Blog Archives: 2025
It’s Time to Get Serious About Service Line Inventories
Posted by Stacy Silva on Tuesday, August 26, 2025
The countdown for initial service line inventories (SLIs) has reached zero, and that deadline has passed us. But the clock is still ticking for Pennsylvania water systems. By 2037, every system must...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Potable Water | Municipal Engineering | Environmental | Budgeting & Funding | Regulations | Revised Lead & Copper Rule (RLCR)
Structures, Systems, Spreadsheets, and the High Stakes of Capital Planning with Large Portfolios
Posted by Kirsten Deysher on Monday, August 11, 2025
Facilities leaders face a blunt truth: “If you don't have an objective assessment to guide decision-making on your buildings, you’re likely over/underspending, exposing risk, and losing...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus
Tagged: Facility Condition Assessment (FCA) | Facility Planning & Management
Precision Humidity Control in Industrial Facilities: When “Close” isn’t Close Enough
Posted by Stuart Heisey on Wednesday, July 30, 2025
When it comes to humidity control in industrial facilities, missing the mark can carry greater consequences than in most other building types. While any occupied space can garner comfort complaints...
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Categories: Industrial & Manufacturing
Tagged: Mechanical | Facility Planning & Management | Building Humidity
Understanding the Importance of Industrial Pretreatment
Posted by Natalie O'Connor on Friday, July 25, 2025
Manufacturing and industrial businesses like breweries, bakeries, paper mills, and chemical plants, among others, generate industrial wastewater, which is discharged into our sewers and Publicly...
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Categories: Industrial & Manufacturing
Tagged: Wastewater | Environmental | Regulations
ASHE 2025 Annual Conference
Posted by Entech Engineering on Thursday, July 24, 2025
Join us July 27-30 at the American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) 2025 Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference. Alongside a name change from the previous, more broadly branded 'ASHE...
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Categories: Buildings & Campus
Tagged: Facility Condition Assessment (FCA) | Facility Planning & Management
From Chaos to Consistency: The Role of Equalization in Industrial Wastewater
Posted by Katie Anorve-Andress on Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Wastewater treatment systems thrive on consistency, yet industrial wastewater is rarely consistent. From product changeovers and sanitation days to the surprise corporate visit requiring...
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Categories: Industrial & Manufacturing
Tagged: Wastewater | Environmental
Enhancing Infrastructure Assessments with Form-Centric & Mobile Data Collection
Posted by Caitlin Zerman on Friday, May 30, 2025
Form-centric and mobile data collection tools are transforming infrastructure assessments. Infrastructure is the backbone of any community, supporting everything from transportation to utilities....
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Municipal Engineering | GIS Mapping
PennTec 2025: Funding, FOG, and Forward Thinking
Posted by Entech Engineering on Tuesday, May 27, 2025
The conference season is in full swing and, at Entech, when we have expertise, we don’t hoard it, we actively share it. Building on our team’s strong presence and contributions at recent...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure | Entech, Engineering, & Beyond
Tagged: Wastewater | Engineering
5 Reasons to Reduce Inflow and Infiltration
Posted by Tim Lester on Wednesday, May 21, 2025
If your sewer system experiences inflow or infiltration, it could cause a Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO), which is bad news for your community. SSOs can result in public health hazards, unsanitary...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Wastewater | Stormwater | Health & Safety
5 Things You Need to Know About PA's MS4 PAG-13 Permit Updates
Posted by Shawn Fassl on Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) has recently announced updates to the PAG-13 General Permit for Discharges of Stormwater from Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer...
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Categories: Municipal Infrastructure
Tagged: Stormwater