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Report Card 2011: Bay Area Infrastructure

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
American Society of Civil Engineers

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

Since the last update of the American Society of Civil Engineer (ASCE)’s Bay Area Infrastructure Report Card in 2005, we have seen several major infrastructure failures: the gas line explosion in San Bruno, California with major loss of life in 2010; wastewater discharges from Marin County into the San Francisco Bay; and a collapse of the Interstate Route 35 Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota with significant loss of life in 2007. All of these are classic examples of aging infrastructure allowed to perform without sufficiently funded monitoring, rehabilitation, and replacement programs.

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Improved Wastewater Treatment to Meet Increasing Water Demands

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

To reach the ever growing demands for water in the Orange County Water District, Siemens was able to come up with a cost efficient and environmentally sound solution – Memcor®. This is a submerged membrane microfiltration system, supplying 87MGD (329 MLD) of water to a reverse osmosis unit, followed by advanced oxidation. It makes groundwater […]

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My Water’s On Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song)

Friday, May 13th, 2011

“My Water’s On Fire Tonight” is a product of Studio 20 NYU (http://bit.ly/hzGRYP) in collaboration with ProPublica.org (http://bit.ly/5tJN). The song is based on ProPublica’s investigation on hydraulic fractured gas drilling (read the full investigation here: http://bit.ly/15sib6).

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Cecilia Estolano, Chief Strategist on State and Local Initiatives, Green For All

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Estolano, Cecilia

As Green For All’s Chief Strategist on State and Local Initiatives, Cecilia Estolano oversees the organization’s State and Local Initiatives Team and Capital Access Program. She is charged with spearheading Green For All’s effort to scale public-private partnerships to grow family-supporting green jobs in cities across the United States, and advocates for broad access and opportunity in all sectors of the clean-energy economy.

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Oklahoma TV: Crumbling Infrastructure Around the World

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Infrastructure is vital to the American economy; but too often, out of sight is out of mind.

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Infra Up Close

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
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Blogineering: 50 Infra Resources

Monday, November 15th, 2010
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA

Blogineering, a site that focuses on providing a “sanctum where engineers and those interested…can find advice, hacks, and commentary on many of the important engineering topics of the day” has posted an article entitled: “50 Must-See Report Cards, Studies, and Infographs on America’s Crumbling Infrastructure.” The article offers up a list of resources that discuss […]

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Video: Decentralized Water Systems

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Approaches to Onsite Management – National Environmental Services Center 2002 – Product DPDVMG56 – Produced with funding by the EPA, this video details approaches to Onsite Management. The National Environmental Services Center (NESC) exists to assist small and rural communities with their drinking water, wastewater, environmental training, solid waste, infrastructure security, and utility management needs and to help them find solutions to problems they face. Noncommercial use only.
-PublicResourceOrg on YouTube

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Video: Burying Water Infrastructure

Monday, August 30th, 2010

REMU WL 160 waterpipes Backfilling
From MichaelAnkarhorn on YouTube

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IN HARM’S WAY: Lack Of Federal Coal Ash Regulations Endangers Americans And Their Environment

Monday, August 30th, 2010
Contaminants

ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT
An investigation led by expert hydrogeologists has identified 39 more coal combustion waste (CCW) disposal sites in 21 states that have contaminated groundwater or surface water with toxic metals and other pollutants. Their analysis is based on monitoring data and other information available in state agency files and builds on a report released in February of 2010, which documented similar damage at 31 coal combustion waste dumpsites in 14 states. When added to the 67 damage cases that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has already acknowledged, the total number of sites polluted by coal ash or scrubber sludge comes to at least 137 in 34 states. This total represents nearly a three-fold increase in the number of damage cases identified in EPA’s 2000 Regulatory Determination on the Wastes from the Combustion of Fossil Fuels.

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