Bucher Municipal: Soaring high to deliver your best street sweeping solution
Bottom line, you need the best street sweeper for your street sweeping program. Whether you are a small municipality, regional airport or contractor buying your first street sweeper or if you are a large city, airport or conglomerate buying your … More from our cover sponsor →
Rural communities keep the water flowing
How does a small city handle routine water system maintenance? City Engineer and Public Works Director for the city of Kimberly Brian Reed said his city is always working on something. “Most if not all small communities struggle with providing … Continue reading →
Tampa turns to solar to keep intersections live after power outages
Hurricanes in the southern states located along the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean are known to wreak havoc among cities, leaving devastation in their wake. Hurricanes will leave municipalities without power for days while they recover from the … Continue reading →
Silver City engages all demographics with AARP-assisted public space renovation
AARP says it wants to make communities stronger for all ages and demographics, and its Community Challenge grants are one way the organization is making a difference in smaller cities and towns. A recent project in Silver City, N.M., is … Continue reading →
North Dakota city reveals a creative side
Devils Lake, North Dakota, was formed because of a continental glacier that covered most of North America during the Pleistocene Epoch. According to Wikipedia, that part of history lasted until about 11,700 years ago and a basin was formed as … Continue reading →
Boulder uses Safe Routes to create safer paths
Lehigh Street in Boulder, Colo., is an important roadway for vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles as it connects to two elementary schools as well as residential areas. Therefore, when Lehigh Street became due for repaving the city and Boulder Valley School … Continue reading →
Taking clean air to new heights with biodiesel – Part 1
The Village of Arlington Heights, Ill., located about 40 minutes from Chicago, is one of the largest towns in the Windy City’s affluent northwest suburbs and the 13th largest municipality in Illinois. With approximately 75,000 residents, the village motto is … Continue reading →
Displaced left turn is right solution for Texas town
Pflugerville, Texas, has adopted an innovative new intersection design called the displaced left turn, or DLT, which allows vehicles to make unopposed left turns at an intersection by crossing traffic over to the other side of the road prior to … Continue reading →
The Municipal Top 10: Best cities for chocolate lovers
Romance fills the air during February. Sweethearts everywhere will exchange tokens of their affection on February 14, and chocolate is one of the most popular ways to profess one’s love. The website LawnLove.com set out last year to determine what … Continue reading →
Bridge rebuilt in days within the Cherokee Nation
When major flooding washed out the bridge and culverts in the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Okla., in May, the executive director of transportation and infrastructure for the Cherokee Nation, Michael Lynn, knew the department had to do something fast. Lynn … Continue reading →
Maintaining covered bridges for generations to come
Covered bridges are part of our early history as a country, though their actual history goes back many hundreds of years. A 13th century sketchbook of the French architect Villard de Honnecourt depicted a truss bridge, and an Italian treatise … Continue reading →
Clean streets are getting electrified
European municipalities have long embraced compact street sweepers to clean their streets, sidewalks, parking lots, and runways. Despite their compact size, these sweepers pack a punch, with European companies refining their designs with performance and operator comfort in mind. German … Continue reading →
How to smooth the road to electric work trucks
There are good reasons for many fleets to switch to electric power. But converting a fleet of work trucks to run on electricity is no flip of a switch. To start with, producing a work truck is far from simple. … Continue reading →
Cities step up to help homeowners with sidewalk repairs
Cracked, crumbling and uneven sidewalks are not only a neighborhood eyesore — they are also a safety hazard. However, when a repair is required, property owners are often surprised to learn that they are responsible for the public pathways that … Continue reading →
Recycling: There’s an app for that
The city of Tampa, Fla., has a new app to help cut waste and promote the reuse of just about anything. Tampa Trash and Recycling, as a part of the city’s Spring it Forward campaign in March, showed residents that … Continue reading →
Art brings Salem, Oregon’s, streets and buildings alive
Murals have been a “thing” since the days of cave painting. The earliest known one was discovered, still pristine, in the Chauvet cave in France and determined to be 45,500 years old. Used to express feelings, share messages, mark occasions … Continue reading →
Reno launches ‘Biggest Little Blockchain’ to test new record-keeping method
The city of Reno, Nev., harnessed the capabilities of blockchain technology to put city officials, staff, customers and the public all on the same page. In the process, city officials learned some things that could be helpful to other communities … Continue reading →
Ohio launches lead service line pipe replacement grants
Ohio is removing lead water pipes in various municipalities across the state. The H2Ohio program was launched by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in 2019 as a larger initiative to not only remove lead water pipes but also reduce agricultural phosphorus … Continue reading →
NCRWA apprenticeship program seeks to replenish retirees in the wastewater field
Five or six years ago, the National Rural Water Association realized that approximately 50% of its wastewater employees would be retiring in just a few years. With this knowledge, the North Carolina Rural Water Association began developing and putting together … Continue reading →
