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Ansonia Sewer Authority to Pay Cost of Sewer Collapse; Chairman Walks Out
A heated dispute over who will pay for the massive sewer pipe collapse in Ansonia, Conn., ended with the apparent resignation of city's Water Pollution Control Authority chairman after his commissioners authorized paying the bill.
L.A. Wants to Spend $8 Billion to Recycle All of Its Wastewater by 2035
The City of Los Angeles is considering a wastewater reclamation project that could end up supplying one-third of the city’s water by 2035.
Farcical and Other Lost Words
EDITOR’S LOG Robert Carpenter | Editor-in-Chief Words are essential to my profession so I’m admittedly sensitive. But I sometimes wonder if technology is killing our written and spoken vocabulary? I recently read a report that claimed modern society is u..
The RehabZone Brings Together Yesterday and Today
The RehabZone™, exclusive to UCT, offers attendees a “hands-on” look at the history and best of today’s trenchless technologies for the rehabilitation of aging infrastructure. The exhibit-within-an-exhibit is where you can see the methods used in North America over the last 200-plus years. Then, ex..
RehabZone to Build on Record-Setting Year
Jeff Awalt | Executive Editor The RehabZone was launched in 2002 to help educate and instill confidence among sewer and water industry professionals in the advancing capabilities of trenchless technologies at the start of a rehabilitation boom. By the time Andy Rothenberg became chairman in 2016,..
Doheny Takes Confined Space Training On The Road
The Jack Doheny Companies, a major supplier of sewer cleaning and pipeline inspection and maintenance equipment, is bringing essential permit required, confined space training to job sites with a mobile “classroom.” OSHA requires that all employees who work in confined spaces must be properly train..
RehabZone 2018 Cutter Challenge
The 2018 RehabZone, held in conjunction with the annual Underground Construction Technology International Conference & Exhibition (UCT), is still months away, but planning has been underway since April. The RehabZone is a special “no-sell” area providing objective information about rehabilitation of..
RehabZone Provides Excellent Pipeline Rehabilitation Education
The RehabZone made a repeat appearance at UCT 2017 in a city – Fort Worth, TX – where the event had never been held. Sponsors, volunteers who manned RehabZone stations, and the many visitors who went through the “Zone” in the Exhibit Hall agreed it was one of the best ever. A primary factor in the..
Michigan Governor to Drink Flint Water for at Least a Month
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will drink Flint water at home and at work for at least a month to show to residents it is safe with the use of a faucet filter, he said Monday. The Republican governor, who has apologized for his administration’s role in the city’s lead-tainted w..
San José Rejects Tributary Agencies’ CIP Claims, Urges Shift In Focus
The city of San José, CA, formally rejected claims made by wastewater tributary agencies in regards to the planning, implementation and costs for the long-term Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility serving 1.4 million people in Silicon Valley and..
2016 RehabZone Mission: A Major Success At UCT
The 2016 RehabZone has evolved and changed to include new technologies and processes, it remains true to its founding principles – to focus firmly on the pipeline rehabilitation industry with a unique, “no-sell, education only” format that remains a primary reason for its continuing success. Like p..
Aegion Corporation Completes the Acquisition of Underground Solutions, Inc.
ST. LOUIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aegion Corporation (Nasdaq Global Select Market: AEGN) today announced the completion of the acquisition of Underground Solutions Inc. (“Underground Solutions”), an innovative provider of proprietary fusible PVC technology for the rehabilitation of pressure pipelines. The C..
Aegion Agrees to Acquire Underground Solutions, Inc.
Aegion has executed a definitive agreement to acquire Underground Solutions, Inc. for $85 million in cash and expects to close the transaction during the first quarter of 2016. The Company will separately pay for the discounted value of tax benefits (estimated today to be approximately $5 million) a..
RehabZone Embraces Influx Of Participants, Ideas
The RehabZone has been a vital element of the annual Underground Construction Technology International Conference & Exhibition (UCT) for many years and planners of the next “Zone” are excited to be returning to Atlanta in 2016. UCT and the RehabZone will be held Feb. 3-4 at the Georgia World Congre..
Pipelines: Predicting The Unpredictable
by Robert Carpenter, Editor In Chief First, the bad news. It’s been about 17 months since oil and gas prices started their freefall. Prices for oil seem to have stabilized – for now – while natural gas remains in flux. But reports of dramatic oversupply, historic storage levels, poor international..
The Risk Of Narrow Vision
The sewer and water infrastructure industry has again been pushed to the rear of significance and importance by states desperate to maintain their road and bridge funding. Consequently, in the short-lived attention spans of politicians, sewer and water has shifted back to “out-of-sight, out-of-mind”..
Contech Engineered Solutions helps build 9/11 site
Contech Engineered Solutions supplied a new stormwater detention system to Liberty Park, an elevated public park under construction in the new World Trade Center in New York City. A stormwater detention system was needed to meet NYC Department of Environmental Protection stormwater regulations. The..
Stimulus Complexities
It’s hard to believe in the future when every day you are told that the future is bleak. At least that’s the story we’re being bombarded with by national media. But the recent strength of the annual Underground Construction Technology International Conference & Exhibition was a refreshing breath of optimism and hope in an otherwise environment of despair.
- OSHA cites Florida contractors for trench safety violations at sewer and excavation sites
- Biden-Harris administration invests $849 million in aging water infrastructure, drought resilience
- Cadiz to reuse steel from terminated Keystone XL pipeline for California groundwater project
- Texas contractor penalized by OSHA for repeated trench safety violations
- West Virginia approves $67 million for water, sewer projects