‘Nonpoint' sources are responsible for three-quarters of California's most polluted waters. Unable to recoup remediation costs from developers or taxpayers, stormwater managers in the state that laid the groundwork for the Clean Water Act test the law's bottom line: Who pays?
Three major initiatives, conducted simultaneously, avert “merger mania” by maximizing connections and minimizing disruption.
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Primed by regulatory imperatives and the national focus on sustainability, operations integrate stormwater control measures into parks and streetscapes of all kinds.
Preparing for life after build-out, a combined water/wastewater utility maximizes supply by piggybacking on an airport expansion.
Plant upgrades and conversions help meet capacity and regulatory requirements.
A West Coast city shaves the cost of installing one of the nation's largest membrane bioreactor systems by one-third.
Calculating the point of diminishing returns when pursuing outside funding opportunities.
Influence behavior by personalizing the damage that cooking residues cause.
Public works departments may find themselves at both ends of the EPA's new effluent limitation guidelines for construction sites, both as permitting authorities and as site owners. It's time to explore the most preferred methodology for keeping jobsites clean.
Pinpoint the problems with a sanitary sewer evaluation study.
Paul Revere's midnight ride once inspired the citizens of Lexington, Mass., to become the nation's first patriots. Today, public works is inspiring them to become revolutionaries once again.
Managers in Southern California combat drought by enhancing their product portfolio.
Each spring, large quantities of dissolved nutrients (such as nitrogen and phosphorous) are transported from the upper Midwest into what is called the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone — an oxygen-deficient area that grows to approximately 8,000 square miles each year and cannot support marine life.
Next to the Mississippi River delta in the Gulf of Mexico, no other river basin in North America struggles with excess nutrients more than the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The 64,000-square-mile estuary is the nation's largest, encompassing parts of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia...
For nearly 50 years, the American Public Works Association has been rewarding excellence and dedication in public service by naming the industry's "Top Ten Leaders of the Year" during National Public Works Week.
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Tucson, Ariz., is getting an infrastructural facelift-and some extra help from the government.
Five months into the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, it's too early to tell how much impact the legislation has had. But with some projects under way, managers and manufacturers alike hope this is the beginning of a revitalized construction industry and the economy as a whole.