Albion is located in south-central Michigan. Tenney Peabody, Albion’s first permanent settler, arrived in 1833. In 1835, other early settlers…
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Mar 8 2018
Eight 10-by-40-ft Easi-Span all-precast concrete roof panels were erected in one day.
Precast concrete buildings have proven to be functional and…
Feb 25 2018
Salisbury-Rowan Utilities in Salisbury, N.C., prides itself on providing excellent customer service. While its commercial and industrial customers…
Feb 25 2018
Sour gas and sour water are terms used to describe gas and water containing significant amounts of hydrogen sulfide. Sour water and sour gas…
Feb 23 2018
Faced with rising operating costs due to increasing energy and chemical prices as well as stricter effluent permit limits, many operators and…
Feb 23 2018
Replacing a full supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system is a big undertaking, and for Western Municipal Water District, Ignition by…
Feb 22 2018
The city of Moline, Ill., is located in the heart of the Midwest, tucked between the banks of the Mississippi and Rock rivers. Moline is one of four…
Feb 21 2018
Branford, Conn., was first settled in mid-1644 as part of the New Haven Colony and officially renamed in 1653 after the town of Brentford, England.…
Feb 20 2018
Dow Chemical’s Oyster Creek Gulfstream plant in Freeport, Texas, is the largest propylene production facility built specifically for that purpose.…
Feb 8 2018
Renewable Water Resources (ReWa) is a wastewater treatment agency in Greenville, S.C., that serves Greenville and parts of Laurens, Anderson, Pickens…
Feb 7 2018
North Ridgeville is a warm, neighborly and growing city of 32,483 located in Lorain County in Northeast Ohio. It was founded in 1810 and incorporated…
Feb 7 2018
Industrial plants are known for being loud, acoustically raucous environments. The combination of high ceilings, reflective surfaces and output from…
Feb 7 2018
Norfolk Southern has a history of nearly two centuries of service that has linked communities and customers to the marketplace of the world. The…
Jan 22 2018
The main lift station serving the wastewater treatment plant in Morgan’s Point, Texas, continually experienced problems with its three standard non-…
Jan 8 2018
The Otay River Pump Station (ORPS), which pumps 7 to 9 million gal per day (mgd) of raw sewage to the South Bay Water Reclamation Facility for water…
Jan 7 2018
An international oil and gas company that operates a liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal on Italy’s Adriatic Sea coast recently encountered a problem…
Dec 13 2017
Seeking to update its SCADA system, the city of Ottawa ditched its radio communications for a cloud-based system that can be accessed from mobile…
Dec 12 2017
The water municipality of a mid-size city in the Western region of the U.S. serving a population of approximately 180,000 people needed to address a…
Dec 11 2017
The City of Geneva, Ohio, is in Ashtabula County, east of Cleveland, along Lake Erie. Founded in 1816, this picturesque city is now home to 7,000…
Dec 10 2017
In the summer of 2014, Placer County Water Agency (PCWA) in California was facing a trihalomethane (THM) crisis. Drought across the western United…
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In April 2014, the city of Flint, Mich., in order to cut costs, switched its water supply sourced from Lake Huron and the Detroit River via the…
Apr 25 2018
On April 24, 2018, the U.S. EPA and the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board announced that the East Bay Municipal Utility District…
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