The 39-hour continuous installation of the 42-in. HDPE pipe is part of the larger Hampton Roads Sanitation District’s Boat Harbor Treatment Plant Conversion and Transmission program.

As federal appropriations season begins in earnest, the latest EPA Clean Watershed Survey shows an enormous need for funding—more than $630 billion. 

Work required under the terms of a newly signed consent decree is expected to cost about $400 million.

To upgrade treatment plant infrastructure that dates to 1920, crews built new digesters, membrane reactors and ultraviolet disinfection systems.

Privatized water-wastewater service providers in England have apologized for raw sewage discharges and face criticism over past financial decisions.

Firm announced in June it had been hired to work with the Portland, Maine, Water District to develop a master plan to evaluate current and future biosolids management.

Water reuse project will help keep pollutants out of the Truckee River and defer the need for an expensive treatment plant expansion.

When Daniel O’Connell’s Sons won the construction contract in 2018 for the $122-million York Street Pump Station and Connecticut River Crossing project in Springfield, Mass., the owner’s designer, Kleinfelder, suggested pipe jacking to launch three new wastewater conveyance pipelines at the pump station that would run under a railroad and flood wall before crossing the river and passing through a levee to the Springfield Water & Sewer Commission treatment facility in Agawam, Mass.

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee includes the funds in its part of $3.5T reconciliation package.