The city of Flint and Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) are scrambling to address a drinking-water-supply crisis that went on for months before local officials admitted lead levels in the water were dangerously high.
French engineering, design and project management firm Artelia has been picked to replace Deltares—an independent Dutch institute for applied research in water and subsurface—in a contract to study the impact of the $4 billion Great Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the flow of the Nile River.
Originally constructed in the 1960s, the facility underwent an extensive upgrade to comply with Connecticut’s stringent new statewide nitrogen removal requirements, which are designed to improve water quality in the Long Island Sound.
Officials from various water-related entities highlighted some of the problems associated with the historic drought that is plaguing much of the western U.S.—as well as some solutions to address it—at Engineering News-Record’s second annual Western Water Conference.
As part of an emergency program to alleviate chronic neighborhood flooding, a one-acre underground cell at the century-old McMillan Slow Sand Filtration Site was converted into a temporary stormwater storage basin.
The $105.5-million wastewater treatment expansion project for the city of Chandler increased capacity at the facility to 22 million gallons per day from 15 million.
In 2010, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District launched a $52-million design-build project to repair nine work areas at six dilapidated jetties and dikes along the 750-mile Texas coastline.
