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IPWEA published the International Infrastructure Management Manual 5th (2015) Edition in October 2015. The manual is available to international customers from IPWEA. If you are in New Zealand, the manual is available from NAMS. The information on the IPWEA website about the IIMM 5th …
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After a very busy year-end work-wise to 2015, a long vacation, we are back to blogging for 2016 here at Inframanage.com. There is a lot happening in infrastructure management in 2016, and we intend to do our best to keep you informed about this and apply infrastructure management perspectives to …
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It was Christmas Eve here in New Zealand when I wrote this post. Christmas coincides with our summer vacation in the Southern Hemisphere. I would like to wish all the readers of this blog a very Happy Christmas, wherever you are in the world. Thank you for your readership, comments and …
On Monday the 5th of October, South Carolina was hit with a deluge that occurs on average once per millennia, receiving six months of rain in two days. Columbia, SC with its many waterways was a prime target for flooding and is one of the worst affected areas. To make things more complicated, …
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On Monday the 14th of September 2015, Hildale, Utah was left in a state of shock and horror as a flash flood swept through and left two small communities in disbelief. The flood has claimed the lives of 16 people (mostly women and children) from these small communities and has been titled "one …
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Puerto Rico is facing one of the worst droughts in its history. On the eastern side of the island, the government has been forced to start extreme water rationing - something that hasn't happened in 20 years. Residents are caught up in a rationing cycle that leaves them without water for 24 hours …
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What seems a good thing - water levels at the highest capacity they've been in years - is actually not so great for Colorado Springs Utilities. The one drawback of so much rain is that customers use less water, which means the utility loses revenue. Fifty percent of the money made by the water …
The ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan is not new to the team at Inframanage.com - read our earlier posts on the Flint Michigan Water Crisis. It has now reached the point where Flint residents in July 2015 staged a scheduled, one-week demonstration under the title: "CLEAN AFFORDABLE WATER …
In late July 2015, the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration announced that they will be awarding a 1.5 million dollar grant to the Village of Salado, Texas to help upgrade water and sewer systems. The Government is doing this as part of its continued commitment to invest …
Williston, North Dakota has a growing population affecting its sewage lagoon system capacity to handle the excess wastewater. There are major concerns that this issue will have a negative effect on the backwaters of the Missouri River and the headwaters of Lake Sakakawea. Most of the …
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EnviroMission Ltd., an Australian energy company, and its U.S. Subsidiary has signed a project development deal with the CAWCD (Central Arizona Water Conservation District) that allows it to develop a transmission project. This could increase the reliability of the Central Arizona Project water …
There has been a lull in blog posts for the past 5 weeks. Ross was engaged in a very interesting infrastructure asset management project in the Pacific Islands that took him out of New Zealand for a month. Despite intentions to keep blogging through this period, that didn't …
