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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.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $569 million to New Jersey and New York to fix drinking water and wastewater assets trashed by Superstorm Sandy last fall.
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The first full week of May has been Drinking Water Week for more than 30 years. This resource lists future dates through 2023 along with ideas for reminding schoolchildren, the general public, and employees of the priceless service you provide.
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Marking the 53rd anniversary of the award, the American Public Works Association (APWA) announced the Top Ten Public Works Leaders of 2013.
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Provo's the third U.S. city to sign up with Google Fiber, which is roughly 200 times faster than basic cable. The sale requires the city to pay off a $39 million bond used to build the iProvo Internet network.