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APWAs Government Affairs team will present the latest regarding APWA’s public policy priorities in the U.S. The focus of the presentation will be a legislative update related to Congress and federal agencies and APWA’s public policy priorities: Transportation, Water Resiliency, and Emergency Management. The presentation will also include an overview of APWA’s advocacy resources for our members to be “the voice of public works” to government leaders, the public, and media.
Read MoreOver the past two years, municipalities across the nation have been conducting risk and resilience assessments and updated emergency response plans (ERPs) to ensure compliance with the American Water Infrastructure Act of 2018. The City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, partnered with Jacobs Engineering to conduct a comprehensive review of all city departmental ERPs to ensure compliance with National Incident Management System and Incident Command System. Developing an enterprise emergency response plan will facilitate effective coordination and cooperation between inter-city agencies and mutual supporting departments such as the Hamilton County and Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
Read MoreThe City has a combination of federal, state, and local compliance requirements, in addition to local surface water quality improvement programs, which have resulted in the construction of hundreds of watershed improvement projects. The projects include watershed improvement project retrofits (e.g., pond upfits, stormwater wetland, and rain garden retrofits) and stream and wetland restoration/improvement projects. The assets have been managed by individual departments, sites, and programs to varying degrees of success. In 2020, in order to improve the management consistency of these assets, the Charlotte Storm Water Services Department proposed the development of a Long-Term Stewardship Program (L-TS). This presentation will discuss the initial development of the L-TS program and the phased approach to building and implementing the program, and lessons learned.
Read MoreThe Regional Traffic Signal Synchronization Project (CV Sync) is Coachella Valley Association of Government’s (CVAG) major effort to advance the development and implementation of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and Smart Region Programs with an emphasis on the development of multi-jurisdictional and regional smart intersections, smart corridors, and broadband communication networks. The region will become smart cities ready through a high-speed secured communications network. This will be achieved by fitting intersections along 25 corridors with the latest advanced traffic signal controller units, cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) roadside units, ITS technologies, and a secured communication system. CVAG will be deploying connected vehicle technologies, including signal phase and timing (SPaT) and other basic safety messages via a vehicle onboard unit that will communicate with the roadway infrastructure.
Read MoreThe Margaret Turner Storm Drainage Improvement project consists of a 145-acre watershed located in northwest Charlotte, North Carolina, near Brookshire Boulevard. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services (CMSWS) identified this area for study and improvements due to reports of road flooding and residential structure flooding in the Margaret Turner subdivision. CMSWS partnered with The Isaacs Group P.C. to complete the planning study, design, public outreach, and construction administration services. Drainage improvements within the project area included a 13-foot by 4-foot reinforced concrete box culvert, a 42-inch pipe culvert, and natural channel improvements. Due to the space constraints, a detailed shoring plan for storm drainage construction was developed to protect existing infrastructure and install the new system. The design included extensive relocation of existing utilities and utility coordination during construction to reduce the disruption of services to the residents in the neighborhood.
Read MoreCommunities are facing unprecedented impacts from climate change, which effects how municipalities deliver services and increases risk to municipal assets. Integrating climate change considerations into asset management (for natural and engineered assets)…
Read MoreOn August 10, 2020, a derecho hit Cedar Rapids with winds of up to 140 miles per hour for 45 minutes. As a result, roads were impassible due to debris,…
Read MoreThe U.S. Composting Council (USCC) is focused on municipalities as the prime actors who can implement/oversee successful food scrap (or adding food scrap to yard waste composting) programs to close…
Read MoreEach community seems to have that one spot that always has crashes when winter weather arrives, or bridge that behaves differently than all the others at night. Why is that? Maybe you have sat through weather presentations before, but can’t figure out how to connect pictures of radars with what happens on your city streets. This session will cut through all the noise on the web and in apps and talk about what really impacts those hard to handle locations. The speaker will investigate the conditions that have the biggest impact on road conditions, and give you a chance to indulge in a little meteorology CSI by looking at examples and deciphering the clues of what happened. Bring your own weather challenges and get them solved on the spot.
Read MoreThis session will focus on some of the challenges and confusion that is prevalent in our profession when it comes to selecting deicer products. The speakers will address both the science and their experiences with liquid deicers.
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