Water Needs Abound But Who Will Pay the Bill?
Water and wastewater issues are hot topics these days for a multitude of reasons. Yet the bottom line remains the concern over funding resources.

Coating Failure Required Quick Restoration
The effluent channels in the City of San Jose, CA’s water pollution control plant needed restoration and corrosion protection after complete failure of the existing coating that had been in service for only five years.

Executive Roundtable
Discussing Water/Wastewater Issues.

Concrete Pipe And Boxes Meet Performance Requirements For Culverts
The service life of a roadway culvert depends upon many factors.

Ultra-Blue to the Rescue
Formerly a predominantly ductile iron community, the City of Montgomery, AL, was faced with corrosion problems with ductile iron in hot soil conditions.

Local Economic Benefits Flow from Global Program Management
When Toledo, Ohio, selected global engineering, construction and consulting giant Black & Veatch for comprehensive program management of a 15-year wastewater capital program, uppermost was the need to bring wastewater and CSO systems into regulatory compliance.

Finding Value in Submerged Membranes
In Racine, WI, the Water and Wastewater Utility’s (RWU) 50 mgd, submerged ultrafiltration Zenon membrane system underscores the utility’s commitment to providing the highest quality drinking water to its 200,000 customers.

Sewer Bypass Enables Rehab
An 86-million-gallon-per-day (mgd) bypass enabled a $1.2-million renovation to install new influent gates and a distribution box at the city of Allentown, PA’s Kline’s Island Wastewater Treatment Plant.

HDD Minimizes Landscape Disruption For Water System Rehab
The Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) pipeline installation method is gaining popularity, especially when a trenchless installation is the only way for a pipeline to be installed or replaced.

Pump Changeout Halts Recurring Fouling
The use of the return-activated sludge (RAS) process has improved treated effluent quality at wastewater treatment plants across the nation. However, in Cocoa Beach, FL, the RAS process upgrade in 1994 caused a continual problem for the RAS pumps.

Program Management Streamlines Plant Upgrade/Expansion
Like many government agencies, Arlington County, VA, has strived to maintain an aging wastewater treatment facility—one that is being increasingly strained by demands to improve the quality of its discharge to a nearby tributary of the Potomac River.

Silent Knight Unveiled
Thompson Pump & Manufacturing Co. of Port Orange, FL, recently introduced the industry’s first fully modular, sound-attenuated, drop-on canopy, called the Silent Knight®.

Improving Water Systems in San Diego
The Otay Water Treatment Plant in Chula Vista, CA, is growing, with construction under way for two 6.9-million-gallon treated-water storage reservoirs.

Resilient Wedge Gate Valves Showcased in Las Vegas
The Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD) recently completed its $40-million Charleston Heights Pumping Station and Reservoir.

Software Speeds Water System Solutions
Software products have been available for a quarter century to help utilities, municipalities and engineers in designing and maintaining water systems and facilities.

Reinforced Polypropylene Covers Big Canyon Reservoir
Cooley COOLPRO, a reinforced polypropylene geomembrane, is being used to protect 200 million gallons of water in the Big Canyon Reservoir, in Corona del Mar, CA.

Challenges Overcome in Water Main Rehab
Spiniello Companies was chosen to repair the Quemahoning Pipeline, a 100-year-old, 66-in.-dia riveted steel water main in Johnstown, PA.