Entries Tagged Inflow and Infiltration (I&I)

Sewer overflow issues finally came to a head for the Metropolitan District (Hartford, Connecticut) in the early 2000s. The Metropolitan District, a nonprofit...

Fighting inflow and infiltration is a never-ending challenge, but that doesn’t mean it’s a hopeless endeavor. Taylors (South Carolina) Fire and Sewer District...

In early May, Fulton County (Georgia) Public Works had its first true test. A storm hit the area, producing 6 inches of rain...

Neither gravity nor vacuum can solve every sewer problem. In York County, Virginia, they play an equal role in providing safe collections...

Water leaks. Wastewater leaks. Infiltration. Indianola, Iowa, has experienced all of it, but the utility is gaining ground. The City’s Water Pollution Control...

Rich Cummings is one of the industry’s most passionate advocates for inflow and infiltration (I&I) mitigation. Slated to retire this fall in...

Making the switch from a purely septic-based wastewater handling model to a publicly owned and operated vacuum sewer system solved problems for...

On your average sunny day in West Hartford, Connecticut, approximately 8 million gallons of water flows through the sanitary sewer system on...

Some people search for solutions. Some people create them. Count Roger Bissonnette firmly among the latter. Bissonnette, a civil engineer and trenchless rehabilitation...

We know from the US-EPA, nearly half the flow to treatment facilities nationwide is clean groundwater. That means twice the cost to...

Inflow and infiltration is a slow, costly crisis for wastewater systems. In most cases, it cannot be traced to a single major...

As sanitary sewer overflows become less tolerated by state and federal agencies, more utilities are turning to advanced flow monitoring programs to...

Leaking manholes are a problem for every wastewater utility. Cretex Specialty Products has been providing solutions to that problem for 40 years. General...

Catch Basin Hoods/Traps/FiltersCretex Specialty Products PRO-RINGPRO-RING from Cretex Specialty Products is a concrete-alternative manhole and catch basin grade-adjustment system that is available in round, square...