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This root ball pulled from a South Bend sewer was named The Blob, because it appeared to be trying to eat a worker’s foot.
Richard Radcliff loves his numbers.
“As a civil engineer, I’m all about measurement,” says Radcliff, combined sewer overflow operations manager for the South Bend (Indiana) Wastewater Department.
The numbers generated by a network of sensors (CSONet, hosted by Xylem Vue) on...