The King County Solid Waste Division is building a new transfer station at Bow Lake in Tukwila, has completed unique updates at the Houghton station in Kirkland and plans are under development for a new station in Factoria in Bellevue.
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King County, WA: Updating Waste Management Infrastructure
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012Guest on The Infra Blog: Scott Huler, Author, “On the Grid”
Monday, December 12th, 2011Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city’s eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from [...]
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Monday, October 31st, 2011November Public Forums at the Boston Public Library Boston Room, 700 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116 November 1, 15, 29, 2011, 4:00 – 5:30 PM The Massachusetts Infrastructure Investment Coalition (MIIC) is identifying the long-term needs for infrastructure investments to support economic development and improve the quality of life for the citizens of Massachusetts. The [...]
View this complete post...Interactive Map: New York State Sewers in Disrepair
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011Costly repair bills for state sewers To see the highest EPA-estimated repair costs in your area use the form to search. View full map (LoHud.com): NYS Sewers in Disrepair
View this complete post...Guest on The Infra Blog: Richard G. Luthy, Director of Engineering, Research Center for Re-Inventing Water Infrastructure
Monday, August 29th, 2011Richard Luthy is the Director of Engineering for the Research Center for Re-Inventing America’s Water Infrastructure. He is also the Silas H. Palmer Professor and former Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. His area of teaching and research is [...]
View this complete post...IN HARM’S WAY: Lack Of Federal Coal Ash Regulations Endangers Americans And Their Environment
Monday, August 30th, 2010ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT
An investigation led by expert hydrogeologists has identified 39 more coal combustion waste (CCW) disposal sites in 21 states that have contaminated groundwater or surface water with toxic metals and other pollutants. Their analysis is based on monitoring data and other information available in state agency files and builds on a report released in February of 2010, which documented similar damage at 31 coal combustion waste dumpsites in 14 states. When added to the 67 damage cases that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has already acknowledged, the total number of sites polluted by coal ash or scrubber sludge comes to at least 137 in 34 states. This total represents nearly a three-fold increase in the number of damage cases identified in EPA’s 2000 Regulatory Determination on the Wastes from the Combustion of Fossil Fuels.
Just Released: Infra report from Urban Land Institute
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Infrastructure 2010: Investment Imperative, the latest annual infrastructure report by Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young, focuses on water infra and urges decision-makers to view infrastructure as a long-term investment.
View this complete post...Landfill Action
Thursday, January 21st, 2010The ASCE Report Card: A Final Thought at the Close of 2009
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009In 2005, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released its Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. The cumulative grade of D was the engineers’ independent, learned assessment of the nation’s infrastructure. At the start of this year, the engineers released the 2009 Report Card, and again, a grade of D was assigned.
Is this progress? Will 2010 present new opportunities that may be seized upon?
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