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The City of Twin Falls, Idaho discharges treated wastewater into the Snake River which has a TMDL. In lieu of constructing expensive treatment plant options, wetlands were developed using irrigation return. Millions of dollars of were saved and hundreds of tons of sediment loads will be removed annually.
North American has an estimated 100,000 miles of levees. Many of these levees were originally used to protect farmland, and are now protecting developed communities. The reliability of many of these levees is unknown and public safety could be at risk from these aging structures. If a community or levee owner wants the area behind a levee to be shown as reducing risk from the one-percent-annual-chance flood, they must first complete the process for having the levee certified by FEMA.
FHWA Proven Safety Countermeasures for Intersections – Retro-reflective Borders on Back-plates and Corridor Access Management.
Six public works agencies in Sarpy County, Nebraska use a Citizen Service Request Form to assist in fast, accurate, and efficient reporting of infrastructure issues. Discover how this web-based tool provides better service and communication to residents within the 250 square mile area.
Discover how to maintain core services and make better use of resources in the face of declining revenues. Examine strategies for organizational realignment, equipment and process changes, management system implementation, systematic prioritization, and benchmarks for process improvement
King County, Washington selected green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) as the preferred alternative for controlling combined sewer overflows (CSOs). Find out how they met the challenges of (1) working in a complex residential community; (2) maintenance of these GSI facilities; (3) resilience using adaptive management
Sponsored by APWA’s Transportation Committee Traffic control is a challenge no matter which side of the border we sit on. The MUTCD is used throughout the United States. Canada uses both the MUTCD and the OTM. Attend this panel discussion of these traffic control guidance manuals and the importance and consistency and communication.
Discover how abandoned and active pipe lines are still valuable assets that can be repurposed to serve other needs. Learn when it is and is not advisable to co-locate conduit in pipeline trenches and how reusing these assets allows you to avoid new excavations and the attendant surface restoration
Sponsored by APWA’s Water Resources Management Committee Based on a true story! More than 10-years later the City of Bend, Oregon continues to deal with the ramifications of the prolonged engineering, legal, and political effects of the failure of a private water and sewer utility. Examine the lessons learned.
Learn how to streamline maintenance issue reporting and reduce costs, by using a crowdsourcing mobile app. Reports are automatically generated for the work order management software which include GIS location information.