John Hennessy III,
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Transportation for America’s Director James Corless: “Our country’s association of civil engineers continues to do the yeoman’s work of sounding the alarm on our country’s infrastructure — the roads, rails and waterways that we depend on to move our goods from place to place and get us where we need to go each day. But […]
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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Once every four years, America’s civil engineers provide a comprehensive assessment of the nation’s major infrastructure categories in ASCE’s Report Card for America’s Infrastructure (Report Card). Using a simple A to F school report card format, the Report Card provides a comprehensive assessment of current infrastructure conditions and needs, both assigning grades and making recommendations for how to raise the grades. An Advisory Council of ASCE members assigns the grades according to the following eight criteria: capacity, condition, funding, future need, operation and maintenance, public safety, resilience, and innovation. Since 1998, the grades have been near failing, averaging only Ds, due to delayed maintenance and underinvestment across most categories.
Bob Wendelgass has been President and CEO of Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund since November of 2010. Prior to that, he spent five years as National Deputy Director for Clean Water Action, working with its state offices on planning and implementation of campaigns, elections and fundraising. He also served 15 years as Pennsylvania […]
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Tom Curtis is Deputy Executive Director of Government Affairs for the American Water Works Association (AWWA). Prior to assuming this position, Curtis served for more than twenty years with several public policy associations, including Director of the Natural Resources Committee of the National Governors’ Association, and Deputy Director for Intergovernmental Liaison with the Environmental Council […]
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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Infrastructure is the physical framework upon which the U.S. economy operates and the nation’s standard of living depends. Everything depends on this framework, including transporting goods, powering factories, heating and cooling office buildings, and enjoying a glass of clean water.
Brought to you by www.DigLosOsos.com. These men are employees of W.A. Rasic, a contractor for the Los Osos Wastewater Project. The video was shot in November 2012 on Los Osos Valley Road during construction hours. For more information, or if you have any questions about the construction phase of the Los Osos Wastewater Project, visit […]
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XYLEM
The 2012 Xylem Value of Water Index found that nearly all Americans (90 percent) consider water an important service on par with electricity and heat. They recognize that demands on the nation’s water resources are growing.
The New York Times Sunday EditorialDecember 9th, 2012 Across the coasts of New York and New Jersey, hundreds of millions of gallons of raw and partially treated sewage are spilling into waterways and the ocean. The immediate cause is equipment damage from Hurricane Sandy, but as Michael Schwirtz recently reported in The Times, aging plants […]
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STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE
In 1998 the EPA adopted the Clean Water Action Plan, which stated that excessive nutrient pollution results in greater than expected growth of macrophytes or phytoplankton, and potentially harmful algae blooms or outbreaks leading to declining oxygen levels, an imbalance among aquatic species, public health risks, and a general degradation of the aquatic resource. The “Key Action” for addressing nutrient over-enrichment was a requirement that states develop and implement numeric limits on the amount of so-called “nutrients” – phosphorus and nitrogen – allowed in waterbodies by the year 2004.
Hurricane Sandy has tested our infrastructure in many ways. Users are urged to visit Show Us Your Infra! for eye-witness videos of the storm’s aftermath.
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