Tag: wastewater treatment
Miami-Dade County Receives $99.7 Million Water Infrastructure Loan
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced a $99.7 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan to Miami-Dade County, Fla., to finance advanced wastewater infrastructure upgrades.
EPA Provides WIFIA Loan to Modernize Baltimore’s Wastewater Infrastructure
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced a $202 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan to the City of Baltimore, Md., to help the city make system-wide upgrades to its aging wastewater infrastructure at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Australian researchers recycle biosolids to make sustainable bricks
A team at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, has demonstrated that fired-clay bricks incorporating biosolids could be a sustainable solution for both the wastewater treatment and brickmaking industries.
Researchers study benefits in co-treating acid mine drainage and shale gas wastewater
Pennsylvania’s energy history is rich with the quantities of fossil fuels that it has produced, but is also rife with the environmental legacies of coal mining and, more recently, hydrofracturing.
Brown and Caldwell to design Palo Alto wastewater treatment upgrades
The City of Palo Alto, Calif., selected Brown and Caldwell to provide design services for secondary treatment upgrades at the city’s Regional Water Quality Control Plant.
EPA provides $699 million for San Francisco wastewater infrastructure upgrades
In late July, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a $699 million loan to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to help finance its innovative Southeast Treatment Plant Biosolids Digester Facilities Project.
New water treatment plant tests Stanford technology for cleaning wastewater while creating energy
Stanford, Calif. — Stanford environmental engineers Craig Criddle and Bill Mitch are putting anaerobic microorganisms to work in the largest demonstration of a more...
MWH Constructors selected as CM/GC for Logan, Utah WWTP
The City of Logan, Utah selected MWH Constructors to serve as the Construction Manager/General Contractor (CM/GC) for the new $107 million Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTP) project.
Archer Western and Brown and Caldwell to expand Fulton County’s Big Creek Water Reclamation...
Archer Western Construction, LLC and joint venture partner Brown and Caldwell were awarded the Progressive Design-Build project at Fulton County’s Big Creek Water Reclamation Facility in Roswell, Ga. The Progressive Design-Build project will upgrade and expand the facility from 24 to 38 million gallons per day.
