The owner of a construction company, Peter Dillon, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with a deadly trench collapse. The collapse happened in November 2021 in Breckenridge. Marlon Diaz, 22, died when a trench collapsed while he and other crew members installed a sewer line. According to a May 2002 citation, Dillon told OSHA… >> Read More
Massive water main break within the City of Dallas. Perhaps tens of millions of gallons of drinking water discharging daily for the past five years into the Great Trinity Forest. No fix from the city. Continuous discharge at thousands of gallons per minute is flooding hundreds of acres of bottomland hardwood floodplain forest lessening our… >> Read More
BLANCO, Texas (KXAN) — City of Blanco Mayor Mike Arnold said the city’s water reserves have refilled enough to serve the city for the next few days under current Stage 6 water restrictions. He attributes the tightened restrictions to maintenance issues the city’s water supplier is facing. Friday, the city issued an emergency notice on… >> Read More
While officials say some of the wastewater has been diverted back to the treatment plant, 10% of the city’s wastewater is still entering the river. A sewer pipe that crosses beneath the Winooski River broke on Wednesday morning and is dumping about 10% of Burlington’s wastewater flow into the flooded river, which will ultimately reach… >> Read More
Due to a lack of water, the state of Arizona has announced that it will not approve any more building permits for single-family homes that rely on wells in Maricopa County, CleanTechnica reported. Like much of the western U.S., Arizona has been facing a huge drought for many years. A shortage of rainfall has led… >> Read More