunately, doing so is a lot like following through...
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Good Customer Service Can Lead to Higher Profits, Even for Public Utilities Without Competition
In Lily Tomlin’s classic SNL comedy sketch, her telephone operator “Ernestine” famously delivers the punchline, “We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re...
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Questions to Ask Before Investing in New Tech
Advances in tool technology are happening at a rapid pace, and that brings the opportunity to buy new tools more frequently than...
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Pipe Lining Innovation Allows Liners to Cure Unattended
Lining one or two sewer laterals in a day would be considered great production by anyone’s standards in the trenchless pipe rehab...
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Seeing I&I: How to Establish an Advanced Flow Monitoring Program
As sanitary sewer overflows become less tolerated by state and federal agencies, more utilities are turning to advanced flow monitoring programs to...
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New Tool Projects High-Tide Flooding in U.S. Coastal Locations
A new tool to help decision makers and others assess how sea-level rise and other factors will affect the frequency of high-tide...
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Salt Awareness Week in Wisconsin Examines Environmental Damage Caused by Road Salt
It doesn't just disappear. The salt we use every winter — more than 525,000 tons of it in Wisconsin — washes into our...
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Buyer Beware: A Used Construction Equipment Checklist
Buyers can find significant savings when purchasing used construction equipment. “Demand is strong for machines with low hours and a manufacturer warranty,”...



















