Water Main Break Articles

As winter takes hold in 2018, the Madison (Wisconsin) Water Utility prepares by looking back to the most extreme season on record

Broken mains result from record lows across the nation

Here’s how two Florida contractors are assisting their area municipalities in the wake of Hurricane Irma

A majority of the homes in Holiday Beach, Texas, were destroyed, but the community’s water system has gotten back on track following the disaster

In this week’s news briefs, due to a rash of water main breaks, a city in Kansas discovers 13 miles of pipeline that had been improperly installed in the 1990s, and a large sewer project in Omaha, Nebraska, can resume after a 14-month hiatus now that a stuck tunnel-boring machine has finally been freed

In this week’s news briefs, D.C. Water awards the contract for a 5-mile, $580 million tunnel project that will reduce overflows into the Anacostia River, and a Michigan city is adding defendants to its lawsuit over who should pay for the repairs of a collapsed sewer and large sinkhole that appeared this past Christmas Eve

In this week’s news briefs, Kansas City, Missouri, installs its 100th mile of new water main since 2013, and OSHA fines a Massachusetts company $1.5 million for an incident that killed two sewer workers

Omaha deals with record number of water main breaks in December

From water main breaks to earthquakes, Scottsdale Water relies on continuous training and its "emergency toolbox" to respond if and when disaster strikes.

There are still too many communities facing infrastructure challenges caused by inadequate revenue and investment.

A spatial map of the pipeline depicts elevation changes as well as notable features of interest encountered during an inspection.

In 2014, the city of Napa, California, experienced a 6.0 magnitude earthquake, which caused about a year’s worth of water main breaks in just six days.

San Francisco Bay Area water utilities look to tap into an aquifer 500 feet underground to back up surface water sources in the event of an emergency.

In this week’s news briefs, the city of Baltimore says proactive maintenance has led to a significant reduction in water main breaks, and the state of Alabama sues Dothan over sewer overflows.