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Friday’s Water News: Lake George (N.Y.) to Borrow $1.7 Million for Sewer Line...
Top Story Lake George, New York is moving forward with a $1.7 million bond issuance to upgrade the village’s sewer lines. The state Department of Environmental Conservation has given Lake George until...
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Monday’s Water News: Water Main Break Closes Tulsa (Okla.) Casino
Top Story A casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma was closed yesterday after a water main which delivers water to the facility broke leading to a disruption in service. Efforts to resolve the problem were hampered...
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Tuesday’s Water News: Work Continues to Remove 32-Ton Boulder Sitting on...
Top Story With a massive sewage spill into the Mojave River under control in Victorville, California, a regional wastewater agency is focusing its attention on a separate problem just to the north: a...
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Wednesday’s Water News: Water Main Break in Albuquerque Turns Intersection...
Top Story An overnight water main break in Albuquerque, New Mexico turned a busy intersection into a virtual skating rink this morning after the break dumped hundreds of gallons of water onto the road...
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Thursday’s Water News: Study Shows Water Quality Concerns for Lackawanna River
Top Story In Pennsylvania, a new assessment of water quality in the Lackawanna River details a dramatic increase of pollutants in the waterway during storm events, evidence of the persistent problem of...
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Friday’s Water News: Big Sewer Rate Increases to Hit Kansas City
Top Story In Kansas City, sewer rate increases of 15 percent a year are projected through 2014, and increases of 13 percent a year could follow after that to help pay for a 25-year, $2.5 billion...
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Monday’s Water News: Missouri AG Files Lawsuit Over Clean Water Violations
Top Story Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has filed a lawsuit against the owner and operators of a wastewater treatment facility that serves a six-duplex residential facility for violations of...
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Tuesday’s Water News: EPA Grants Iowa Community $868,000 for Sewer Improvements
Top Story The EPA has awarded a $868,000 grant to help fund wastewater improvements in Clinton, Iowa. The grant will help fund a $3.9 million project that will include a lift station and 17,200 feet of...
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Wednesday’s Water News: 52 Homes in San Diego Lose Water Service After Main...
Top Story A water main ruptured underneath a San Diego intersection Tuesday afternoon, leaving dozens of homes temporarily without functional plumbing and shutting down traffic lanes around the break....
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Thursday’s Water News: NYC Completes Wastewater Treatment Upgrades at Cost of...
Top Story New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection has completed work on wastewater treatment plants in the Upstate communities of Grahamsville and Margaretville at a cost of $7.4...
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Friday’s Water News: Study Shows Iowa Waterways are Dirtier Than Ever
Top Story Iowa’s waterways are dirtier than ever according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources which classified 572 waterways as polluted in 2010. That’s the highest number since the agency...
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Monday’s Water News: President’s Budget Cuts Funding for Water and Wastewater...
Top Stories President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2012 budget includes $2.5 billion –a decrease of $947 million — combined for the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds (SRFs). The President’s...
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Tuesday’s Water News: Some Montgomery County (Penn.) Offices Relocated After...
Top Story Many Montgomery County, Pennsylvania employees returned to work at the Human Services Center in Norristown yesterday, three days after a water main break flooded first floor hallways and...
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Wednesday’s Water News: New $8.1M Wastewater Treatment Plant Set for Indian...
Top Story In California, construction is set to begin on Friday on a new $8.1 million wastewater treatment plant for the Tule River Indian Tribe. There is currently no sewage treatment on the...
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Thursday’s Water News: Number of Water Main Breaks in Kansas City Increases...
Top Story Last winter, Kansas City had 270 main breaks from November through the month of February. So far this winter — with February not even over yet — the city has experienced 467 main breaks, for...
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Friday’s Water News: $7 Million in Sewer Improvements On Tap for...
Top Story Jacksonville, Arkansas is scheduled to spend $3 million on construction this year to update its wastewater treatment plant. Also this year, the city plans to spend $4.2 million to construct...
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Monday’s Water News: House of Representatives Passes Bill Cutting Water...
Top Story On Friday, the House of Representatives passed legislation which would cut funding for the EPA’s SRF programs through the end of the fiscal year which ends on September 30. The SRF programs...
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Tuesday’s Water News: Study Suggests Greater Sewer Overflows for Great Lakes...
Top Story A new study from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee says climate change may bring heavier spring rains to communities across the Great Lakes which could cause some sewers to overflow more...
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Wednesday’s Water News: Detroit Looks To Upgrade its Water and Sewer Systems
Top Story Detroit looks to be getting more serious about addressing its decaying water and sewer infrastructure, and is asking the state to approve a 25-year, $814-million project to upgrade the...
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Thursday’s Water News: Indianapolis Airport Without Water After Main Break
Top Story A water main break turned off all water at the Indianapolis International Airport Wednesday night after its main water line broke. During the outage, there was no water in the main terminal...
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