Innovative dam and levee design construction for sustainable water management is the theme of the United States Society of Dams 32nd annual meeting and conference, which will be held in New Orleans April 23-27.
Opportunities in the wastewater sector continue to grow, particularly in developing countries. Although large wastewater systems are being built around the globe, the market is changing, with new approaches to looking at wastewater and different mechanisms emerging for financing projects. According to Lux Research, a Boston-based research firm, the global wastewater market should reach $27.5 billion in 2012, with work divided roughly evenly between developed and developing countries. Glen Daigger, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Englewood, Colo.-based CH2M Hill, says that in 2010 the United Nations declared sanitation is a basic human right. Moreover, according to the
Plans to fast-track construction of Namibia’s largest dam received a major blow in late January when the state-run Tender Board cancelled a solicitation for the project.
The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous Feb. 22 decision overturning a Montana court ruling that had allowed state and federal agencies to claim ownership and regulatory control of non-navigable stretches of riverbed lands was hailed by opponents of the lower court opinion as a boost to needed transportation and energy infrastructure improvements.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers let contracts to repair two major breaches in Missouri River levees in late October, but it will be February before contracts go out for work with a four-month completion estimate on eight other jobs in higher life-safety risk areas.
In December, the Portland Water Bureau granted final approval to an estimated $27.5 million-$29.5 million project that involves modifications to a water intake tower in the Bull Run Reservoir, the Oregon city’s primary supply.
Construction of the $298-million Neckartal Dam in Namibia could be delayed after government officials failed to agree on a contractor selection between two contenders, China’s state-owned China Henan International Cooperation Group, or CHICO, and Italy’s Impregilo SPA.The 850-million-cu-meter dam will be built on the Fish River about 40 kilometers west of the city of Keetmapshoop.
A two-million-gallon water tank in Rochester, N.H., that last month lost half its contents to a steady leak will stay off-line while an accident probe continues, municipal officials say.
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