New
Transportation Director for Missouri
The Missouri
Highway and Transportation Commission has selected Patrick
McKenna to serve as director of the state Department
of Transportation (MoDOT). Presently, McKenna is deputy commissioner of the
New
Hampshire DOT. He will start his new job on December 7.
He will start his new job at an
agency facing many challenges, particularly low revenues. MoDOT has not significant improvement or
expansion projects slated for the next five years because of lack of funding.
The agency anticipates it will not even have enough money to fully maintain roads
and bridges in the state within a couple of years.
McKenna will be coming from a
different environment. New Hampshire raised its fuel tax in
2014. It also has toll roads; Missouri
has none, though McKenna has suggested it should be on the table as a way to
pay for roads.
You can find out more about
McKenna and his appointment in the Kansas City Star, Jefferson City News-Tribune, or St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
California
Communities Consider Direct Potable Reuse
The drought in California
has led to a discussion of direct potable
reuse of wastewater.
This “toilet-to-tap” practice involves sending treated wastewater directly to
treatment for drinking
water. Some Texas
communities have already adopted this practice as a response to drought. You
can find out more here.
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