s***q
发帖数: 10585 | 1 霉D国水基础设施连"D"都保不住了...现在是D-
其实这帮搞civil engineering的工程师还是挺负责的
只不过无奈上面是米犹
Advocacy group gives water infrastructure a D-
A coalition of unions and environmental advocacy groups held a press
conference in Des Moines today to draw attention to the nation’s “
crumbling” water infrastructure.
The American Society of Civil Engineers recently gave a D-minus grade
to
both drinking and waste water infrastructure in the U.S.
Des Moines Public Works Director Bill Stowe is a member of the
American
Society of Civil Engineers, but said it doesn’t take an engineer to
recognize the problem. “The real point of today’s discussion is to try
and
wake up voters, taxpayers and rate payers to the seriousness of the
situation,” Stowe said.
Jim Piazza is executive director of the Heavy Highway and
Construction
Contractors Association. He said federal funding is needed now in Iowa
to
make improvements and ensure public safety.
“Much of our state’s underground infrastructure was built 80 to 100
years
ago and is insufficient for the growth our communities have
experienced over
that same time period,” Piazza said. “Our system is badly in need of
repair, upgrade or rebuilding.” The coalition is calling on Congress
to
support President Obama’s jobs bill, the American Jobs Act, as a way
to
begin tackling the needed repairs.
“When we compare the needs of our crumbling infrastructure — our
roads,
bridges and underground water systems — with the fact that our
nation’s
construction industry is suffering double-digit unemployment…it only
makes
sense, as a nation, we invest in the critical needs of our
infrastructure
and as a result, put hard working Americans back to work,” Piazza
said.
A press release from the group noted 40% of rivers and 46% of lakes in
America are “too polluted for fishing, swimming or even aquatic life.”
Stowe believes the situation is even worse in Iowa.
“Any of us who’ve lived any place other than Iowa — I’m a native
Iowan,
but I’ve lived in other places — recognize that Iowa’s water quality
is
the worst in the United States,” Stowe said. On Monday, a malfunction
at a
pumping station in Des Moines resulted in nearly 400,000 gallons of
raw
sewage being discharged into the Des Moines River.
Stowe said the station’s aging equipment was partly to blame. “In this
case, it was a 1960s, vintage technology that failed and discharged
sewage
into the Des Moines River,” Stowe said. “Certainly, it’s an example of
if
we had more up to date equipment — both in energy delivery and the
automated systems that control that – the risk of that happening would
be
substantially less.”
Stowe and Piazza both criticized federal lawmakers and the field of
presidential candidates for focusing more attention on tax cuts and
social
issues – rather than addressing infrastructure needs that could boost
employment. | D*******o
发帖数: 3229 | 2 Water infrastructure, not water quality. | s***q
发帖数: 10585 | 3 thanks, corrected OP
【在 D*******o 的大作中提到】
: Water infrastructure, not water quality.
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发帖数: 13337 | 4 可以改变评判级别。
增加无数级下级。
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【在 s***q 的大作中提到】
: 霉D国水基础设施连"D"都保不住了...现在是D-
: 其实这帮搞civil engineering的工程师还是挺负责的
: 只不过无奈上面是米犹
: Advocacy group gives water infrastructure a D-
: A coalition of unions and environmental advocacy groups held a press
: conference in Des Moines today to draw attention to the nation’s “
: crumbling” water infrastructure.
: The American Society of Civil Engineers recently gave a D-minus grade
: to
: both drinking and waste water infrastructure in the U.S.
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