Sewer fitness: Cutting the fat
By: Randy Southerland
Clogged arteries, angioplasty, big bills. Does that sound like last week's episode of ER? Guess again. It is the ongoing story line for cities and counties...
PUBLIC WORKS/Las Vegas sliplines to restore aging sewer
By: Misty Reagin, Assistant Editor
Las Vegas has rehabilitated part of its Sloan Lane Interceptor using sliplining to aging and damaged pipe. The $3.2 million project, which took six months...
WASTEWATER/Project stabilizes sewer pipeline and riverbank
In 1999, spring rains near Kansas City, Mo., eroded a section of riverbank in the Blue River exposing a 120-foot-long section of 60-inch diameter concrete...
Nature's filter: Constructed wetlands
By: Misty Reagin, Assistant Editor
In 1985, Orlando, Fla., began construction of the Orlando Easterly Wetlands (OEW), an approximately 1,220-acre complex that the city figured would provide...
Locking down on water system security
By: Beth Wade, Managing Editor
When Milwaukee Water Works began planning for security upgrades in 1999, terrorism was not part of the picture. We were thinking about vandals and graffiti...
Truckee Meadows Water Authority
Water is a vital and rare resource in the West. Consequently, when the Sierra Pacific Power Co. announced its intention to sell the private water utility...
WASTEWATER/District revamps solids processing, cuts odors
The 43-year-old, 105-million-gallon-per-day Morris Forman Wastewater Treatment Plant is located less than 10 miles from the downtown business district...
STREETS & HIGHWAYS/Intersection project makes asphalt a winner
By: Ron Corun, Citgo Asphalt
Because slower speeds generally mean a higher incidence of rutting, pavement designers must recognize that intersections are different from posted-speed...
Land purchases protect New York's watershed
In April, New York City purchased 178 acres in Yorktown, N.Y., as part of its effort to protect water quality in its watershed. The acquisition is one...
Regionalizing watershed management
By: Kim O'Connell
Whisky's for drinking; water's for fighting about. Mark Twain For decades, the United States has been fighting with Canada and Mexico over rights to rivers...
WASTEWATER/Communities sign up for new treatment plant
By: Beth Wade, Managing Editor
With its population growing at a rate of 5 percent annually, Broadway, Va., needed new capacity in its wastewater treatment system. As officials examined...
PUBLIC WORKS/Locals hope bill boosts water infrastructure
By: AMERICAN CITY & COUNTY STAFF
First, there was TEA-21, the Transportation Equity Act, which helped rebuild the nation's road system. Hot on its heels, AIR-21 provided the push for...
WASTEWATER/City uses sliplining to rehab interceptor sewer
By: AMERICAN CITY & COUNTY STAFF
Evansville, Ind ., recently rehabilitated more than two miles of an interceptor sewer using polymer mortar pipe and sliplining. The $8 million project...
Locals build wetlands to treat leachate
By: Sarah Rasmussen
Metro Waste Authority (MWA) of Des Moines, Iowa, has developed the state's first constructed wetlands and prairie to naturally treat leachate. The system...
Ohio city boosts revenue with sludge processing
By: AMERICAN CITY & COUNTY STAFF
North Ridgeville, Ohio, has completed the first phase of a $4.5 million project that will expand the city's capacity for sludge handling. The expansion...
Water department re-engineering saves money
By: Michael Gritzuk
Through a unique partnership between management and labor, the Phoenix Water Services Department (PWSD) is re-engineering itself to improve operations...
Sewer software helps city save money
By: Christina Couret
Live Oak, Calif., needed to overhaul its sewers. Some of the pipes, dating back to 1952, were cracking and collapsing, and the system could not handle...
Tapping into water shortage solutions
By: Beth Wade, Managing Editor
Five weeks before the beginning of summer 2000, the headline on the front page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution announces, "Dryness chokes Georgia."...
Jefferson County eliminates chlorine hazard
By: AMERICAN CITY & COUNTY STAFF
As Jefferson County, Colo., approached the 21st century, its Water Sanitation District (WSD) had a problem: Chlorine gas used by the North Table Mountain...
WASTEWATER/City performs pipe repairs without digging
Newton, Mass., has started a pipe rehabilitation project to repair some of its oldest sewers. But, because it wants to avoid major disruptions on roads,...
San Marcos reservoir set to serve
The Vallecitos Water District (VWD) in San Marcos, Calif., has completed construction of a project that will ensure the district's ability to supply water...
Soothing water woes with desalination
By: William Suratt, Mark Maimone and Tomas Missimer
Searching for ways to augment existing freshwater supplies, cities and counties are turning their attention to salt water resources....
