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Black & Veatch management consulting division releases 2007 national stormwater utility survey results
Black & Veatch’s management consulting division, Enterprise Management Solutions, today announced the availability of its 2007 National Stormwater Utility Survey. The survey is conducted every other year and is designed to help professionals in the stormwater industry stay informed on the ongoing issues in the industry. The survey is part of Black & Veatch’s goal to provide information ...
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Black & Veatch Survey Provides Insights on Stormwater Infrastructure Investments
2010 Stormwater Utility Survey shows best management practices in planning, operations and finance OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - A valuable knowledge resource for stormwater utilities that includes elements of how to address combined sewer overflows and data related to billing consumers was released today. The results of Black & Veatch’s eighth Stormwater Utility Survey, comes at a time when ...
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Hermann High Performance Doors Grand Opening; CEC on Project Team
A Grand Opening/ Ribbon Cutting for the new North American industrial door manufacturing facility of Hormann Flexon LLC will take place Monday, April 7, 2014, at the Starpointe Business Park located at 117 Starpointe Boulevard, Burgettstown, Pa. 15021-9506. Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. (CEC) was contracted through Pittsburgh-based Fourth River Development LLC to perform the site ...
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Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) Offers One Million Dollars for Research on Water Infrastructure for the 21st Century
The Water Environment Research Foundation seeks proposals for research to generate the science and engineering to improve and/or evaluate promising innovative technologies and techniques to reduce the cost and improve the effectiveness of operation, maintenance, management, and replacement of aging and failing wastewater and stormwater conveyance and treatment infrastructure. This round of ...
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Jim Chaffee to be AWWA’s next President-Elect
The Board of Directors of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) today announced the election of Jim Chaffee, a Wisconsin-based engineer with the global firm Jacobs, as the Association’s next president-elect. Chaffee will assume his new position at AWWA’s Annual Conference & Exposition (ACE12) in Dallas, Texas, in June 2012, and will begin his year-long term as president in ...
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Water Sector Unites for Water Week 2021, Urges Greater Federal Investment in Infrastructure
Sunday, April 25 marked the beginning of Water Week 2021, as thousands of representatives from across the water sector come together to advocate before Congress and the Administration on behalf of the communities they serve. Notably, this year 17 water associations have united to ensure their voice is heard. This year’s activities are entirely virtual due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. ...
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EPA to Assist Fredericktown, Mo., Water Utilities in Bolstering Climate Resilience and Readiness
The City of Fredericktown, Mo., was chosen to receive training and technical assistance to help water utilities bolster their climate change resilience and readiness. Fredericktown was one of more than 20 communities chosen to receive up to $30,000 each of assistance. EPA will provide more than $600,000 worth of technical assistance and training across the country as part of the program. ...
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EPA to Assist Hillsboro, Kan., Water Utilities in Bolstering Climate Resilience and Readiness
The City of Hillsboro, Kan., was chosen to receive training and technical assistance to help water utilities bolster their climate change resilience and readiness. Hillsboro was one of more than 20 communities chosen to receive up to $30,000 each of assistance. EPA will provide more than $600,000 worth of technical assistance and training across the country as part of the program. “Climate ...
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Water Environment Research Foundation accepting applications for award for excellence in innovation
The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) is accepting applications for its Award for Excellence in Innovation. This award recognizes organizations that have made improvements to wastewater and stormwater collection, storage or treatment operations, facilities, or processes by applying WERF research. The 2011 recipients were the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation and a team composed ...
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EPA to Assist Seminole Tribe of Florida Bolster Climate Resilience and Readiness
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing up to $600,000 in training and technical assistance to help water utilities in more than 20 communities, including the Seminole Tribe of Florida, bolster their climate change resilience and readiness. “Climate change isn’t a distant threat – it is already impacting communities across the country,” said Ken Kopocis, ...
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EPA to Assist Water Utility in Auburn Ala. to Bolster Climate Resilience and Readiness
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing up to $600,000 in training and technical assistance to help water utilities in more than 20 communities, including Auburn Ala., bolster their climate change resilience and readiness. “Climate change isn’t a distant threat – it is already impacting communities across the country,” said Ken Kopocis, deputy assistant ...
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Black & Veatch selected to design $244 million deep rock tunnel to combat sewer and stormwater overflows
tunnel can provide cleaner and healthier waterways in Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio – Planning is now underway for a $244 million, 1.2-mile tunnel system, pump station and enhanced high-rate treatment facility in Cincinnati, Ohio, that could reduce the mixture of sewage and stormwater that enters local waterways, improving the quality of life for the more than 2 million people living in the ...
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EPA to Assist Water Utilities in Bolstering Climate Resilience and Readiness
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing up to $600,000 in training and technical assistance to help water utilities in more than 20 communities bolster their climate change resilience and readiness. “Climate change isn’t a distant threat – it is already impacting communities across the country,” said Ken Kopocis, deputy assistant administrator for EPA's ...
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How to digitize your wastewater network with a smart water solution?
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that at least 23,000 to 75,000 sanitary sewer overflow events occur in the United States each year. These overflows are mainly caused by inadequate maintenance and aging sewer infrastructure.2 Next, to managing these overflows, municipalities across the USA are also facing challenging obligations to manage these systems at a time of ...
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Geosyntec Consultants Awarded WERF Funding for Innovative High-Performance Green Infrastructure Research
Geosyntec Consultants (Geosyntec) announced today it has been awarded funding under a Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) program for the design, installation, measurement, and analysis of a series of actively controlled, distributed green infrastructure ('high-performance green infrastructure") approaches for urban stormwater control. Geosyntec will demonstrate through this $175,000 ...
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Parking on your Rentention Pond
ADVANCED PAVEMENT TECHNOLOGY is proud to announce another cutting edge technology milestone for stormwater management. BASS™ (Bio-Aquifer Storm System) has provided a simple solution for stormwater detention requirements and now has successfully demonstrated its ability to provide a simple solution for stormwater retention. Utilizing BASS™as an underground storage facility has enhanced land ...
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Geosyntec Consultants Awarded Grant Funding for Two New York City Innovative Green Infrastructure Demonstration Projects
Geosyntec Consultants (Geosyntec) announced today it received funding for the design, installation, measurement, and analysis of two projects incorporating actively controlled, distributed green infrastructure ("high-performance green infrastructure") approaches for urban stormwater control under a New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Green Infrastructure Grant Program. ...
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NACWA moves to intervene in Mississippi river litigation on nutrient pollution
The National Association for Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) filed a Motion to Intervene today in a lawsuit initiated by the Gulf Restoration Network and other NGOs seeking to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish costly federal numeric nutrient criteria (NNC) and nutrient total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for all waterbodies in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern ...
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AWWA, WEF members attend 10th fly-in in DC
Leading water associations join forces to bring key issues to Congress Utility leaders to approach Congress in more than 400 meetings during first American Water Works Association, Water Environment Federation Water Matters! Fly In (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The two largest water associations in North America today combined forces for the first time to push for smart approaches to water ...
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$1.7 Million In Federal Funding Awarded To WRD To Maximize Use Of Local Water Sources And Eliminate The Need For Imported Water
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor announced on May 21, 2013, the selection of five Title XVI water reuse projects in California and New Mexico to receive $15.6 million in funding through the Department of the Interior's WaterSMART program. The Water Replenishment District's (WRD) Leo J. Vander Lans Advanced Water Treatment Facility ...
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