When Bob Donati started working forthe Department of Water and Wastewater Resources in Daly City, Calif., 23 years ago, sewer cameras were...
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Planning to Grow
While other areas are struggling in a down economy, the City of Killeen, Texas, has seen record economic growth, border expansion and...
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Out of the Comfort Zone
The small community of Bay Village, Ohio, was doing everything it should in sewer maintenance: mainline inspection, regular cleaning, root control and...
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Intelligent Planning
Software that can detect and filter e-mail spam incorporates a library of known spam characteristics, learns from user input and recognizes patterns....
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Conflict Avoidance
To operate efficiently, owners of subsurface utilities and surface infrastructure need to avoid conflicts during construction and repairs. Coordination between water, sewer...
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Home Cooking
The city of Ames, Iowa, is moving steadily toward a DIY approach in sewer line cleaning and inspection. As in: Do it...
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Made to Order
Dublin, Ohio, and Lee’s Summit, Mo., are two very different cities — the latter more than twice as large. Yet both apply...
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End to End
Digital information greatly simplifies and streamlines management of municipal and utility infrastructure. But sometimes the challenge is to integrate all the different...
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Badge of the Professional
When is a wastewater collections department a school? When it’s the Pure Waters Division of the Monroe County (N.Y.) Department of Environmental...
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Battle of the Blockage
The City of Cedar Rapids has reduced sanitary sewer backups by more than 80 percent — proof that its aggressive war on...
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SEWER: Open to Suggestion
Trenchless technology has opened up a world of opportunities for cost-effective wastewater infrastructure rehabilitation and life extension for the City of Nampa,...
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No Valve Left Behind
The water distribution crew at the Consolidated Utility District of Rutherford County, Tenn., is starting to sleep a little easier these nights.That’s...
