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Archive for the ‘Aging Infrastructure’ Category

Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure

Monday, October 19th, 2009
Steve Allbee

PENN STATE PUBLIC BROADCASTING
“Liquid Assets, a ninety-minute documentary, tells the story of essential infrastructure systems: water, wastewater, and stormwater. These systems — some in the ground for more than 100 years — provide a critical public health function and are essential for economic development and growth. Largely out of sight and out of mind, these aging systems have not been maintained, and some estimates suggest this is the single largest public works endeavor in our nation’s history…”

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School Conditions in Byers, CO

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

“In an attempt to better understand the conditions of K-12 schools across Colorado, the Donnell-Kay Foundation, a Denver-based educational foundation, launched a wide-reaching assessment project…” (www.crumblingclassrooms.org)
Superintendent Tom Turrell of Byers school district in Colorado gives a tour of his district’s facilities and discusses the need improvement.

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It’s Time to Address our Nation’s Aging Water Systems

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

NACE INTERNATIONAL
“By the year 2020, 45% of all water and wastewater systems will be in poor condition and/or exceeding their designed life span…”

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How Infrastructure Investments Support the U.S. Economy: Employment, Productivity and Growth

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

ALLIANCE FOR AMERICAN MANUFACTURING
“With the rapid deterioration of economic conditions in recent months and rising unemployment, public investment is back on the policy agenda—as a job-creation program linked to the need to revitalize the nation’s crumbling infrastructure…”

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School Conditions in Lake County, CO

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Bette Bullock, superintendent of schools in Lake County, Colorado, gives a tour of facilities and discusses need for improvement. “In an attempt to better understand the conditions of K-12 schools across Colorado, the Donnell-Kay Foundation, a Denver-based educational foundation, launched a wide-reaching assessment project…” (www.crumblingclassrooms.org)

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: America’s Aging Infrastructure Desperately Needs an Overhaul

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES CENTER
“Federal funding for drinking water improvements has averaged less than 10 percent of total need for the last several years. The 20-year funding gap for drinking water capital, and operations and maintenance ranges from between $45 billion and $263 billion, depending on spending levels…”

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Re-Training America, Part 1

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

“The first of three installments of a documentary film done for a Political Science course at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, that examines the issue of transportation and energy usage, and promotes the diversification of the US transportation system through greater investment in rail and transit.”

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Electricity Outlook: Powering New York City’s Economic Future

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

NEW YORK BUILDING CONGRESS
“A critical threshold looms for the years 2010-2015, when projected electric capacity requirements for New York City and Long Island could fall “substantially below” the Statewide criteria…”

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Building Minds, Minding Buildings: Turning Crumbling Schools into Environments for Learning

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
“Every weekday, millions of children and school staff spend the day in buildings that can make them sick, injure them or diminish their productivity…”

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Reading Viaduct :: Philadelphia

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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Built by the Philadelphia and Reading Terminal Railroad 1893, it now sits quiet. photo: Jeremy Blakeslee

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