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The Pressure is On—Lead and Copper Rule Revisions

The City of Olathe is leading the way in Kansas for compliance under the revised Lead and Copper Rule. With over 37,000 service lines and no existing records, they created…

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West Michigan Water Career Program: A Novel Approach to Recruitment

In 2022, Grand Rapids Community College, partnering with Bay College and the City of Grand Rapids, received a $500K grant awarded by the US Environmental Protection Agency, specifically focusing on…

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Medical District Drive—How Partnering Delivers a Better Project

The Medical District Drive project improves multimodal access to Dallas’s Medical District by reconstructing the road between Southwestern Medical Avenue and Interstate Highway 35E. The Complete Street expansion entails six…

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Roadmap to Readiness: Prepare Your Organization BEFORE the Disruption

The local government workplace, and certainly public works agencies, are facing increasingly more and unique disruptors in these ever changing times. These disruptors can take the form of natural disasters,…

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The R.E.M. Murmur Trestle: Strategies that Unlocked a 20-Year Stalemate

In 1983, Georgia-based R.E.M. released their debut album featuring an image of an abandoned railroad trestle on the album’s back cover. Fifteen years later, the railroad began an effort to…

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What Gives You the Right?

Land acquisition for 65 miles of Transmission Main from Chicago to the Southwest Suburbs—The Alternative Water Source Program (AWSP) is being undertaken by the Grand Prairie Water Commission (GPWC) in…

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Micro-Trenching to Expand Our Broadband Network

Due to the drive to expand the nation’s 5G mobile network, California’s Legislature passed Senate Bill (SB) 378, the Broadband Acceleration Best Practices Act of 2021. The Act requires local…

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Second Chance Workforce Development

The City of Columbus Department of Public Service (DPS) began a partnership with Marysville Women’s Reformatory (MWR), the only women’s prison in the state, in July 2021 to offer restored…

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The Unhoused—This Can Be a Public Works Challenge

The unhoused, more commonly known as the homeless, are a nationwide challenge to both urban communities and small cities. The issue of the unhoused is frequently presented as a social/economic…

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Young Professional Development in Public Works Happy Hour Jam

The Young Professionals Committee will host an open discussion on ways in which professionals can identify talent, create meaningful succession planning, and develop a culture that bridges generational gaps for…

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