Category Archives: Wisconsin
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 3, 2013
Top Stories California: Raw sewage backed up into both clubhouse shower areas, the umpires’ room and all bathrooms on the clubhouse level, as well as both managers’ offices and the Mariners’ training room. The Angels filed a complaint about unsanitary … Continue reading
Posted in California, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin
Tagged aging infrastructure, business closures, clean water, epa, flooding, infrastructure needs, leaking infrastructure, obama infrastructure spending, raw sewage, service disruption, water main break, water pipeline
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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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Water News, January 9-15, 2013
Top Stories A leading organization of engineering professionals issued another warning Tuesday about the condition of the nation’s infrastructure, saying that current investment trends threaten millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in economic activity. A report commissioned by the … Continue reading
Posted in Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Uncategorized, Wisconsin
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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
