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July 2010
Station Arrival: Storm Water Management
  Located in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia, the SEPTA R8 Fox Chase Line facility now has somewhat of a resurrection story in its 100-year history. Originally constructed by the Reading Co. in 1906, the Olney train station was decommissioned...
The Worth of Water
World Water Week (March 22 to 26) gave me the opportunity to chair a national dialogue in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the educational nonprofit Clean Water America Alliance on “What’s Water Worth?” Celebrity water guru Robert Glennon, author of “...
Deferring Maintenance...Indefinitely?
  It seems that there is a water main break just about every hour in some part of the country. Two hundred and forty thousand water main breaks per year occur in the U.S., to be more specific, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (...
Optimizing Operations
A decentralized Aqua-Aerobic membrane bioreactor (MBR) system is being field tested at the Colorado School of Mines' Advanced Water Technology Center to treat one of the campus' housing community domestic wastewater sources (about 400 apartments). The...

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