Economic development, beer, and wastewater pretreatment—what’s the connection? Beer tourism is on the rise in the Asheville area of North Carolina. Local economic development efforts welcome new brewing operations for...
With fewer resources available and rising demands for technology, training, risk management, and replacement of aged and obsolete infrastructure, city and town managers face increasingly difficult decisions about financing public...
Storms Farm is a 600-acre farm in North Carolina that houses more than 25,000 hogs and 400,000 chickens. In 2010, owner Billy Storms undertook a five-million-dollar endeavor with WithersRavenel to...
Over the past five years, a small team of engineers have volunteered with TransformAsia to assist Cambodians with their developmental and operational needs. One of the projects the team assisted with...
The Town of Sparta, NC, has faced challenges to making needed improvements to its water system, including raising rates, changing mindsets, and educating the public and Town council. To overcome...
For civil and environmental engineers in the water and wastewater industry, electrical design is sometimes an afterthought when designing water and wastewater conveyance and treatment systems. Lack of understanding of...
A very mature residential area in the unincorporated community of New Alexandria in Fairfax County, VA, had been experiencing long-standing and worsening tidally influenced flooding in its 35-acre drainage area. After...
When sewer pipes are designed, it is a standard design parameter to place them at the minimum depth necessary to protect the pipes, and it is typically assumed that the...
With the discovery of lead contamination in Flint, Michigan, and GenX and 1,4-Dioxane in North Carolina, chemical contamination of drinking water is increasingly a topic of public discussion and concern....
Ductile iron pipe corrosion typically occurs along the top of the pipe where oxygen is present, but CCTV imagery reveals that corrosion below the spring line can also be a...