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Jan 23, 2012
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City of South Bend agrees to improve sewer system to address Clean Water Act violations
The United States Attorney’s Office and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the City of South Bend, Indiana has agreed to make an estimated $509.5 million worth of improvements to its combined sewer system to significantly reduce overflows of raw sewage to the St. Joseph River, which is a tributary of Lake Michigan. One well-known stretch of the St. Joseph River in South Bend, the East Race, is the site of an annual international kayaking competition and also is where Olympic kayakers and rescue workers periodically train.
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Jan 20, 2012
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TransCanada Will Re-Apply for a Keystone XL Permit
TransCanada Corporation (TransCanada) announced it has received the U.S. Department of State's decision that the Presidential Permit for Keystone XL has been denied.
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Jan 19, 2012
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IDB approves $200 million credit line for Abengoa of Spain
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a revolving credit of $200 million for the Spanish company Abengoa S.A. to finance the development of power transmission and generation projects, especially from renewable sources, as well as water, sanitation, and health concessions in Latin America.
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Jan 18, 2012
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Dalrod Utilises Brawoliner to Complete a Challenging Renovation Project Near Ely Cathedral
DALROD UK Ltd, with offices in both Peterborough (Head Office) and St Ives (Cambridgeshire) and depots across East Anglia, the Midlands and the North East of England, has once again proved itself as a leader in the drainage maintenance and repair field by successfully completing a technically challenging job, with the minimum of disruption, close to historic Ely Cathedral, using trenchless lining techniques.
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Jan 18, 2012
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ADB $200 Million Loan to Help PRC's Guangxi Improve Cities, Unlock Potential
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending a $200 million loan for infrastructure upgrades to improve living conditions and open up new economic opportunities in three strategically vital seaport cities in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
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Jan 17, 2012
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Sewer and Pipeline Rehabilitation in the US Industry Market Research Report Now Available from IBISWorld
The Sewer and Pipeline Rehabilitation industry in the US has experienced declining revenue over the past five years. Revenue is expected to decrease an average of 1.2% annually to $5.1 billion in the five years to 2012. Following the recession, constrained local and state budgets and a sharp drop in residential construction underpinned the decrease as fewer projects were completed. The next five years are set to be better for the industry. Despite constrained local and state government budgets and continued growth constraints in the residential housing market, these factors are set to recover in the latter half of the five years to 2017, benefiting industry growth.
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Jan 16, 2012
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American Water Expands Water & Sewer Line Protection Programs in Four States
American Water Works Company, Inc., the largest publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company, announced the expansion of its Water and Sewer Line Protection Programs to homeowners in Georgia, Kansas, North Carolina and Texas communities. Offered through American Water Resources, Inc. and American Water Resources of Texas, subsidiaries of American Water, the Water Line Protection and Sewer Line Protection Programs provide homeowners with comprehensive protection for water line and sewer line repairs that are not covered by homeowners' insurance or their water or sewer service provider.
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Jan 13, 2012
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Sealing the world’s longest immersed tunnel
In 2009, construction began on a project to link Hong Kong with Macau and the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai. The link will be one of the region’s most technically complex engineering projects ever. It includes a 30-kilometer dual three-lane carriageway with a 23-kilometer bridge, an almost 7-kilometer tunnel and two artificial islands. The tunnel will be the world’s longest deepwater immersed tunnel for road traffic.
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Jan 12, 2012
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SEKISUI Chemical Co., Ltd acquires major shareholding in Austrian pipe rehabilitation specialist Rabmer: Expansion into Central and Eastern Europe
Rabmer Pipe Rehabilitation is with immediate effect a subsidiary of the SEKISUI Chemical Co., Ltd. Upon signing the contract in December 2011, the Japanese industrial concern, of which the SEKISUI SPR Europe Group is a member, received a 75% shareholding which enables it to expand its competence in the rehabilitation of underground infrastructure systems into Central and Eastern Europe.
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Jan 11, 2012
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ACCIONA seals water management deal with Caceres City Council (Spain)
The end-to-end domestic drinking water supply, sewage and wastewater treatment services are worth nearly 300 million euros. ACCIONA Agua is to run the water services for the city of Caceres (Spain) for the next 24 years. Thanks to a City Council contract worth almost 300 million euros, the company will manage the municipal domestic water supply, sewage system and wastewater treatment.
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Jan 10, 2012
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New Vice President Group Communications at Sandvik AB
Jan Lissåker has been appointed Executive Vice President Group Communications and member of Group Executive Management at Sandvik AB.
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Jan 10, 2012
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Uruguay to improve Montevideo drainage infrastructure with IDB support
Loan for $20.5 million will directly benefit 4,500 people in three critical neighborhoods and in adjacent areas affected by floods.
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Jan 09, 2012
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Pennsylvania’s Lehigh County Authority Adopts InfoWorks CS to Manage its Wastewater Infrastructure
Innovyze announced that the Lehigh County Authority (LCA), Pennsylvania, has selected InfoWorks CS for managing its wastewater facilities.
