A project that has been years in the making, and is considered the biggest project in the history of the area, is soon to officially start in Sacramento, California. The "Echo" project is to begin in May, but some preliminary work has already started. KCRA reports: "With an estimated price …
Infrastructure Management Impact of Privatizing Water Utility Systems
After a January meeting, the council of Columbia, SC is officially open to selling or leasing the city's water and sewage systems to a private, for-profit company. Many companies have expressed their interest in such a venture, though it has had next to no publicity. The systems generate …
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California Improves Infrastructure Asset Management to Handle Drought
The State of California is about to invest a very large amount in its water infrastructure assets. Drought is a recurring problem in the region and the State is looking ahead to manage Stormwater more effectively in years to come. The funds will go towards new reservoirs, underground storage, and …
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West Virginia Water Utilities May Get Deregulated
Sara Jerome of Water Online wrote a thought-provoking article on how the political climate in West Virginia is shifting and may result in the deregulation of many public water utilities. From the point of view of the employees of the utilities, this is a positive outlook. "Tim Rock, …
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Infrastructure Asset Management Views on Detroit’s $1.7B Infra Funding
The City of Detroit is emerging from its Chapter 9 bankruptcy, and a recent Economist Magazine article notes the major details of the bankruptcy settlement: 7 billion debt removed, 11 billion remainsRetiree pensions and health care benefits reducedDetroit Institute of Arts savedInfrastructure and …
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Levels of Service Discussion – St Petersburg, Russia Wastewater System
I came across this article "Activists Discover Evidence of St. Petersburg's River of Poop", which relayed the recent publicity of environmental activists in St Petersburg, Russia. In summary, the activists claimed to have flushed GPS tracers down a toilet in a suburban bathroom in St Petersburg …
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Dancing Traffic Light, Using Non-Asset Solution to Fix a Real Problem
I came across this short video the other day and thought I might share it, as it illustrates some 'out of the box' thinking that can help us as we consider infrastructure asset management. Traditionally, when a problem is presented to be solved in an infrastructure field, we will engineer a …
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Infrastructure Management Insights from Detroit’s Bankruptcy
In November 2013 this blog posted on Detroit's bankruptcy and lessons infrastructure managers could learn from this. A recent Fortune Magazine article looks at the progress that Detroit has made a year after the bankruptcy. The Fortune article is worth the read, and I would …
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Heather Himmelberger, Infrastructure Asset Management Blog Contributor
Inframanage.com are very happy to introduce Heather Himmelberger, who has joined as Contributor. Heather is well known throughout the USA in her role as Director, Southwest Environmental Finance Center where she had been working with utilities, providing asset management training across the …
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Infrastructure Asset Management Thoughts – Mower Gang Helps Clean Up Detroit
You might have read the post on Detroit bankruptcy and some of the possible implications for infrastructure asset management in my previous blog post. In the Ingenium 2013 Conference Paper Series on the future of infrastructure management, I noted that in a constrained fiscal environment, …
Infrastructure Management – Was the Philippines’ 5% of GDP for Infra in 2014 Enough?
A news article in The Philippine Star 23 July 2013 edition noted that the Philippines Government plans to increase infrastructure expenditure to 5% of GDP before President Aquino steps down in 2016, lifting expenditure off a relatively low percentage of GDP base. As featured in our blog …
Infrastructure Management Innovation – Ricksaaf in Karachi, Pakistan
If you were discussing Infrastructure Management Innovation then Karachi, Pakistan is probably not the first place that would spring to mind. The international news cycle on Pakistan is well established, and unrelentingly negative. As always there is another side to the story. It seems …
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