California Wastewater Project Gets Record $1.6B EPA Loan The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $1.6 billion in Clean Water Act State Revolving Funds (SRF) - the largest block of financing it has ever issued - for a $2-billion upgrade of the Sacramento regional wastewater treatment plant in Elk Grove, Calif., which broke ground on May 28.Construction, set to take eight years, will bring the 181- million-gallon-per-day plant to advanced treatment. It has been one of the largest sources of ammonia and nitrate pollution in the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta estuary, says EPA.Louisiana Legislators Approve $884M for Gulf Coast
Related Links: Industry Awaits Anticipated Award of P3 Contract for LaGuardia Terminal Public-Private Partnerships Will Be Key in Bridge, Airport Projects: Port Authority Chief The aging and outmoded Central Terminal Building at New York City's LaGuardia Airport moved a step closer to handling its final flights with the selection of LaGuardia Gateway Partners (LGP) as the preferred bidder for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey's $3.6-billion terminal replacement project.The Queens, N.Y.-based LGP team is made up of Skanska USA Building Inc.; Skanska USA Civil Northeast Inc.; Walsh Construction; Parsons Brinckerhoff; Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum PC; and Vantage
Related Links: Low and Slow Across America's Infrastructure Crossing the Mississippi River into Missouri was significant for Mrs. Martin and her crew.Click on the image to begin the slide show.
Bridge inspections reached a huge milestone in April, when the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) began collecting “element-level” bridge condition data from state departments of transportation.In an element-level bridge inspection — mandated by the latest highway bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) — “each square foot of the bridge deck, and its other elements, such as the joint seals, receive a separate rating,” according to a statement from the FHWA. “Dividing bridge components into smaller, more manageable elements will ensure engineers understand the extent of bridge deterioration, which will help them make more informed decisions about repair,
Photo Courtesy of New Zealand Transport Agency Auckland interchange finish wont be delayed by April work shutdown, officials say. Photo Courtesy of New Zealand Transport Agency Project completion, including tunnelling, remains on track for early 2017 Work has resumed on a key element of the billion-dollar Waterview Connection highway project in Auckland, following delivery of substandard concrete in April that stopped construction, says the New Zealand Transport Agency. The error required repairs on a large interchange, but managers of New Zealand’s largest infrastructure project say it won’t affect overall job schedule.A production fault at an Auckland batch plant operated by
Enlarge The Low and Slow Tour, as of June 14. Click the image to enlarge. Related Links: Low and Slow Across America's Infrastructure (scroll down for the updated Low and Slow itinerary)While working away at my desk at ENR’s home office in New York City, in spirit I have been touring the nation’s infrastructure with transportation editor Aileen Cho and author Dan McNichol, on special assignment for the cross-country expedition.Happily, I did get to sit in the driver's seat when Mrs. Martin visited Penn Station during the pretour. And I’ve had lots of opportunity to stay involved, working with the
Related Links: Low & Slow Across America's Infrastructure Moving west across the country, Aileen and Dan visit the the CityArchRiver 2015 project in St. Louis.Click the image to begin the slide show.
Related Links: ENR's Low & Slow Across America's Infrastructure Tour How One Old Car Became a Metaphor for America's Infrastructure Staff members of ENR turned out on May 15 to say bon voyage to the stars of our "Low & Slow Across America's Infrastructure" tour and pose for a group photo in front of New York City's Pennsylvania Station.ENR Transportation Editor Aileen Cho and author Dan McNichol, on special assignment to ENR, are traveling coast to coast, chronicling public officials' efforts to finance, maintain and rebuild U.S. infrastructure for the future. The two reporters are driving in McNichol's 1949 Hudson
Related Links: ENR's Low & Slow Across America's Infrastructure Tour How One Old Car Became a Metaphor for America's Infrastructure Darrell Carlisle approached the 1949 Hudson sedan, nicknamed Mrs. Martin and serving as a low-slung symbol of America's aging infrastructure. Standing at a gas station off Interstate 64 between Louisville, Ky., and St. Louis, the Jefferson, Ind., resident recalled a "60 Minutes" television episode on infrastructure and thought of a Pittsburgh bridge, which had a special platform built to catch spalling concrete."Every time I go across a bridge, I think about that," Carlisle said. "How well was this built, and
Related Links: Low & Slow Across America's Infrastructure Mrs. Martin is America’s broken infrastructure. A third of the way to the West Coast Aileen and I parked under the great St. Louis Arch for the Memorial Day weekend.Mrs. Martin, after passing a younger, bright-red Tesla parked in front of our hotel which shuttles guests around downtown St. Louis, retired to her room on the 10th floor of a convention center parking garage. Reflecting on how the Low & Slow tour is method acting the nation’s broken infrastructure I’ve logged notes.Click to begin the slide show
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