Category Archives: New York
Water Infustructure Needs of the Week
SYRACUSE, New York — The mayor of Syracuse has told the U.S. Senate public works committee that the city is averaging more than one water main break a day because many of the pipes were installed more than a century … Continue reading
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Water News as of September 13
Top Stories Maryland: All of the ports on the East Coast “have to get in the game,” Vice President Joe Biden said Monday, and get ready to accept larger cargo ships that will come through an expanded Panama Canal by 2015. … Continue reading
Water News as of August 9
Top Stories Wisconsin: A bipartisan group of governors vented Saturday about the challenges of rebuilding the nation’s aging infrastructure in a time of tight budgets and partisan paralysis in Congress. In Congress this week, a bipartisan federal bill dealing in … Continue reading
Water News as of July 26
Top Stories New York: New Yorkers and tourists tempted to cool off during the current heatwave by plunging into the Hudson River have been warned: it’s never been more dangerous. Researchers at Columbia University reported Thursday that antibiotic-resistant bacteria was … Continue reading
Posted in Illinois, Maryland, New York, Ohio, South Carolina
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Water News as of June 21, 2013
Top Stories EPA’s Fifth Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey and Assessment, released June 4, reports that $384 billion in improvements are needed for the nation’s drinking water infrastructure through 2030 for systems to continue providing safe drinking water to 297 … Continue reading
Posted in Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, National, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Virginia, Washington
Tagged aging infrastructure, clean water, epa, flooding, leaking infrastructure, raw sewage, road closures, sewage spill, sink holes, water main breaks
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Water News For May 17, 2013
A note from the Clean Water Council: In 2011 CNN reported that 700 water main breaks occur in the United States every day–many experts believe that is a conservative number. In 2011, Houston, alone, reported 700 water main breaks in … Continue reading
Posted in District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, National, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Uncategorized, Washington
Tagged aging infrastructure, clean water, infrastructure needs, leaking underground pipes, road closures, sewage spill, sink holes, water main break, water treatment plant, WRDA
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Water News, April 19, 2013
Top Stories Washington, DC: “Every $1 billion dollar invested in water/wastewater infrastructure could create $27,000 jobs,” NUCA president Florentino Gregorio (Anchor Construction, Washington, DC), said in his April 16 testimony before the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies House … Continue reading
Posted in District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Uncategorized, Wisconsin
Tagged aging infrastructure, drinking water, leaking infrastructure, raw sewage, sewage spill, sewer overflow, sink holes, water main break
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Water News, March 7-21, 2013
Top Stories National: On March 20, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously approved S.601, the Water Resources Development Act of 2013. The bill provides critical flood protection for communities across the country, maintains the flow of commerce, funds … Continue reading
Posted in Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, National, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Uncategorized, Wisconsin
Tagged aging infrastructure, business closures, clean water, create jobs, drinking water, flooding, infrastructure funding, infrastructure report card, pipe repair, road closures, service disruption, water infrastructure, water main break, WRDA
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Clean Water Weekly, February 13-27
Top News National: On February 14, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2013 (WIFIA). The bill would create jobs by helping local communities upgrade or replace aging and damaged water and sewer systems, … Continue reading
Posted in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, National, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio
Tagged aging infrastructure, create jobs, Delaney American Infrastructure Fund, drinking water, EPA Grants, infrastructure investment, leaking underground pipes, obama infrastructure spending, raw sewage, road closures, sewage spill, sewer overflow, sink holes, upgrade infrastructure, wastewater, water, water main break, water treatment plant, WIFIA
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News for December 26 – January 2, 2013
Top Stories Oklahoma: The infrastructure crisis the small town of Konoawa is facing is typical of what small towns around the county are facing with the rapidly aging treatment plants and pipelines that need to be replaced. With generous federal … Continue reading
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