Grazing fiber optic wires, a mistake during a routine new business water main installation cost Monterey Park $85,000 in settlement costs — an addition to $836,300 in water and sewer claims in [...]
According to PhillyVoice on August 31st: Philly's infrastructure problem may be even worse than you think. There have been 2019 sinkholes reported this year – around one for every mile of road [...]
According to Hamilton Journal News on August 23rd: The city of Fairfield will spend at least $3 million to upgrade its aging water infrastructure in the near future, while at the same [...]
According to The Boston Globe on August 21st: The state’s aging natural gas pipelines are riddled with about 20,000 potentially dangerous and environmentally damaging leaks, many decades old, according to the first [...]
According to CNBC on August 20th: One-third of the country is in a drought, according to the federal government, affecting 95 million people. Despite the urgency, America is still losing a lot [...]
According to the Los Angeles Times on August 15th: Almost 19,500 Southern California Edison customers in Long Beach were left without electricity early Saturday morning after an underground cable failed, the utility reported. [...]
According to MLive updated on August 10th: Bob Dion, Bay City's water distribution supervisor, is still trying to forget about a taxing three-day search for the source of a water main break [...]
According to The Christian Science Monitor on August 4th: Brooklyn, N.Y. is not very used to seeing sinkholes, but Tuesday morning, roads at an intersection caved in, forming a hole 20 feet wide [...]
According to Underground Construction Magazine on July 2015: Even as prolonged drought grips California, the state of water and wastewater infrastructure and how to finance capital improvements continue to top the list [...]
According to The Washington Post on July 18th: Just about every jurisdiction in the Washington area has seen increases in taxes or utility fees in recent years, part of an effort to [...]
According to Daily Press updated on July 13th: While water pipelines are judged to have a useful life of 50 to 100 years, much of America's infrastructure is falling behind recommended replacement [...]
According to WCPO on July 1st: A massive problem is growing out of sight in Greater Cincinnati that’s draining government coffers, squeezing family budgets and threatens the future of a system we [...]
According to ABC5 on June 26th: The road is back open and water has been restored after a messy and dangerous situation was created on E. 71st Street. A water main break [...]
According to CBS4 on June 23rd: Water main breaks shut down streets for hours Tuesday and left almost a hundred customers without water. If you thought water main breaks were exclusive to [...]
According to Newsnet5 on June 19th: Northeast Ohio water customers and millions across the country are paying for water that never reaches their faucet. Every community and every neighborhood across Northeast Ohio [...]
According to Patch Media on May 4th: Helicopter crews for Pacific Gas and Electric Company soar over Northern California nearly every day, looking for digging crews along portions of the agency’s 6,750 [...]
According to WaterWorld Magazine: After working around the clock for more than 100 years, the nation's water infrastructure is aging and failing. For example, in America today, a water main breaks every [...]
According to Fox 19 Now: Out of sight and often out of mind – it's a vast network of pipes, wells, and pump stations stretching from one end of Cincinnati to the [...]
According to NBC Bay Area: The drought has Californians feeling the pressure to conserve water, but some century-old pipes may be thwarting these efforts. The government’s bank account is also running dry [...]
According to CINewsNow.com: A third water main break in as many days in the city of Peoria and it could be symptomatic of aging infrastructure. Rogers said aging infrastructure in Peoria is [...]
