News Briefs: Flash Flooding Washes Away Sewer Pipes

In this week’s news briefs, a construction crew in Missouri scrambles to retrieve several pipes that were carried downstream from a job site, and Milwaukee renews the nation’s largest wastewater contract.
News Briefs: Flash Flooding Washes Away Sewer Pipes

“In 40 years, I’ve never seen anything like this.”

That was the reaction of Sterling Excavation project superintendent Danny Piles after flooding in Columbia, Missouri, washed away several sewer pipes that were to replace aging lines along Flat Branch Creek.

The city...

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