This report is directed at directed at developing an understanding of frost heaves in relationship to the lifting of buried objects such as shallow sewers. This report shows that a lumped porosity model can generates an accurate comparison with experiments and is a feasible tool for the investigation of the...
Earlier this month, the New York Daily News and WCBS-TV's evening newscast both jumped on story involving "sewer lizards." It sounded like a sequel to the Big Apple's alligator "urban legend" of earlier this summer. The m ...
Albany was set to end its legislative session this week without approving a measure to create a sewer and storm water authority in Nassau, dealing a major blow to County Executive Tom Suozzi's plan for fiscal recovery.
Four contracts were awarded to Insituform Technologies Inc. They were awarded a $2.8 million contract to rehabilitate more than five and three-quarter miles of Westchester County sewers. The contract is part of a county-wide effort to reduce the infi Four contracts were awarded to Insituform Technologies...
Apr. 12--Motorola Inc. has the land to build a multibillion-dollar semiconductor plant in Goochland County. Now it must secure the water and sewer, electricity, natural gas and telecommunications networks to give the plant life. Apr. 12--Motorola Inc. has the land to build a multibillion-dollar semiconductor...
Billion-dollar bond proposals that promise improved schools and sewers and new business for construction companies are poised to start moving through the Legislature. A $2 billion school and sewer proposal in the Senate and a $1 billion sewer-infr Billion-dollar bond proposals that promise...
Byline: Bruce Geiselman Many of the nation's growing cities face a budgetary and environmental crisis - aging sewage infrastructure that wasn't built to meet today's environmental standards. The cities facing the largest problems are con ...
GM Contracting is a Lake Crystal, MI-based contractor that specializes in the construction of water, sewer and storm sewer projects. In Apr 1999, it became one the first contractors to acquire a directional drilling machine for use in its water and sewer GM Contracting is a Lake Crystal, MI-based contractor...
Byline: Bruce Geiselman Several members of the Senate environment committee last week expressed concerns about the 2004 budget of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to the agency's Administrator Christine Whitman. The EPA is reques ...
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency expects to send a draft rule banning acrylamide-based sewer grouts to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review and clearance by late August. An EPA official says the agency decided to proceed with ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency...
The Bureau of Environmental Services has begun installing service laterals near Northwest 23rd Avenue and Irving Street. The project is replacing old sewer pipes in Northwest Irving Street between 24th and 22nd avenues and in Northwest Flanders Street between Westover Street and 23rd Avenue. Construction on N.W....
A decision on whether to purchase $3.7 million of land at Battle Creek Golf Course was postponed by Salem City Council on Monday in lieu of acquiring more information. The council was prepared to buy 40 acres of the southern portion of the former golf course, which...
Milwaukee has to re-bid its latest street project that features special storm-water collection systems because there was an error in the only bid that was within budget. Only two companies tried to win the contract to landscape rain gardens that include underground water-collection basins. The project...
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'AA' rating to the town of Trumbull, Connecticut's $18.2 million general obligation GO bonds, issue of 2008, and an 'F1+' rating to the town's $5.5 million of GO bond anticipation notes BANs. The bonds and BANs, which are payable from an unlimited...
A WOMAN of 55 just had quadruplets in India and they're calling it a miracle. It's a miracle alright, a miracle she hasn't fled, screaming, into the night. Listen, babies are a lot of hard work. I had my daughter at 21...
CHICAGO & NEW YORK -- In the course of routine surveillance, Fitch affirms the 'A-' rating on Canal Winchester, Ohio's outstanding $5.02 million sanitary sewer first mortgage revenue refunding bonds, series 2004. The Rating Outlook is Stable. Fitch issued an exposure draft on July 31, 2008 proposing a...
AUSTIN, Texas -- Fitch Ratings, as part of ongoing surveillance, has affirmed the 'A' rating for Clawson School District, Michigan's approximately $2.3 million in outstanding general obligation GO school building and site bonds unlimited tax, series 1998. The Rating Outlook is Stable. Note: Fitch issued an exposure draft...
New Berlin will set off a string of borrowing when it taps its water utility's cash reserve to pay Milwaukee $1.5 million in a water sale agreement. If that drains the water utility's reserve money, a portion of which covers construction projects in New Berlin, the...
JEA and Baseline Consulting Will Accept the Award at TDWI World Conference August 18 in San Diego, California SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. -- Baseline Consulting, one of the industry's premier IT services firms, announced today that its client JEA, Florida's largest municipal utility and the nation's eleventh largest, has...