A good partnership can be hard to find, but Wilmington, Del., knows precisely what it is looking for in a wastewater facility operator. The city recently hired Jacobs/OMI to operate its wastewater treatment plant, combined sewer overflow facility and renewable … Continue reading →
One of the most difficult duties of a city manager, or elected official, is the task of maintaining adequate water and sewer rates and increasing rates when necessary. Even the conversation of reviewing rates seems to create more citizen complaints … Continue reading →
“Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink” are perhaps the most quoted words from English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s immortal “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” This precious life-giving liquid is essential to our health and well-being — so much so that … Continue reading →
A reinforced concrete block wall, originally constructed 40 years ago for the Hiawassee Highlands, a single-family residential subdivision, showed rotation of instability that may impact the walking residents adjacent to a busy highway. The existing concrete block wall is positioned … Continue reading →
With Spring just around the corner, municipalities are gearing up for their annual spring cleanup. Months of salt, sand and brine lay on the road surfaces causing not only deterioration to the pavement but also damage to the environment. Cities … Continue reading →
Water quality isn’t limited to drinking water. St. Tammany Parish, a municipality in Louisiana, won the state’s only Outstanding Achievement Award for a forward-thinking decentralized management program. This program, funded in part by the Environmental Protection Agency, reduced pollution … Continue reading →
Sometimes we get where we are going in unexpected ways. Back in her undergraduate days, if someone had told Paula Ely that she would one day work as an operator at a wastewater treatment plant, she wouldn’t have believed it. … Continue reading →
Across the U.S., cities are pledging to reduce their carbon footprints and are embracing alternative fuels to meet extensive emission goals. Global Environmental Products, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of specialized street cleaning equipment, is bolstering these efforts by … Continue reading →
In becoming environmentally aware, cities are taking steps in every department to minimize the negative impact they can make on the planet. Moscow, Idaho, in particular, has uniquely supportive government when it comes to taking risks with new things that … Continue reading →
Global Environmental Products have achieved their vision of street sweepers that clean your streets with a high-performance, heavy-duty sweeping system, as well as being affordable, reliable with cutting-edge innovative technology – doing it all while producing ZERO EMISSIONS. Introducing the … Continue reading →
Circleville, Ohio, is named for its original shape, which was in turn crafted around a Hopewell earthwork erected between 100 B.C. and A.D. 500. Earthworks are manmade geometric elevations in land level and can memorialize the burial place of ancestors … Continue reading →
