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A lead service line is removed in Ashland, Wisconsin. The green circle at the bottom of the trench is the curb stop which dictates where the private portion of the water line begins. Image: Phil Wesner
By Taylor Haelterman
A Wisconsin lead service line replacement program got a $64 million funding boost this year from state and federal sources.
But it will only replace 5 to 10 percent of the state’s more than 200,000 privately owned water service lines, state officials said.
“Some more money needs to get into this effort,” said Becky Scott, the team leader for Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ lead service line replacement program.
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The Cape Fear Public Utility Authority has decided to take nearly $2 million awarded in a settlement from a class action lawsuit and pay down debt on a loan from the state.
Co-Digesting Food Waste With Wastewater Solids To Produce Energy
By Rashi Gupta
Inspired in part by California’s Senate Bill 1383, which was enacted to reduce organic waste and methane emissions, co-digestion is fulfilling those goals while converting wastewater treatment plants into water resource recovery facilities.
With each passing year, the effects of climate change become harder to ignore. The U.S. West Coast has borne the brunt of many such effects: Scientists continue to connect drier, windier, and warmer climates to the ever-increasing number of wildfires observed, especially in California. In the past year alone, the state experienced over 9,200 wildfire events that ravaged close to 4.2 million acres of land 26 times the total acreage burned in 2019 prompting Governor Gavin Newsom to describe the devastation as a “climate damn emergency.”