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National Conference of State Legislatures Legislative Summit Talks Infrastructure

August 11, 2016By. Maria Matthews

This week the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) held its  annual Legislative Summit in Chicago.  Approximately 5,000 state legislators, legislative staffers, federal officials and others gathered to gain invaluable knowledge from experts and fellow legislators to take back to their respective states. Attendees participated in an array of policy-producing committee meetings, issue forums and deep-dive sessions, including on......

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Tags: Drinking Water, infrastructure, infrastructure report card, public-private partnership, water, water infrastructure

California’s Orange County Infrastructure Isn’t Improving

July 21, 2016By. America's Infrastructure Report Card

The Orange County Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers today released its 2016 Orange County Infrastructure Report Card, grading 12 categories of the county’s infrastructure, resulting in an overall grade point average of “C+.” The Report Card was developed in collaboration with the UC Irvine Civil and Environmental Engineering Affiliates, an advisory group......

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Tags: Airports, aviation, California, energy, flood control, levees, parks, report card, schools, solid waste, transportation, water

Water Financing Experts Share Ideas to Improve Local Infrastructure

July 20, 2016By. America's Infrastructure Report Card

This Tuesday, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hosted a day-long event in Washington, D.C., for representatives from the public and private sectors to discuss emerging finance methods for addressing deficient community water infrastructure. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy opened the day stressing the need to “start thinking about these [water resources projects] as investments,......

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Tags: Atlanta, Drinking Water, economy, EPA, Georgia, HUD, Mississippi, social, wastewater, water

New Jersey Infrastructure Receives D+ Report Card

June 16, 2016By. America's Infrastructure Report Card

Today, the 2016 Report Card for New Jersey’s Infrastructure gave an overall D+ grade for the State’s infrastructure. The report evaluated 13 separate components of New Jersey’s infrastructure, all of which were given a grade based on the components’ condition, capacity, funding, future need, operation and maintenance, public safety, resilience, and innovation.  The transit and......

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Tags: bridges, dams, energy, hazardous waste, infrastructure, NJ, parks, ports, rail, roads, transportation, wastewater, water

Closing America’s Infrastructure Gap

May 09, 2016By. America's Infrastructure Report Card

Infrastructure is the backbone of our economy and when it’s not maintained all Americans feel the effects, but what does that look like in dollars for my family, my business and the overall economy? The American Society of Civil Engineers’ new economic study, Failure to Act: Closing the Infrastructure Investment Gap for......

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Tags: Airports, businesses, economy, electricity, income, jobs, ports, transportation, wastewater, water

Infrastructure in the News: Invest Now or Pay Later

April 15, 2016By. America's Infrastructure Report Card

Water and transit have each had their fair share of media attention this week. Water Week has highlighted our nation’s water infrastructure conditions and transit hearings and incidents are reinforcing investment needs. Water Week highlighted diverse needs across the country as more than 100 water and wastewater utility managers, operators and engineers visited Washington, D.C.......

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Tags: failure to act, transit, water

Infrastructure in the News: Transit issues escalate, water needs rise

March 25, 2016By. America's Infrastructure Report Card

The past two weeks have been packed with infrastructure crises and attention—as our nation’s water and transit have received both media attention and public scrutiny. Last week, the nation’s second busiest subway system, the D.C. Metro, shut down for one full day in order to undergo thorough inspection due to electrical malfunctions. CBS reported that......

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Tags: transit, water

Looking Into Humboldt County’s Water Infrastructure

March 24, 2016By. America's Infrastructure Report Card

Today the North Coast Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers released a new 2016 Report Card for Humboldt County’s Water Infrastructure to show the state of the water infrastructure across 19 water systems within Humboldt County, California. The report found that today’s water infrastructure earned a good B grade overall, but to keep a good......

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D.C. Infrastructure Report Card Gives C- Overall, Lowest Grade to Levees

January 14, 2016By. America's Infrastructure Report Card

The 2016 Report Card for D.C.’s Infrastructure is an independent review of the current state of infrastructure needs, capability and funding in D.C. by the National Capital Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Report Card was written over the past year by ASCE members from the D.C. region who assigned the grades......

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Tags: bridges, DC, Drinking Water, infrastructure, infrastructure report card, levees, rail, report card, roads, solid waste, transit, transportation, water

Alabama’s Infrastructure Grades Are In

December 10, 2015By. Becky Moylan

The inaugural Report Card for Alabama’s Infrastructure, released today, reveals that Alabama’s aging infrastructure needs attention, especially its dams. As the only state without a dam safety program, Alabama does not have a complete inventory of all the dams in the state. Without this, Alabama is unaware of its dam safety risk. At the last......

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Tags: Alabama, bridges, dams, report card, roads, solutions, transit, transportation, water