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Cleaning U.S. groundwater to cost at least $127 billion
The National Research Council reports that about 10% of the 126,000 sites that have contaminated groundwater are "complex," meaning restoration is unlikely to be achieved in the next 50 to 100 years due to technological limitations. Most of the funding will come from public sources.
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Dec. 14: Find Out Why Your Landfill's Overheating
Three PHDs and a PE explain what's going on at so many North American facilities. Kinda wonky, but you can use the webinar for continuing education credit.
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Disaster blasters
From Oct. 20 through Nov. 7, during one of California's driest years on record, a large swath of the state was engulfed in flames. As in all natural disasters, public works played a critical role. Employees were assigned to fire crews to designate evacuation routes and close roads. Before the last embers were extinguished, they were repairing roads, rebuilding bridges, and reinforcing the fragile landscape that can quickly turn a simple rainstorm into another disaster.
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