Sewers & Sewer Line Maintenance Resources

1. Storm-Proofing Wastewater Infrastructure: Strategies To Protect Coastal Cities 9/1/2025
   When evaluating how to best prepare a city for climate threats, consider lessons from past extreme weather events and evaluate how to apply these lessons to infrastructure challenges. Coastal cities can act now to protect their infrastructure against future risks.
2. Acoustic Inspection As A Solution For Rural Water 8/28/2025

   To improve efficiency, a Virginia utility adopted acoustic inspection technology (SL-RAT) in 2018, enabling a shift to condition-based maintenance.

3. Managing Localized Flooding And Combined Sewer Overflows 8/12/2025

   The public tends to forget about underground infrastructure until systems are stressed or capacity is exceeded and it doesn’t perform as intended. In combined sewer systems, sometimes this results in localized flooding, which can pose hazards to human health, water quality, and the environment, and create financial burdens for utilities.

4. AMERICAN Plays A Role In Rebuilding Puerto Rico's Infrastructure 4/22/2025

   AMERICAN is helping rebuild Puerto Rico’s vital water infrastructure after Hurricane Maria, supplying American-made products to strengthen resiliency for 3.5 million residents and millions of annual visitors.

5. EPM Models Aburra Valley Sewerage System To Increase Flood Resilience And Mitigate Climate Change 4/17/2025

   Using advanced hydraulic modeling, EPM is analyzing how water flows through the sewerage system to inform decisions about operations, maintenance, network expansion, and environmental impact mitigation.

6. Pipe Rehabilitation Strategies: Extending Infrastructure Life And Ensuring Water Quality 2/14/2025
   Aging water and wastewater infrastructure is a growing challenge in the U.S. and worldwide. As corrosion and structural failures become more common, the risks to quality, public health, and service reliability increase. However, full replacement can be expensive and disruptive, making pipe rehabilitation a more cost-effective solution.
7. How Green Infrastructure Could Help Sewers Overwhelmed By Climate Change 12/27/2024
   Increasing population means sewers are sometimes overwhelmed without any rainfall at all. Then, add climate change to the mix. Heavier downpours are becoming more common, which spells trouble for sewer systems that simply cannot cope with increasing volumes of water. A combined sewer system is especially vulnerable.
8. SL-RAT At Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority 9/20/2024

   Little Rock looked to enhance their sophisticated cleaning program and reduce sanitary sewer overflow count by implementing new technologies.

9. Acoustic Sewer Inspection Saves Oakland, Maine, Time And Money 9/20/2024

   Discover how the SL-Rat program realized over $51,000 in crew labor and financial savings, while reducing the risk of sanitary sewer maintenance issues, for the town of Oakland, Maine.

10. Community Spotlight: Peachtree City, GA 9/19/2024

    Peachtree’s Sanitary Collection System is run by a hardworking team of six. This means a simple CCTV or cleaning job requires a third of their staff.