CH2M HILL has been awarded a contract by the City of San Diego Public Utilities Department to provide optimization consulting services to streamline the city?s water and wastewater operations. The optimization program will provide a blend of operations, management and engineering capabilities to increase operationalRead More

Last week, the Truckee Meadows Water Authority (TMWA) in Nevada was awarded the ?Directors Award of Recognition? from the Partnership for Safe Water (Partnership). With this award, TMWA?s Chalk Bluff Water Treatment Plant ranks among the highest performing water treatment plants in the country, producingRead More

Keith Hanks, a senior environmental engineer for the City of Los Angeles? Wastewater Conveyance Engineering Division will be retiring effective Sept. 21, 2013. Hanks began his 28-year career with Los Angeles in August 1985 as a civil engineering assistant with the Wastewater Program of theRead More

In the largest bond act ever proposed for approval by New York voters, State Sen. Mark J. Grisanti introduced legislation Wednesday for Albany to borrow $5 billion for a range of environmental infrastructure improvements across the state.

WATERiD has announced the establishment of its Industry Advisory Board, which is comprised of the Founding Gold Members from the industry: Applied Felts; Arcadis; Echologics; and Reline America. The board also includes WATERiD?s Founding Member Utilities: the Town of Blacksburg, Virginia; the City of Lynchburg, Virginia; and Aurora Water, Colo.

IDModeling, Inc. (IDM) has announced the commercial release of Sedaru? (See Data Run), software developed by water industry professionals to transform connectivity and communication in the industry and empower people as ?the true smart water network.?

American Water announced last month that Joe Goodwill, a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts ? Amherst, has been chosen as the recipient of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) 2013 American Water Scholarship. The scholarship is an annual award of $5,000 presented to a graduate level student to assist with the development of professionals interested in service to the water industry.

CH2M HILL, as part of a team with Brown and Caldwell, has been awarded an $80 million contract by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) to provide planning and engineering services for the Southeast Plant Biosolids Digester Facilities Project, a $1.5-billion capital investment thatRead More

The Water Environment Federation (WEF) will debut the inaugural Stormwater Congress this October in Chicago, Ill. Featuring an extensive line-up of stormwater programming, world-class speakers and dedicated exhibit space, this new event offers attendees the best of both worlds by co-locating with WEFTEC 2013, theRead More

Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for smart wet infrastructure, announced last week that the North Davis Sewer District (NDSD, Utah) has selected the company?s industry-leading InfoMaster Sewer as its enterprise smart asset management solution. The move will provide theRead More