Infrastructure

Brown and Caldwell, the largest engineering consulting firm dedicated to the United States environmental sector, was recently recognized for their rehabilitation of the Orange County Sanitation District’s aging infrastructure. The firm upgraded two sewer force mains in Newport Beach, along a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway. The 60-year-old iron pipe …

Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD), which services part of the Inland Empire, has installed filtered water fill-up stations throughout their service area. According to EMWD, the move is designed to provide their customers with access to safe, clean drinking water. Customers are encouraged to take reusable water bottles to the …

By 2025, residents across California will be required to have water meters installed on their homes as a means of tracking water usage. While water meters are the norm in Southern California, residents in the Central Valley and Sacramento area are seeing them installed on homes for the first time. …

A partnership has been formed between the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County and Metropolitan District. The goal of the partnership is simple: to provide water-starved California with its own water supply. Instead of allowing wastewater to be dumped in the Pacific Ocean, MWD wants to build a treatment facility …

On Tuesday, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California board members approved the water agency’s agenda to purchase four islands in the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta. Their approval gave MWD’s general manager, Jeffrey Kightlinger, the go ahead to negotiate a deal with the islands’ sellers. Once the deal is finalized, MWD could …

On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission approved a request for California American Water (CAW) to acquire Dunnigan Water Works, a water utility agency in Yolo County. The acquisition will provide CAW’s Sacramento-based customers with 239 new service connections. According to a news release by CAW, the agency services nearly …