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The end of useful life. Woman what to do . Wssc is working on that costly problem right now. Brunhart its not only true here, but its true throughout our nation. Narrator across the United States, cities and towns are facing the challenge of aging and outdated Drinking Water, wastewater, and stormWater Infrastructure. Its a national problem. But it needs to be approached system by system. Allbee lets frame the systems in terms of the proper context. We have around 16,000 wastewater systems. We dont have a single wastewater system we have 16,000 of them. We have about 54,000 Drinking Water syst...

But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may never open again, leaving new york city without water. So they chose to keep them open. As a result, there has not been significant inspection, maintenance, or repair of the tunnels in decades. No one knows their current condition. Hurwitz currently, city tunnel 1 and city Tunnel Number 2 would be feeding each half of the city. So youd lose half the city if you didnt have a replacement. Narrator with...

Creating a combined sewer overflow, or cso. There are over 700 communities in the United States with combined sewer systems. The other approach was to separate wastewater from stormwater, using two pipe networks. This separate system simply carries the stormwater away from the city. But even separate systems pollute the watershed. In developed areas, concrete and other impervious services prevent water from naturally soaking into the land. As the rainwater moves over the roads and concrete expanse, it captures trash and invisible chemicals, sending them straight to the nearest waterway untreat...

Failure can have a dramatic impact on the nation, and even internationally. So theres a really keen awareness that you always have to be fixing the system. Things corrode, they rust. They get to where you turn them on and nothing happens. But it is so totally used in every nook and cranny, that making any accommodation to shut it down, to do something to it, is very difficult. Narrator two Massive Underground tunnels, called simply tunnel 1 and tunnel 2, provide most of the citys water supply. They run hundreds of feet below manhattan, far deeper than the subways. Built at the beginning of the...

And Wastewater Infrastructure systems are actually paying for it. Narrator cities and municipalities across the United States are now facing this funding gap, between projected revenue and projected expenses, as they strive to maintain Water Quality and meet demand. New york is the most densely populated city in the u. S. And over 40 million tourists visit the city every year. The 1. 3 billion gallons of water required every day are delivered by a system of extraordinary scale and complex engineering. Man water is essential to the economic viability of new york city. Reliable infrastructure an...