New Loan Fast-Forwards Newark’s Lead Water Pipe Replacement

$120-mil. loan will compress 10 years' work into 30 months, officials say

September 3, 2019

Elevated lead levels were discovered in drinking water samples in early 2017. Newark’s system provides approximately 80 million gallons per day to more than 300,000 customers.

Environmental Projects

Post-Flood Restoration Creates a More Resilient Big Thompson River

Brian Fryer

October 5, 2017

Environmental engineers and local stakeholders work to restore flood-damaged stretches of the Big Thompson Canyon.

New Urgencies Drive Fixes to Old Problems

The Flint, Mich., crisis raises clean water to national attention

Debra K. Rubin JT Long

November 2, 2016

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It took Flint, Mich.’s water issues, which rose to a crisis level last year with news of the city’s extensive lead-tainted supply, to catapult sector needs higher on legislative agendas and into the public consciousness.

ENR

Nov 11, 2019

Environmental activists have their work cut out for them as they focus their energies on eliminating embodied carbon— the building sector’s intangible climate adversary.

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