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The Rancho California Water District (RCWD) has gradually been replacing all of their gas chlorine disinfection with MicrOclor on-site hypochlorite generators manufactured by Process Solutions, Inc. (PSI).
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By the end of the summer, the Rancho California Water District’s Elm Street Pump Station will be operating the agency’s first vertical-cell sodium hypochlorite generator for reclaimed water. The principal application will be irrigation for a sports park and golf courses.
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"We strongly recommend a disciplined approach to ensure complete operator safety," says Stertil-Koni USA Inc. President Jean DellAmore. The vehicle lift manufacturer's research finds that requiring these nine steps enhances technician safety.
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He (or she) responded to my note about whether public works departments are using consultants more or less because of the Great Recession with this:
No; we hired our consulting engineer to tell us the best, and hopefully least costly, way to solve a sewer sag problem.
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Two Municipal Energy Managers employees are charged with a felony for taking payments but not maintaining streetlights in Allentown, Bethlehem, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and now Richland.
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There's one more hoop to jump through: The U.S. House of Representatives. Some representatives think the Senate's $12.2 billion Water Resources Development Act reauthorization gives the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers too much leeway on project selection.
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Congratulations to the familiar faces among the winners. Is your department on the list?
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President Obama has signed a memo with the intention of speeding up the federal permitting process for construction of infrastructure projects.
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U.S. demand for virgin and reactivated activated carbon is expected to increase 11% annually to 1.3 billion pounds worth $1.35 billion in 2017.
The latest National Transportation Operations Coalition assessment shows that cities, counties, and states are slowly but surely improving traffic signal management and operation despite the usual continued challenges.
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San Francisco, Seattle, and New York lead in parking innovation; LA, DC, Portland,Ore., Miami, Houston, Boston, Denver, Pittsburgh, and Tampa also are named as cities that are re-thinking parking with technology and new approaches.
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New global report from the Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young highlights the critical role of local and state governments in meeting US infrastructure requirements.
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Settlement allows court ruling to stand: collection companies may dispose of waste where it makes the most economic sense (including their own landfills), not at government-mandated locations.
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Why are people always so surprised at how nice public works people are?!
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“New” technology, such as cured-in-place pipe, isn’t necessarily “better” for structurally repairing water and sewer pipelines.
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The Minneapolis bridge that tragically collapsed in 2007 was replaced in one-third the usual time, a deadline that required using concretes for which Minnesota DOT had no specifications.
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Although the evidence still supports the chemical's ability to help prevent tooth decay.
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Connecticut is working with PaintCare, a non-profit formed by architectural paint manufacturers to collect, reuse, and otherwise recycle unused product. Like the two other states (California and Oregon) with paint-stewardship laws, Connecticut's assesses a per-container fee.
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As Colorado DOT signs off on its first public-private partnership to build, improve, and maintain state roads, this article reviews federal/local strategies for "public" highways.
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A survey of 1,000 Americans shows they'd prefer to raise money for roads maintenance via "user pays directly" (i.e., tolls) than paying more in gas or sales taxes. Of course, if we pay more we also expect more — as these results show.