Entries Tagged Washington D.C.

Also in this week's water and wastewater news, DC Water plans to launch a month-long Lidar drone survey of the Potomac Interceptor

Also in this week's water and wastewater news, a 20-year-old urban explorer from Nebraska suffers a fatal head injury in a local sewer system

Also in this week's water and wastewater news, a video of a sinkhole swallowing two vehicles at an Omaha, Nebraska, intersection has garnered over 20 million views on social media

Also in this week's water and wastewater news, Texas' Lake Corpus Christi is teetering on the brink of a historic low, with the city manager warning that the reservoir is expected to drop below 10% capacity for the first time

Also in this week's water and wastewater news, a two-alarm fire and explosion erupt at a wastewater treatment facility in Wilmington, Delaware

DC Water officials now estimate that full repairs could take more than nine months

Also in this week's water and wastewater news, President Donald Trump's administration has approved plans to construct the Sites Reservoir, a massive new off-stream lake situated north of Sacramento, California

Fairfax County project wins a sustainability award in the design stage for innovative methods used in switch from hypochlorite to UV disinfection.

Also in this week's water and wastewater news, Microsoft plans to replenish more water than it consumes by the year 2030

Two completed segments of the tunnel have diverted more than 2 billion gallons of stormwater to a treatment plant and have prevented more than 100 tons of trash from entering area rivers

In this week's water and wastewater news, the U.S. EPA backpedals after disallowing some reporters to attend its National Leadership Summit on PFAS in drinking water; and Michigan gets closer to enacting the strictest lead-level regulations in the nation

In this week's water and wastewater news, the FBI is investigating the wastewater treatment division of Terre Haute, Indiana; and the 'flushable' wipes industry is lobbying Congress to reverse a law in D.C.