Articles by: WFM Staff

Design and engineering company Stantec has been awarded a new $25 million (USD) 5-year single-award, task-order master services agreement with the Kentucky Division of Water (DOW) to provide flood risk mapping, assessment, and planning services. A portion of the first task order will focus onRead More

Water analytics company BlueConduit has announced an integration with Esri that will bring its machine learning to utilities using Esri’s ArcGIS technology. BlueConduit says its water utility customers will now have the ability to view and update service line inventories in a single platform usingRead More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced $7.5 billion in available Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) funding. To date, EPA’s WIFIA program has issued $19 billion in loans to help finance 109 projects across the country, creating more than 60,000 jobs. ThisRead More

The American Business Water Coalition (ABWC), a national organization comprised of water-reliant businesses, has released a “U.S. Water Infrastructure Funding and Business Risks Survey,” examining voter opinions across a wide spectrum of water issues. The survey focused on water issues such as water quality, federalRead More

A series of subsurface leaks found by Pennsylvania American Water using ASTERRA’s satellite leak detection solution represent an important milestone for the latter — the company has now detected more than 100,000 water leaks on behalf of customers worldwide. “In honoring this milestone, we recognizeRead More

Fitch Ratings says U.S. water utilities weathered the COVID-19 pandemic remarkably well and appear to be on solid footing, even as the broader economy inches closer to recession, according to the credit ratings company’s annual peer review for the sector. According to the review, slowerRead More

Garney Construction will welcome incoming CEO David Burkhart and two new presidents in October as long-time employee-owners prepare to retire in April 2024. Burkhart will take over as CEO effective next month, as Mike Heitmann, current CEO, will retire in the spring. Heitmann has beenRead More

In late August, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of the Army (the agencies) announced a final rule to amend the definition of “waters of the United States” to conform with the recent Supreme Court decision in Sackett v. EPA. The agenciesRead More

On Sept. 7, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) announced the launch of the Large-Scale Water Recycling Projects Competitive Grants Program, which Congress created in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. The WateReuse Association helped create the program duringRead More

McKim & Creed announced Dave Gunter has joined the firm as Senior OT SCADA Cybersecurity Practice Lead. Gunter is based in McKim & Creed’s Pittsburgh office.   “Cybersecurity protection is necessary as we look to solve infrastructure challenges for our clients,” said Mike Stoup, vice presidentRead More