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APWA Elects Officers, Board Members

George Crombie, MPA, of Plymouth, Mass., was elected president of the American Public Works Association (APWA) during th...

October 19, 2010
News
WEFTEC 2010 Sets New Exhibition Record in New Orleans

A total of 17,515 water professionals and 984 exhibiting companies occupying a record breaking 295,295 net sq ft of exhi...

October 15, 2010
News
WSSC Seeks Contractors for Project

The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission seeks contractors for large trenchless rehab project....

October 14, 2010
News
WERF Offers More than $1 Million in Total Funding for...

WERF is now accepting proposals under the cooperative agreement Innovation and Research for Water Infrastructure for the...

October 13, 2010
News
Kevin Fox Named CEO of Laney Directional Drilling

Laney Directional Drilling Co. (Laney), a leading provider of horizontal directional drilling services to the energy, te...

October 12, 2010
Canada
Calgary, Canada-based Pure Technologies Ltd. Finalizes Acquisition of Aqua Environmental...

Calgary, Canada-based Pure Technologies Ltd. announced Oct. 5 that it has concluded the purchase of Aqua Environmental P...

October 6, 2010
Archives
A Lateral Challenge:

Claude H. Nix Construction/Jasco Inc. (C.H. Nix), Ogden, Utah, is one of the premier trenchless contractors in the Rocky...

October 1, 2010
Archives
ASCE Pipelines 2010 Conference a Huge Success

The ASCE Pipelines 2010 Conference held in Keystone, Colo., from Aug. 28-Sept. 1, was a huge success....

October 1, 2010
Canada
CH2M Hill’s Daigger Takes Office as President of IWA

CH2M HILL, a global full-service consulting, design, construction and operations firm, has announced that Glen Daigger,...

October 1, 2010
News
Radiodetection Wins International Utility Locate Rodeo 2010

Radiodetection was a winner again at this year’s ninth annual International Utility Locate Rodeo, an event that took p...

October 1, 2010
News
Pure Technologies Ltd. Finalizes Purchase of Aqua Environmental

Pure Technologies Ltd. announced Oct. 5 that it has concluded the purchase of Aqua Environmental Pty. Ltd. for up to CAD...

October 1, 2010
News
SAK Construction Awarded $3 Million CIPP Project

The City of Chattanooga, Tenn., has awarded a $3 million CIPP contract to SAK Construction for wastewater collection sys...

October 1, 2010
News
Geotechnology Inc. Acquires Memphis Engineering Firm

Geotechnology Inc.— a leading provider of geotechnical and environmental engineering, materials testing, geophysics an...

October 1, 2010
News
Louisiana Tech Hosts Leaders from China

The Trenchless Technology Center (TTC) at Louisiana Tech University recently hosted a delegation from China’s largest...

October 1, 2010
News
Construction Unemployment Continues to Grow

Despite being in the height of the construction season, the nation’s nonresidential building construction sector shed...

October 1, 2010
News
Saving Money, Time & the Environment Through Chemistry

In an effort to demonstrate the importance of chemistry in directional drilling mud recycling systems, Kem-Tron Technolo...

October 1, 2010
Directional Drilling
Case Study: Escambia Superfund Site in Pensacola, Fla.

In the summer 2009, Directed Technologies Drilling Inc. (DTD) installed one of its longest horizontal remediation wells...

October 1, 2010
Directional Drilling
DrillMaster: New Methods for Gravity Sewers

If we in the infrastructure business — whether municipality, contractor, consultant or equipment supplier — are to l...

October 1, 2010
Directional Drilling
Vacuum Truck Maintenance

When it comes to using a vacuum truck, you not only want full productivity and optimum performance, you also want to ext...

October 1, 2010
Pipe Cleaning
Grease Is the Word

The City of Alexandria, La., has taken a proactive approach in dealing with the fats, oils and grease (FOGs) that have s...

October 1, 2010