The dust has settled from a methane explosion last month that brought down the roof of a sludge concentration building at the Calumet water reclamation plant on Chicago’s far south side, but there is still uncertainty as to what triggered the blast.
The East Valley Water District has received approval and funding for a $126-million wastewater treatment plant that will produce high quality recycled water in Highland, Calif.
The Orange County Sanitation District has hired Black & Veatch to design the overhaul and upgrade of Wastewater Plant No. 2 in Huntington Beach, Calif.
The U.S. State Dept. is wading into environmental waters to address British Columbia mining pollution that affects a watershed in northwestern Montana, after a wastewater treatment plant intended to remove pollution appears to have worsened the problem.
Houston engineer Drew Molly kept the city's drinking water system operating by the skin of his teeth during Harvey. A new innovation hub looks to prevent such near misses.
For years, Chesapeake Bay has been the subject of dire reports: dwindling fish, crab and oyster populations, loss of native underwater grasses, eroding shorelines, murky water and algae blooms caused by excessive levels of nitrogen and phosphorus.
Environmentalists panned Montreal’s controversial decision to divert, for a week earlier this month, raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River to repair a key wastewater tunnel.
Contractors in Indianapolis are more than 60% complete with a three-year and roughly $100-million expansion of the city's Southport Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant.