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The Florida Keys are a 127-mile chain of small islands that bring a unique geography to Monroe County, Fla. So when it comes to providing thousands of residents and millions of tourists with public services across land and sea, you can’t let something as big as an ocean get in your way. The state of Florida is mandating that a central wastewater system and treatment facility be constructed and completed throughout the Keys by Dec. …
Once you cross the 18-Mile Stretch into the Florida Keys from the mainland, the world seems to turn at a happily slower pace. By car, there is only one way to get there — a 127.5-mile, mostly two-lane road known as the Overseas Highway (U.S. 1). It travels along a patchwork of land and sea featuring 42 bridges including the Seven Mile Bridge atop portions of the former Overseas Railroad. Only an estimated 76,300 people …
Atlantic Street in Springfield, Mo., is notorious for water line breaks. It has been cut up and torn up more times than anyone can count to make repairs on a 1925 cast iron water main that is buried only three to four feet underneath. Any kind of weather — heat waves, cold snaps, droughts and downpours — can cause the ancient pipe to burst or rip at the joint under the patched street. A recent …
Washington D.C. is home to some of the United States’ most prized and revered memorials. To the nearly 24 million people who visited the mall in 2011, the Reflecting Pool was more science project than a scenic and iconic tourist stop. Several key improvements were needed to keep the largest and most famous reflecting pool in the capital sustainable for years to come. The pool, originally constructed in the early 1920s, has been relatively untouched …