Virginia Beach Wastewater Collections Uses Hurricane As Motivation For Proactive System Solutions

Proactive approach to operation and maintenance helps Virginia Beach cut overflows and blockages in its huge, aging system.
Virginia Beach Wastewater Collections Uses Hurricane As Motivation For Proactive System Solutions
Virginia Beach Wastewater Collections Bureau workers Surjell Brickhouse (left) and Marcus Scott set up their Vac-Con combination truck to clean a sewer main in a residential area of Virginia Beach.

Twelve years ago the City of Virginia Beach got a wake-up call.

Its name was Hurricane Isabel.

The 2003 storm was the worst in recent memory and led to severe power outages, according to Tom Leahy, Virginia Beach director of public utilities.

The power loss didn’t...

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