Articles Tagged with ''water/environment''

The $92-million, eight-year project used cutting-edge wastewater treatment technology and facilities within a constrained footprint, all while maintaining plant operations within strict discharge quality standards throughout construction. 

Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant’s existing headworks to increase influent capacity to 752 million gallons per day from 469 mgd.

Faced with economic and environmental uncertainties, the Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) was challenged to adapt its 249 million gallons per day wastewater-treatment network to address and maintain reliable service to more than 1.7 million residents across southeast Virginia while safeguarding the region’s diminishing water supply and ecologically sensitive Chesapeake Bay.

Designed to substantially reduce combined sewer overflows to the waterways of the nation’s capital, the $240-million, 12,300-ft-long hydraulic tunnel traverses a route that includes varying subsurface conditions, fragile utility networks and above-ground environments ranging from rivers and parks to densely populated urban neighborhoods.

The Waller Creek Tunnel Inlet Facility was designed to protect downtown Austin from flash flooding.

The Munger brothers, cotton gin manufacturers, established Munger Place in 1905 as an upscale community just south of Dallas.

The Basin Creek water treatment plant in Butte, Mont., is the first in the country to install a ceramic membrane filtration system.