New Name For PPI Division Reflects Expanding Use Of HDPE Conduit
IRVING, Texas - The Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI) announced today that its Conduit Division has been renamed the Power & Communications Division (PCD). The change was prompted by growth within the division, uses of conduit in rapidly developing applications, and to reflect the types of solutions that high-density polyethylene (HDPE) conduit can provide. Comprised of conduit manufacturers, equipment suppliers, accessory producers and other companies, the Power & Communications Division...
Padre Dam Receives Conceptual Approvals and $116.2 Million for East County Advanced Water Purification Program
(Santee, CA – Padre Dam Municipal Water District received regulatory conceptual approvals for the East County Advanced Water Purification Program from the California State Water Resources Control Board Division of Drinking Water. Additionally, the State Water Resources Control Board awarded Padre Dam $116.2 million as part of the Proposition 1 (Prop 1) Water Recycling Funding Program. The conceptual approval will allow the program to use either Lake Jennings and/or and the Santee Groundw...
Water Supply Project Earns Global Desalination Plant Honor
Recognizing its size and technical complexity, the Escondida Water Supply (EWS) project in Chile was selected Industrial Desalination Plant of the Year at the 2017 Global Water Summit. The plant increases water supply by creating purified water from seawater and delivering it to the largest copper mine in the world. Black & Veatch served as engineer of record and led the engineering design, procurement, resident engineering, pre-commissioning and commissioning for the marine and desalination...
SJE-Rhombus Named 2017 ESOP Company of the Year
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. - SJE-Rhombus®, a leading manufacturer of pump control solutions for the water and wastewater industry, has been named the 2017 ESOP Company of the Year. The award was presented by the ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) Association to SJE-Rhombus employee owners at the annual ESOP Association Conference in Washington, D.C. on May 10th. "Receiving recognition as the national employee-owned company of the year is an honor," said Dave Thomas, CEO and President of SJE-Rhom...
CH2M Selected to Provide Operations and Maintenance Services for Township of Lucan Biddulph
LUCAN, Ontario - The Township of Lucan Biddulph in Ontario, Canada, selected CH2M to provide operations and maintenance services for the Lucan Biddulph Water System for the next five years. The water system includes an inline booster station, elevated storage tower, reservoir and a reservoir pumping station, which together provide water to more than 4,500 residents in the Lucan and Granton urban centers, and rural properties within the Township. CH2M's partnership with the community will f...
Water Subcommittee to Examine the Role of Integrated Planning in America’s Water Infrastructure
Washington, D.C. – The Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment will hold a hearing next week to examine the status of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) implementation of its integrated planning policy. The Subcommittee will focus on ways EPA can work with states and municipalities to develop integrated stormwater and wastewater requirements to achieve greater flexibility for communities to meet their Clean Water Act compliance obligations and maximize their limited resources t...
Rainwater Runoff Poses Threat to Indiana’s Waterways
INDIANAPOLIS (May 11, 2017) -- Indiana’s extremely rainy start to spring may call for concern. Heavy rainfalls can cause fertilizer runoff into major waterways that serve as source waters and replenish groundwater supplies across the state. Indiana American Water, the state’s largest investor-owned water utility, warns Indiana residents to take caution as to what types of fertilizers are safest to use when kickstarting the landscaping and gardening season. In recent years, it has become...
CH2M, Evergreen State College Center for Sustainable Infrastructure Visualize a Future for Water Infrastructure
PORTLAND, Ore.- Visualize a future where water infrastructure doesn't play a vital role in the daily lives of global citizens. Might seem hard to picture – yet, around the world water infrastructure is aging, and at risk for breakdowns. With dams averaging 50-years-old, most wastewater systems operating well over their expected lifespan and leaky pipes responsible for the loss of six billion gallons of treated drinking water every day, water infrastructure in the United States is at a critic...
Longtime Utility Directors Launch WaterPIO, Communications Consulting Firm Serving Water, Wastewater Professionals Across North Carolina, Nation
WILMINGTON, N.C.- Today two longtime utility directors launched a communications consulting firm dedicated to helping water and wastewater professionals across North Carolina and the nation meet their customers' growing expectations for information. WaterPIO (www.WaterPIO.com) provides short-term, long-term and emergency communication services to utilities and local government operations that will strengthen their relationships with their ratepayers, all for a fraction of the cost of full-time p...
NRDC REPORT: Nearly One in Four Americans’ Drinking Water Comes from Untested or Contaminated System
WASHINGTON – Nearly 77 million people—roughly a quarter of the U.S. population—spread across all 50 states were served by water systems reporting violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2015, according to a report issued today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The offenses ranged from arsenic to nitrate contamination, and included often-serious failures to test or report contamination levels. A new threat to the nation’s water supplies comes in the form of dramatic cuts to t...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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