Sewer

Storm Water Solutions & Tunnelling Journal - Mon November 16, 2020

Rhode Island's Pawtucket Tunnel Project to Alleviate Bay Pollution

The final stage of a massive storm water runoff and sewage collection and treatment project was set in motion by Rhode Island's Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) at an Oct. 13 online meeting....

Katherine Devlin – CEG Editorial Assistant - Tue September 29, 2020

Lametti & Sons Improves Minneapolis Wastewater System

Metropolitan Council Environmental Services (MCES), operator of the metro-area wastewater collection and treatment system, is making improvements to the existing and aging sanitary sewer system in Minneapolis....

AEM - Mon August 10, 2020

SAE Vacuum Excavation and Sewer Cleaning Equipment Standards Published

SAE has published a second standard for vacuum excavators and sewer cleaning equipment with the publication of J3107 to complement the already published J3106 Standard. The members of AEM's AEM's Underground Equipment Manufacturers Committee (UEMC) understood the need for standards for the growing vacuum excavation equipment industry....

Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 01, 2020

Innovation, Green Infrastructure Resolves Flooding

In 2017, Astra-Rohadfox UPC JV LP, a joint venture between Astra Group and Rohadfox Construction Control Services Corporation, was selected to deliver the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management's (DWM) Upper Proctor Creek Capacity Relief Facility and the Trust for Public Land's (TPL) Rodney Cook Sr....

Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 01, 2020

$2B DigIndy Project Improves Water Quality in Indianapolis

Constructed 250-ft. beneath the city, a 28-mi. long stretch of 18-ft. diameter deep rock tunnels will dramatically reduce the threat to public health and the environment in Indianapolis, Ind. The DigIndy project is part of a $2 billion effort to reduce combined sewer overflows into area waterways....

Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed August 21, 2019

$153M Dugway Storage Tunnel Nears Completion

One of the key elements of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District's (NEORSD) Project Clean Lake is the $153 million, 14,000-foot-long (2.8 mi.) Dugway Storage Tunnel, which is being constructed by the Salini Impregilo/Lane Construction JV (Salini Impregilo S.p.A....

Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue June 25, 2019

Crews Near Halfway Point in Storage Tunnel Project

Part of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District's (NEORSD) Project Clean Lake, the $142.3 million Doan Valley Storage Tunnel project (DVT) has McNally/Kiewit DVT JV (McNally Tunneling Corp. and Kiewet Corporation) constructing three tunnels to help deal with combined sewer overflows (CSO) and have it treated....

Providence Journal - Thu December 06, 2018

Narragansett Bay Commission Invited to Apply for EPA Infrastructure Financing

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting the Narragansett Bay Commission (NBC) to apply for a $251 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan to make infrastructure improvements to control combined sewer overflows (CSOs) as a part of NBC's continuing CSO program....

Chuck Harvey - Wed October 24, 2018

Crews Upgrade Aging Tunnel in Laguna Beach

Crews continue working on an $80 million project to enlarge and stabilize a 2-mi., 62-year-old tunnel containing a new 24-in. sewer pipeline in Laguna Beach, Calif. Workers are enlarging the tunnel that runs from Three Arch Bay to Aliso Beach from an average diameter of 6 ft....

Jennifer Rupp – CEG Correspondent - Fri July 06, 2018

Tunnel to Mitigate Chronic Sewer Flooding

Since the early 1900s, Washington, D.C. , has battled chronic sewer flooding from an undersized sewer system not built for the boom of the District. Currently, there is a 50 percent chance that flooding could occur in any given year and there are six areas that are plagued by continuous overflow....