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Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission solicitation process is going electronic
The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) is reporting that a sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) is occurring in the vicinity of the 4700th block of 41st Street in Hyattsville. A broken sewer main is the cause of the overflow, which began Thursday, March 6, at 1 p.m. and is ongoing. The overflow is fluctuating and currently estimated at 6.2 gallons a minute. The SSO is being contained in an ...
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Reading sewer main broken twice in three years
For the second time in just three years, a sewer main pipe in Reading, Pennsylvania, has ruptured, causing raw sewage to leak into the nearby Schuylkill River. 69 News reported that workers sent to fix the problem were forced to open an emergency gate, which sent the sewage flowing into the river. Not opening the gate would have eventually caused a backup of sewage into nearby resident’s ...
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Awarded for Action on Old Water Pipes
With 15 percent of its nearly 9,000 miles of water and sewer mains approaching 100 years old and needing rehabilitation or replacement, New Jersey American Water is turning to new technology to make old pipes like new again. For its innovative work to rehabilitate more a 90 year-old pipeline in West Orange, the company received the New Jersey Action Alliance’s 2013 Distinguished Engineering ...
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The biggest advantages of pipe bursting for trenchless sewer replacement
For decades, the only way to replace a sewer line was to dig a big, ugly, expensive trench right across your property. And since homeowners are legally required to pay for the upkeep of sewer lines servicing their property, that meant a big expensive mess. If there was a garden, driveway, deck, or sidewalk in the way, well, that’s just too bad. Fortunately, “no dig” trenchless ...
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U.S. EPA orders GWA to repair broken sewer main to Northern district wastewater plant (GU)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday issued a compliance order to the Guam Waterworks Authority to take immediate steps to repair a broken sewer force main located near the Southern Link Sewage Lift Station in Dededo, Guam. GWA has two weeks to repair or replace the broken 36-inch diameter force main and eliminate any wastewater spills resulting from the break. The utility needs to ...
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Queensland Delivers First-of-its-kind Assessment of Critical Assets in Australia
In 2013–2014, Queensland Urban Utilities developed and implemented a first-of-its-kind risk-based assessment program in Australia utilising innovative technologies and engineering assessment techniques to assess critical sewer mains. This work was in line with Queensland Urban Utilities’ industry-leading approach to risk-based asset management. A critical component of Queensland ...
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Diverse coalition urges congress to avoid drastic cuts to water infrastructure
As Congress finalizes fiscal year 2011 appropriations our organizations urge your support for maintaining important federal assistance needed by states and localities to meet the goals of the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. Specifically, we ask for your support of the President’s fiscal year 2011 $2.0 billion budget request for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF), ...
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Water Environment Federation Research Announces Electro Scan Project With Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District
Electro Scan Inc. today announced that the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) has approved an innovative project to test its patent-pending technology to locate and quantify sources of unwanted Rainfall-Dependent infiltration (RDI). As proposed by the national engineering consulting firm of Brown & Caldwell, in association with the Milwaukee ...
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NACWA urges the administration to call for greater investment in water infrastructure
President Barack Obama emphasized rebuilding America in his second State of the Union address and called for renewed investments in the aging infrastructure systems that sustain economic growth and competitiveness and serve as engines for American jobs. The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) applauds the President for his leadership on the issue of renewing America’s ...
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Bridge over troubled water opens at last
A popular Bolton footbridge re-opened today (May 16) – after six years of planning and a painstaking £1.8 million replacement scheme. Wilson’s Bridge over the River Croal at Farnworth has been closed since 2008 when it was declared unstable. A brand new bridge was installed by United Utilities at the end of February and MP Yasmin Qureshi will officially open it for the public ...
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American Water (AWK) unit to purchase sewer assets for $231 million
Pennsylvania American Water, a subsidiary of American Water (AWK), has signed an agreement with the Butler Area Sewer Authority (BASA) to purchase its wastewater system for $231.5 million. The system serves nearly 15,000 customers over 32.5 square miles, including the City of Butler; Butler and Center townships; East Butler Borough; and parts of Connoquenessing Borough, Summit and Oakland ...
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Builders fill sewer with concrete
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 ...
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WaBack installed to prevent flooding in apartment buildings
In Enskede, a suburb in Sweden, a residential building with about 70 apartments have been built. The building will be linked to the municipality’s combined sewer system and because of the risk of overload, the risk of back flow also increases. To give these residents peace of mind even before an unpleasant event occurs, it was decided to install a DN200-600 WaBack non-return valve. Sewer ...
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Aquatech team springs to action
A plugged sanitary sewer line is no laughing matter — especially when combined with an expected rain storm and an environmentally-sensitive landscape. That was the situation faced by the city of Markham and York Region last spring as a plugged line threatened to overflow into the Rouge River watershed. Aquatech, a Markham-based contractor specializing in rapid response to such situations, ...
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Insituform Wins Contract Valued at $7 Million in Honolulu, Hawaii
ST. LOUIS - Insituform Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq Global Select Market: INSU) announced today that it has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $7 million by the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii to rehabilitate nearly 1,400 feet of a 69-inch diameter pipeline beneath Ala Moana Boulevard, one of the main access roads to Waikiki Beach. Using Insituform® CIPP on this project will ...
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EPA fines Guam Waterworks Authority $40,000 for failure to meet federal court order to improve wastewater system
HONOLULU -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today fined the Guam Waterworks Authority $40,000 for failing to fully comply with a 2003 court order to repair and improve its wastewater system. GWA failed to meet April and June 2007 deadlines for the Agana sewage treatment plant and a May 2007 deadline for the Northern District plant to ensure compliance with federal permit limits from ...
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The EIB supports water quality improvements in the Baltic Sea
In line with the priorities of the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership, the European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 17.5 million to St Petersburg’s water company Vodokanal to finance reduction of the pollution discharged into the Gulf of Finland. Jointly financed by the Nordic Investment Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank, the ...
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Lincoln, Neb., selected to receive green design assistance
EPA has selected Lincoln, Neb., for green design assistance that includes incorporating green solutions to manage stormwater runoff and building pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods. The Agency will organize teams of urban planners and landscape architects to provide technical assistance as requested by Lincoln, Neb., officials. “This project will address environmental concerns, enhance green ...
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Understanding the Difference between Flood and Sewer Backup Insurance
Summer storms have already wreaked havoc and caused flooding in many parts of the country. Damage to a home or business can be extensive when flood waters enter a property and they are also sometimes associated with backed up sewers. For property owners facing a property damage claim, the type of water damage can mean the difference between coverage and facing the cost of repairs on their own. ...
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Atkins to design Wessex Water’s largest-ever trunk mains grid to improve water security
Atkins, the UK’s largest engineering design consultancy, has been appointed to a number of Wessex Water’s workstream framework agreements for the AMP5 investment period, including the water company’s largest-ever new mains project, the Water Supply Grid. The Water Supply Grid will be built over an eight-year period with an estimated £75 million expenditure expected in the ...
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