BOSTON, MA, Aug. 25, 2010 -- Under the terms of a Consent Decree lodged in federal court, the City of Revere, Mass. will significantly reduce illegal discharges of raw sewage overflows into the environment from its wastewater collection system and separate storm sewer system...

HARRISBURG, PA, Aug. 20, 2010 -- The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is providing municipal drainage system operators a nine-month extension of their existing general permit to better coordinate implementation of new permitting requirements...

PORTLAND, OR, Aug. 19, 2010 -- For all industrial sites in the states of California and Washington, October 1st signifies the beginning of the rainy season and the kickoff for state mandated stormwater sampling...

CULTEC Inc. has released its new Bed Design Aides that show how to draw Contactor® and Recharger® storm-water management systems in CAD for the customers who wish to do it manually. The Bed Design Aides are available for the following models: Contactor 100 and Recharger 150, 280, 330XL and V8. They offer engineers a visual starting point to help lay out a typical underground chamber system. They detail installed chamber lengths, typical center-to-center spacing and a list of materials.

Improving the level of flood protection for San Joaquin County communities has taken another step forward with participation by future community areas in the flood planning process. The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is currently scoping a levee improvement feasibility study for the lower San Joaquin River. Completion of the study requires funding participation by local flood control agencies. In response to the USACE’s local funding requirement, twelve urban San Joaquin County flood control districts entered into an agreement to cooperatively fund the local share. In addition to the urban districts, Reclamation District 2062, a district that currently has less than 10,000 residences but is considered urbanizing, recently joined the ranks of participating agencies in the local cost sharing agreement. By including both urban and urbanizing areas in the process, the communities along the lower San Joaquin River have taken another step beyond other Central Valley areas in bettering the level of flood protection they provide their citizens.

When Reinhart, the third largest food service distributor in the United States, received a contract with a national restaurant chain, the company needed additional storage space at its Reinhart FoodService’s NATCO facility (New Bedford, MA) by the beginning of January 2010. It was decided that a 27,600-square-foot addition to Reinhart’s frozen and non-frozen foods warehouse should be built.