Ring-O-Matic Appoints Brian Metcalf CEO
May 8, 2015 – PELLA, Iowa– Ring-O-Matic Inc., an Iowa based manufacturer of vacuum excavators, is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Metcalf as CEO. For the past eight years Metcalf has been president of HammerHead Trenchless Equipment of Lake Mills,...
CH2M Announces First Global Rebrand in Two Decades; Aligns Strategy and Focus with Clients’ Needs
CH2M HILL— a global engineering firm specializing in government, industrial, infrastructure and energy projects —announced today that it has adopted a refreshed brand and logo designed to better reflect its clients’ needs and its own ambitions for growth. The company...
EPA and U.S. Steel Provide $3.5 Million for Spirit Lake Cleanup Plan
Release Date: 05/11/2015 Contact Information: Peter Cassell, cassell.peter@epa.gov, 312-886-6234 (CHICAGO) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that an additional $3.5 million has been made available for work in the Spirit Lake portion of the...
McLaughlin – Make This Technology Your ‘Core’ Potholing Method
When locating utilities under a street, there’s the hard way, and there’s the easy way. The hard way of potholing for a horizontal directional drilling job is to saw cut and then dig with an excavator. The easy way is known as core drilling. A crew uses a vacuum...
Pure Technologies Closes Acquisition of Wachs Water Services
<p>CALGARY, - Pure Technologies Ltd. announced that it has closed its previously announced acquisition of Wachs Valve and Hydrant Services, LLC ("Wachs Water"), a leading provider of flow control maintenance and support, leak detection, and related asset...
Marshall Municipal Utilities Uses Fusible PVC® Pipe on Over 40 Trenchless Crossings for New Raw Water Transmission Main
Cities all over the country are challenged with maintaining adequate water supplies to meet the demands of their customer base. Facing new water quality regulations that limited production from existing water wells, Marshall Municipal Utilities (MMU) in southwestern...
HammerHead’s PortaVision 3: Upgraded Lateral Camera System ‘Goes the Distance’
May 4, 2015 – LAKE MILLS, Wisc.– Whether inspecting pipe laterals for cleaning, repair or inspection, plumbing specialists now have a one-touch lateral camera system that supports a wide range of pipe sizes with a highly durable yet comparatively inexpensive...
25 Years Ago This Week…
NASTT turns 25 in 2015! What was happening 25 years ago? From May 2-4, the first talks between the government of South Africa and the African National Congress took place. On May 4, Latvia declared independence from the Soviet Union. ON May 5, Craig Perret aboard...
Water and Wastewater Systems Asset Management
In water and wastewater systems, an "asset" is a component of a facility with an independent physical and functional identity and age (e.g., pump, motor, sedimentation tank, main). The renewal and replacement of the assets that make up our nation's water...
Sanitary Sewer Overflow Analysis and Planning (SSOAP) Toolbox
Rainfall-derived infiltration and inflow (RDII) is the increased portion of water flow in a sanitary sewer system that occurs during and after a rainfall as a source of operating problems in sanitary sewer systems. RDII is the main cause of sanitary sewer overflows...