The Senate Finance Committee has approved lifting the cap on the amount that cities may raise through private activity bonds for water and wastewater projects. The Senate is set to vote on the measure soon.
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When a 6-million-gallon raw water tank in Muscogee County, Ga. collapsed in 2009, Columbus Water Works (CWW) faced a sizeable cleanup job, diminished emergency water reserves and a fast-track rebuild project.
Read More20 years after the WEB Water Development Association installed more than 100 miles of AMERICAN ductile iron pipe, forming the association’s original transmission line, WEB and AMERICAN hooked up again to expand a water treatment plant and add five miles of ductile iron pipe to the system.
Read MoreFollowing extensive improvements at the Draper Water Treatment Plant, four miles of AMERICAN 48-inch ductile iron pipe were installed to increase water transmission and distribution. That was the first of four pipeline construction phases totaling roughly 16 miles of new 48-inch pipelines planned to be installed between the Draper Plant and the still-developing water distribution network outside Oklahoma City. AMERICAN also supplied valves and fire hydrants that were installed in conjunction with the first four miles of pipeline.
Read MoreThe $50 million Lake Region Water Treatment Plant allowed three cities to end their reliance on Lake Okeechobee as a water source, providing relief to the lake in drought conditions. The Lake Region facility is located in western Palm Beach County and has a production capacity of 10 million gallons per day. Drawing water from the Upper Floridan aquifer instead of Lake Okeechobee, it serves Belle Glade, Pahokee and South Bay, eliminating or reducing future withdrawals from the lake by those communities.
Read MoreThe Lake Barkley Transmission Main consists of a new intake and pump station on Lake Barkley, with a line running 27 miles from there to a 220-million-gallon reservoir in Hopkinsville. A major part of the project was the purchase of the right-of-way of the abandoned Tennessee Central/ICG railroad bed between Hopkinsville and Gracey. That right-of-way represents roughly half of the 27 miles traversed by the transmission line.
Read MoreThe $8.5 million pipe installation is part of a $105 million program that will eventually entail a large pump station at the low point of one of the city’s drainage canal systems. The pump station will be used to pump flood water, when necessary, through triple-barrel 84-inch steel pipe line over the levee and into the Mississippi River. The Harahan work was particularly difficult because of serious safety issues, groundwater and poor soil.
Read MoreThe Columbus Water Works (CWW) and Fort Benning signed an agreement in 2004 calling for CWW to provide the military base water and wastewater services for 50 years. Fort Benning’s water and wastewater systems were subsequently connected with CWW’s, and several large upgrades were begun.
Read MoreAMERICAN spiral-welded steel pipe for mega projects in New York includes more than a mile of 144-diameter product used in what will be the largest ultraviolet disinfection waterworks facility in the world.
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