Water Management

Everything You Need to Know about EPA’s New Health Advisories for PFOA, PFOS

Everything You Need to Know about EPA’s New Health Advisories for PFOA, PFOS

Water Management July 11, 2022 at 5:45 am

By Ashley Campbell & Seth Mansergh The EPA recently announced new health advisories for the two most commonly found forms of PFAS, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), to 0.004 parts per trillion (ppt) and 0.02 ppt, respectively. Reductions in these levels hadRead More

Reducing Water Loss at a World-Class Resort

Reducing Water Loss at a World-Class Resort

Water Loss, Water Management July 8, 2022 at 6:09 am

British Columbia Municipality Takes Proactive Approach to Water Loss, Pairing Inline and External Leak Detection Solutions By Justin Hebner & Chris Wike The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is nestled in the scenic Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. When RMOW was incorporated in 1975,Read More

Brown and Caldwell to support Metro Vancouver in wastewater treatment upgrades

Brown and Caldwell to support Metro Vancouver in wastewater treatment upgrades

Water Management June 29, 2022 at 11:29 am

Brown and Caldwell is supporting Metro Vancouver as it undertakes major upgrades at the world’s largest trickling filter solids contact wastewater facility at the Annacis Island Wastewater Treatment Plant. The project will increase capacity, meet the needs of a growing population, and protect essential utilityRead More

Boston, Massachusetts Skyline from above by Drone during Summer Time

BWSC selects Stantec for next phase of East Boston Sewer Separation project

Water Management June 28, 2022 at 2:00 pm

Design and engineering firm Stantec has been selected to lead design services on Phase IV of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission’s (BWSC) East Boston Sewer Separation project. The project is part of a comprehensive 30-year, $150 million initiative to reduce pollutants discharged to BostonRead More

BGSU students take algal bloom research to Kenya

BGSU students take algal bloom research to Kenya

Water Management June 28, 2022 at 8:04 am

As a team of researchers from Bowling Green State University in western Ohio travel to Kenya, two BGSU students and one 2022 graduate are also working to perform individualized, high-level research of their own into a scientific issue that greatly impacts every day human life.Read More

Examining the Economic Feasibility of Digital Twins

Examining the Economic Feasibility of Digital Twins

Technology Perspectives, Water Management June 27, 2022 at 6:00 am

By Sandra DiMatteo From aging infrastructure and changing environmental regulations to funding gaps and climate-fueled natural disasters, water utilities around the globe face a range of problems in their effort to deliver reliable and affordable water to their communities. Their potential solutions are similarly wide-ranging,Read More

Transmission Line Condition Assessment

Transmission Line Condition Assessment

How Best Practices Discussed in ASCE’s MOP 134 Are Essential to Both Condition Assessment and Asset Management Personnel By George Ruchti In the early morning hours of August 19, 2000, a natural gas transmission pipeline ruptured and ignited in New Mexico killing 12 people campingRead More

San Jose Water gets CPUC approval for smart meters

San Jose Water gets CPUC approval for smart meters

AMR/AMI, Water Management June 23, 2022 at 1:30 pm

San Jose Water (SJW), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SJW Group (NYSE: SJW), announced recently that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved its request to deploy advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). SJW will be investing approximately $100 million over the next four years in thisRead More

First of four PFAS treatment facilities in Garden Grove begins operation

First of four PFAS treatment facilities in Garden Grove begins operation

Water Management June 23, 2022 at 7:00 am

The Orange County Water District (OCWD) and the City of Garden Grove, California, in May began operating one of four treatment plants being constructed in Garden Grove to remove per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from local well water. PFAS are a group of thousands of manmade,Read More

Riverside County water district files lawsuit against 3M, DuPont, others over PFAS

Riverside County water district files lawsuit against 3M, DuPont, others over PFAS

Water Management June 21, 2022 at 7:33 am

SL Environmental Law Group has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Rubidoux Community Services District against 3M Company, E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc., and other manufacturers of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) for their involvement in the manufacture and sale of per and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”)Read More