Category: Public Water System

April 6, 2017

In an effort to continue to ensure reliability of water service for coastal-area customers, New Jersey American Water is investing approximately $2.5 million to install new water mains within Rumson and under the Shrewsbury River in Rumson and Sea Bright. […]

March 14, 2017

The city and state will implement Plan A next week in a combined effort to address the beach rock that is clogging drain pipes and causing flooding and periodic lane closures on Interstate 35 through downtown Duluth. “We all agree […]

March 2, 2017

On Feb. 28, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to consider rescinding or revising their ‘Waters of the United States,’ also known as the WOTUS rule. The process […]

February 23, 2017

For technicians in the Village of Gresham, Wisconsin, heading out to manually retrieve data from more than 1,000 installed water and electricity meters was arduous and time-consuming. Additionally, the Village’s metering system had become outdated, with aging equipment that made […]

February 22, 2017

Small upstate New York communities faced with dilapidated wooden pipes rumored to be more than 100 years old need state money to repair water system infrastructure on the verge of collapse, a group of lawmakers said Thursday. A bipartisan group […]

February 17, 2017

fter Monday’s blizzard that dropped more than two feet in some places, another snow event is expected to move through Maine on Wednesday evening. Now the question is, where are we going to put all this snow? In Maine’s largest […]

February 15, 2017

Virginia lawmakers have overwhelmingly passed a bill seeking rate approval for one or more pumped hydro storage projects in the state, moving the measure to the Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) for signature. The bill, HB 1760, seeks rate approval for “one […]

January 12, 2017

The San Diego County Water Authority and the city of San Diego on Jan. 5 said they were considering a new pumped storage opportunity at an existing reservoir site. The potential project would create a new, up to 500-megawatt source […]

January 11, 2017

Vertex, a leader in utility customer experience solutions, today announced that Lee County Utilities, a division of the Department of Public Utilities in Lee County in Southwest Florida, has completed implementation of a new cloud CIS and customer web and […]

December 23, 2016

For more than a year, state health officials and residents of the small town of St. Joseph, Louisiana, have been worried about discolored tap water tied to aging infrastructure, waiting for an audit to free up funds to update the […]

December 12, 2016

During a recent overall facility survey, a consulting team gave serious consideration to the “equipment-purchase question.” The initial task was to take steps that optimized the wastewater treatment to maintain discharge-permit compliance. The overriding consideration in these discussions was whether […]

November 25, 2016

Our population growth remains steady, as more people want to live and work here each year. And our economy continues to expand at a rate that would be the envy of many states in our nation, not to mention nations […]

November 22, 2016

The Kent County Regional Resource Recovery Facility, or as it was know in the past, the Kent County Wastewater Treatment Facility, celebrated the completion of its 2-year, $24 million nutrient removal and capacity expansion project on Friday. The most notable […]

October 26, 2016

Senet, the first and only North American provider of public, low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) for long range-based (LoRa®-based) Internet of Things (IoT) applications, today announced that Trimble is leveraging its wireless technology to enable water utilities to remotely measure and […]

October 21, 2016

Greater Sudbury is working on a roadmap for getting its underground water and sewer infrastructure in shape. Meeting on Tuesday, councillors got an overview of how the Water and Wastewater Master Plan will be developed. It will identify what the […]

October 20, 2016

Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is turning to a natural solution to manage its stormwater challenges, carving out space between sidewalks and curbs to create tiny marshlands within its urban landscaping. “This voluntary retrofit of a storm system in a dense […]

October 18, 2016

Bert Curtis said the city of Davis’ water infrastructure is mapped in his head, after working in the public utilities department for more than three decades. Now that map is on the web, and the division director’s employees can find […]

September 22, 2016

Located only 1,500 feet from the active Calaveras fault line in Santa Clara County, Calif., the Calaveras Dam could be in serious trouble if an earthquake were to hit. That’s why officials from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) […]

September 14, 2016

A state seismologist expert presented data Wednesday that showed a direct relation between the increased volume of wastewater injected into disposal wells and higher numbers of earthquakes while oil production remained level. The data showed corresponding decreases after state regulators […]

September 2, 2016

After hearing two hours of testimony, the city’s Board of Estimates voted Wednesday to approve an increase to the city’s water and sewage rates. Comptroller Joan M. Pratt and City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young voted against what amounts […]