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EPA Provides More than $500,000 to New Jersey, Barnegat Bay Watershed

Water Management March 25, 2013 at 12:00 am

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $523,000 to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the creation of shorelines in Camden, N.J. and the Barnegat Bay watershed.

America?s Infrastructure Earns D+ Grade on National Report Card

Water Finance March 25, 2013 at 12:00 am

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has released its 2013 Report Card for America?s Infrastructure, a comprehensive assessment of the nation?s infrastructure across 16 sectors. Updated once every four years, this year?s Report Card found that America?s cumulative GPA for infrastructure rose slightly toRead More

Miami-Dade Selects Woolpert to Upgrade Asset Management Software

Water Management March 25, 2013 at 12:00 am

Woolpert, a national infrastructure management, geospatial and design consulting firm headquartered in Dayton, recently announced it has been selected by the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (WASD) to upgrade its Infor EAM Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system to Infor10 EAM. Woolpert began implementation of theRead More

Ohio Congressman Tours ADS Plant, Addresses Infrastructure Development

Water Management March 25, 2013 at 12:00 am

Last week, Congressman Robert E. Latta (R-Ohio) toured the Findlay manufacturing plant of Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (ADS), located in his 5th Congressional District of Ohio to gain a better understanding of what local businesses need to prosper. He learned from ADS executives how theRead More

Asset Management: Knowledge is Power

Water Management March 25, 2013 at 12:00 am

In 1597, when Sir Francis Bacon penned the concept ?Knowledge is Power? he proposed an entirely new system based on empirical and inductive principles and the active development of new arts and inventions. This knight and intellectual reformer developed a system whose ultimate goal wouldRead More

World Water Day 2013

Water Management March 22, 2013 at 12:00 am

?Water is central to the well-being of people and the planet,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his video message for the International Year of Water Cooperation 2013. ?We must work together to protect and carefully manage this fragile, finite resource.? Every action involving water managementRead More

SWIM Extends Deadline for WATERiD Membership to April 1

Water Management March 22, 2013 at 12:00 am

The Virginia Tech Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management (SWIM) Center is pleased to announce the extension of the deadline for WATERThe Virginia Tech Sustainable Water Infrastructure Management (SWIM) Center is pleased to announce the extension of the deadline for WATERiD Knowledge Database Founding Membership to 5Read More

Arndt, Grumbles Testify to Congress on Water Infrastructure Financing

Water Management March 15, 2013 at 12:00 am

In testimony on March 13 before a U.S. House Appropriations subcommittee, the American Water Works Association called for strengthening existing water infrastructure finance tools and advocated for creation of a Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Authority. Aurel Arndt, general manager of Lehigh County Authority inRead More

CWA Violations Settled in Virginia and Maryland

Water Finance March 11, 2013 at 12:00 am

Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. and PulteGroup, Inc. have agreed to pay civil penalties of $130,000 and $56,000 respectively in separate settlements with the U.S. EPA resolving alleged Clean Water Act violations at construction sites in Maryland and Virginia. ?The EPA alleged that the companies failed toRead More

Bilfinger Emerges As Leader in Water and Wastewater Technology

Water Management March 11, 2013 at 12:00 am

With the successful renaming of all subsidiaries concluded on March 1, 2013, the new group of companies, Bilfinger Water Technologies, demonstrated its development into one of the world’s leading suppliers of components and services in nearly all areas of water and wastewater technology. Bilfinger WaterRead More