by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2017 | Newsletter
You need to have many different skills if you work with sewage. One of them is a skill for crafting euphemisms. “What I politely call ‘the stuff’ is the Achilles’ heel of all wastewater plants,” said Chip Chesley, who, as director of the blandly named General Services...
by David Brooks | Dec 5, 2017 | Newsletter
New England has more than enough power production to meet its electricity needs this winter unless it is hit by a series of extreme events, according to the organization that runs the region’s power grid. Even if extreme cold hits, said ISO-New England, the region...
by David Brooks | Dec 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The Brunswick, Maine, Police Department may become the first police department in the country to use drones to patrol for trespassers along railroad tracks in town. It would also be make the first in Maine to use drones to look for potential criminal activity, rather...
by David Brooks | Dec 4, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Freshwater streams and rivers naturally clean up some forms of pollution originating from urban and agricultural areas, but increased storm intensity reduces this ability, which underscores the need to improve the management of nonpoint sources...
by David Brooks | Nov 30, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The city of Concord is looking at building an anerobic digester one day to better process its sewage. I’ll have a column about that next week – but while reporting for it, I came across this intriguing back-of-the-envelope calculation: Each week the...
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