New HammerHead R600 Completes Range of ROUGHNECK™ Rock Drilling Systems
LAKE MILLS, Wisc. –HammerHead Trenchless Equipment has introduced the HammerHead ROUGHNECK™ R600, the largest of its pneumatic percussion drilling systems for use in horizontal directional drilling applications. Designed for drilling solid rock with bit diameters of...
University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Win Top Prizes in EPA’s Campus RainWorks Challenge
CHICAGO (April 22, 2015) -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Administrator Susan Hedman today awarded the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign first and second prizes in the EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge at...
GeoEngineers Springfield: Jon Robison Promoted to Principal
Jon Robison, PE, was recently promoted to Principal Geotechnical Engineer at GeoEngineers’ Springfield, Missouri location. Jon Robison has been providing geotechnical, geohazard analysis, construction and geophysical project management and engineering services since...
TT Technologies Offers Effective Trenchless Gas Line Splitting Methods
AURORA, Ill.—TT Technologies, Aurora, Ill., offers a wide range of plastic pipe splitting heads developed by working directly with gas utilities to create optimum splitting head configurations. The designs are capable of splitting and replacing plastic gas service...
National Contaminant Occurrence Database (NCOD)
EPA developed the NCOD to satisfy the statutory requirements set by Congress in the 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) to maintain a national drinking water contaminant occurrence database using samples data for both regulated and unregulated...
Vac-Tron and Safe Digging Month
Vac-Tron first took shape in October of 1994 when Don Buckner founded American Manufacturing and Machine, Inc., out of his garage with his son, Donnie Jr. Forged from their desire to “make something better” — the “virtual manufacturing” company relied on...
National Stormwater Calculator
EPA’s National Stormwater Calculator (SWC) is a desktop application that estimates the annual amount of rainwater and frequency of runoff from a specific site anywhere in the United States (including Puerto Rico). Estimates are based on local soil conditions, land...
Toro Underground Business Expands in Australia
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (March 30, 2015) – Toro Australia entered the horizontal directional drilling (HDD) market in early 2014 with a strong line of powerful machines. Toro’s expansion into HDD follows the purchase in 2012 of Astec Underground, Inc., a highly regarded...
Woodard & Curran Wins EBJ Award for Business Achievement
San Diego, Calif. — Woodard & Curran has won an EBJ award for Business Achievement in the Large Firm category. The award was given by the Environmental Business Journal® (EBJ), a business research publication for the environmental industry that has honored 50...
Green Infrastructure Leader Joins Burns & McDonnell
KANSAS CITY, MO--(Marketwired - Apr 3, 2015) - Andy Sauer, P.E., ENV SP, has joined Burns & McDonnell as the Green Infrastructure and Stormwater Leader in the Water division. Sauer is a recognized industry expert in the integration of green infrastructure design...