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Jan 06, 2012
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No fear of large liner lengths: In Switzerland, ISS Notter Kanalservice installed a 257-meter long DN 600 liner in one day
In the early summer of 2011, a four-kilometre segment of the sewer system of the municipality Bottmingen was rehabilitated. The entire rehabilitation project with which the company ISS Notter Kanalservice AG was commissioned involved the camera inspection of the old pipes, the use of robots and the trenchless rehabilitation of a 700-meter long sewer pipe using GRP pipe liners cured with UV light. A segment of 257 meters and a diameter of DN 600 was completed within one working day.
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Jan 05, 2012
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EBRD invests €8.8 million in water infrastructure in Braila, Romania
The EBRD is continuing its work to help improve water infrastructure in Romanian cities, with a new loan to improve water services in the county of Braila. The Bank is providing a €8.8 million loan which, alongside EU Cohesion Funds of €74 million and funding from the local and state budgets, will finance the €95.7 million regional water investment programme of the SC Compania de Utilitati Publice Dunarea SA Braila.
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Jan 04, 2012
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Utility Tunnelling – Longer, Deeper, More Curvaceous
Utility Tunnelling, comprising both pipe jacking and microtunnelling, develops into the prevailing construction method at global level for drains and sewers in metropolises. This popularity growth is accompanied by the need for ever-more demanding projects. To put it simply, utility tunnelling projects take on increasing depths and lengths.
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Jan 04, 2012
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Heckmann Corporation Begins Fresh Water Delivery by Pipeline in the Haynesville Shale Area
Heckmann Corporation announced that it has begun transporting water through its fresh water pipeline in the Haynesville Shale area. The fresh water, repurposed PVC pipeline will be 40 miles long when fully commissioned, representing the largest fresh water pipeline system in the Haynesville Shale area. Heckmann expects the fresh water pipeline to be fully operational in 2012 with capacity to move up to 60,000 barrels per day. The initial orders for water from the fresh water pipeline are projected to result in the delivery of approximately 16,000 barrels per day beginning in mid-December of 2011.
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Jan 03, 2012
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Rotork Provides Asset Management for Actuated Valves
The key benefit of effective asset management for the actuated valve end user is an economic one. The implementation of preventative maintenance as the main activity in the asset management programme quickly translates into cost savings for the plant operator. This and many other benefits are facilitated and enhanced by the increased functionality inherent in modern intelligent electric valve actuation technologies.
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Jan 02, 2012
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World Bank to help Kerala village communities improve water supply and sanitation services to 1.84 million people
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$155.3 million credit to the southern Indian state of Kerala to help village communities develop and run water supply and sanitation services that will improve the quality of life for some 1.84 million people.
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Dec 30, 2011
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FT Pipeline Systems Achieves Accreditation Hat-trick
FT Pipeline Systems, one of the leading providers of steel pipes and pipe accessories to the UK construction industry, has revealed that it recently achieved re-certification to all three industry standards; ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.
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Dec 29, 2011
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BorSafe™ HE3490-LS delivers longevity to Estonian power plant pipes
Durability and efficiency were the determining factors behind the choice of PE100 BorSafe™ HE3490-LS from Borealis, a leading provider of chemical and innovative plastics solutions, for renovation of a crucial cooling water circulation system at the world’s two biggest oil shale-fired thermal power plants.
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Dec 28, 2011
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GRUNDORAM hammer assisted Horizontal Directional Drilling in Saudi Arabia
Gulf British Drilling (GBD), based in Saudi Arabia, was contracted by Bin Quraya Company for a 68 km pipeline project of 48 inch steel pipe along the Aramco Manifa to Saphaniyah pipeline including eight road crossings that required directional drilling.
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Dec 27, 2011
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Pipe rehabilitation company Jensen invests in the world's most powerful UV curing system for liners
With the investment in a new UV curing system for liners, Jensen, a company from Bordesholm, Germany, specialising in pipe rehabilitation using UV light as the curing medium, has expanded its capacity in the area of sewer pipe rehabilitation. The company founded by Stefan Jensen in 2010 has now invested in a UV curing system from RELINEEUROPE that enables the curing of lines with dimensions ranging between DN 150 and DN 1200 over a length of up to 300 metres in a single run.
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Dec 23, 2011
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IDB approves additional funding for sanitation works in Montevideo to benefit 40,000 people
Project strengthens a program to improve environmental conditions in bay and beaches west of the city, and protect restored beaches to the east.
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Dec 22, 2011
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Clean water for 5m people around Durban assured with EIB support
The European Investment Bank will provide EUR 35 million (R385 million) long-term funding to Umgeni Water for new pipelines and upgrading of existing water supply, water treatment works, pumping and service reservoirs that will contribute to the improved supply of bulk potable water in the Umgeni Water operational area. The infrastructure will enable Umgeni Water to continue to provide clean water to an estimated 5 million people in Durban and surrounding areas, and provide capacity to municipalities to enable new water connections to unserved areas.
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