A WATER company is suing a house builder for £500,000 after they stopped people flushing their loos by pouring 30 tonnes of concrete down a sewer. The blunder caused chaos in Salford, Lancashire when the concrete set hard along about 43 metres of the public Victorian sewer. People could not flush their toilets for three days on Aspull Walk, Salford as engineers installed an emergency ...
EPA has awarded US$768,000 to Iola, Kan., for improvements to the sewer system. EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks said, “It’s always a pleasure to help Kansas communities better protect their water resources. These water infrastructure funds will partially fund the construction project which is estimated to cost US$2.6 million.” The purpose of the project is to repair and ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is initiating a rulemaking to better protect the environment and public health from the harmful effects of sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) and basement backups. In many cities, SSOs and basement backups occur because of blockages, broken pipes and excessive water flowing into the pipes. SSOs present environmental and health problems because they ...
SolidAT together with a local partner won a bid to monitor sewer in 3 major municipalities in Israel (Holon, Netanya and Raanana). In total a several dozens of SmartScan 50 ultrasonic level sensors will monitor the sewer level and provide combined sewer overflow alerts. The municipalities chose our solution over competition due to the high performance of the ultrasonic sensor and high end ...
Sewer gas is a complex mixture of toxic and nontoxic gases that can be present in a home, school or building depending on various circumstances. It is formed during the decay of household and industrial waste. There can be highly toxic components of sewer gas which include hydrogen sulfide and ammonia. Sewer gas also contains methane, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide ...
Sanitary sewer overflows happen every day across the nation. When they occur they can spread raw sewage into homes and businesses and cause extensive damage and the risk of disease in both indoor and outdoor environments. These unpleasant occurrences can be caused by many factors, but they are typically associated with sewer pipe blockages caused by ...
In-Pipe Technology Deployed System-Wide to Reduce Operating Costs Wheaton, IL — The City of Jackson, MS expanded its use of In-Pipe Technology® (In-Pipe) in an effort to improve overall operating efficiency and performance of its treatment plants and sewer collection systems. With a population of approximately 180,000, Jackson is served by three wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). Severn ...
Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today announced the worldwide release of InfoMaster Sewer for the enterprise management and analysis of sewer collection system data. The InfoMaster product suite provides critical insight to all utility enterprise ...
Innovyze, a leading global innovator of wet infrastructure modeling and simulation software and technologies, today introduced InfoMaster Sewer Generation V2.5 with new and improved analysis and reporting applications to enhance capital and operational planning; expand PACP data support; and automate asset renewal, ...
Most people have at one time or another walked into a home or building and were faced with the unpleasant odors associated with sewer gas. Sewer gas is a complex mixture of toxic and nontoxic gases that can be present in a home, school, business, or other type of building depending on various circumstances. Sewer gas is formed during the decay ...
Innovyze, a leading global innovator of wet infrastructure modeling and simulation software and technologies, today announced the release of InfoMaster Sewer Generation V2 for enterprise management and analysis of sewer collection system data. The InfoMaster product suite provides ...
Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for smart wet infrastructure, today introduced InfoMaster Sewer Generation V3.0 with new and improved analysis and reporting applications. Advances include enhanced capital and operational planning; expanded data support for NASSCO PACP ...
Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for smart wet infrastructure, today introduced InfoMaster Generation V5.0, with new and improved analysis and reporting applications. Where other ERP systems are focused on electronic records management, InfoMaster is built from the ...
Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for smart wet infrastructure, today introduced InfoMaster Generation V5.5, with expanded pipe inspection coding support, economic-based Nessie curve for forecasting capital expenditures needs as well as new and improved analysis and ...
Thames Water has urged people not to throw food waste or cooking fat down toilets as part of a campaign called Bin it – don’t block it to stop “sewer abuse”. Thames Water chief operating officer Steve Shine said: “This year alone we have had to deal with 55,000 blockages in London and the Thames Valley, resulting in flooding to 7,000 homes and gardens. “The majority of blockages are caused ...
Tipping left over fat and grease from the Christmas turkey down the kitchen sink could cause some unwelcome woes this holiday, and the Consumer Council for Water is calling for consumers to think twice before dumping fat, oil or grease down the drain. It is all too easy to simply rinse the fat and oil from greasy pots and pans down the drain with soap and hot water, but as the fat cools it will ...
Belgian wastewater utility Riobra has successfully implemented MWH Soft"s InfoNet solution to plan, construct, renovate and maintain a number of key Flemish wastewater networks. Central to Riobra"s approach are its GIS system and its enterprise administrative database, iSeries. The company"s goal is to keep these systems up to date so that it can provide accurate information to its customers - ...
To get to Sinikiwe MaKhumalo's doorstep in Zimbabwe's second largest city, Bulawayo, visitors have to step on a thin plank perched precariously over a trench that prevents sewage from flowing into her house. The 57-year-old grandmother has endured this arrangement to access her home in the city's Old Magwegwe working class suburb for the past five months after a sewer burst close to her ...
Drainage design standards should be reviewed and guidance developed for retrofitting water efficient fixtures and fittings to ensure sewerage systems can work with less water, says the just-released Environment Agency report ‘Less Water To Waste’. The joint investigation by scientists and water experts examined concerns that increasing water efficiency in the home and office could result in bad ...