Drinking Water. 12 Categories. of Infrastructure. Wastewate

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What is the Report Card for Americas
Infrastructure?
An assessment of 12 infrastructure areas that are
essential to the nations economic survival and
quality of life.
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12 Categories of Infrastructure

• Roads
• Bridges
• Transit
• Aviation
• Schools
• Drinking Water

• Wastewater
• Dams
• Solid Waste
• Hazardous Waste
• Navigable Waterways
• Energy

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Overall Grade for Infrastructure
D
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Why Such a Low Grade?

• Explosive population growth and school enrollment
• Local political opposition and redtape
• The aging of the infrastructure

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RECENT HEADLINES
School will lose offices to gain space
OHare 2nd in flight delays
Time and wear taking their toll on nations
crumbling bridges
Large pothole on route 128 damages cars
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Roads D

• One-third of the nations roads are in poor or
  mediocre
• condition.
• Cost American drivers an estimated 5.8 billion
• annually in repairs.
• Contribute to as many as 13,800 highway
• fatalities annually.

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Local Roads

• Insert local road information here.

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Bridges C

• 29 of the nations bridges are structurally
• deficient or functionally obsolete.
• It will cost an estimated 10.6 billion a
• year for 20 years to eliminate bridge
• deficiencies.

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Local Bridges

• Insert local bridge information here.

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Transit C-

• Transit ridership has increased 15 since
• 1995 faster than airline or highway
• transportation.
• Capital spending must increase
• 41 just to maintain the system in its present
• condition.

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Local Transit

• Insert local transit information here.

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Aviation D

• Airport capacity increased only 1 in the past
• 10 years.
• Air traffic increased 37 during that time.
• Airport congestion delayed nearly 50,000
• flights in one month alone last year.

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Local Aviation

• Insert local aviation information here.

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Schools D-

• 75 of our nations school buildings are
• inadequate to meet the needs of school children.
  
• The average cost of capital investment needed
• is 3,800 per student.

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Local Schools

• Insert local school information here.

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Drinking Water D

• The nations 54,000 drinking water systems
• face an annual shortfall of 11 billion needed
• to replace facilities that are nearing the end of
• their useful life to comply with federal water
• regulations.

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Local Drinking Water

• Insert local drinking water information here.

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Wastewater D

• Some sewer systems are 100 years old.
• There is a 12 billion annual shortfall in
• funding for wastewater needs.

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Local Wastewater

• Insert local wastewater information here.

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Dams D

• There are more than 2,100 unsafe dams in the
• United States.
• There were 61 reported dam failures in the
• past two years.

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Local Dams

• Insert information on local dams here.

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Solid Waste C

• The amount of solid waste has declined 13
• since 1990, while the amount of waste
• recovered through recycling has nearly
• doubled. Most states have 10 years worth of
• landfill capacity.

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Local Solid Waste

• Insert local solid waste information here.

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Hazardous Waste D

• Effective regulation and enforcement have
• largely halted the contamination of new sites.
• The rate of Superfund clean-up has
• quickened though not enough to keep pace
• with the new sites listed.

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Local Hazardous Waste

• Insert local hazardous waste information here.

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Navigable Waterways D

• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has a backlog
• of 38 billion ins active authorized projects.
• Transportation demand on waterways is expected
• to double by 2020, and serious performance
• problems are likely if currently levels of
• investment continue.

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Local Navigable Waterways

• Insert local navigable waterway information here.

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Energy D

• Since 1990, actual capacity has increased only
• 7,000 megawatts (MW) per year, an annual
• shortfall of 30.
• More than 10,000 MW of capacity must be
• added each year until 2008 to keep up
• with the 1.8 annual growth in demand.

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Local Energy Needs

• Insert information on local energy needs here.

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Total Investment Needed
1.3 Trillion
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Ways to Take Action

• Send a letter to your elected officials
  supporting infrastructure investment. Let them
  know that quality infrastructure is a priority to
  you.
• On the ballot--vote YES on bond issues for
  schools, roads, and other infrastructure.
• Send a letter to the editor of your local
  newspaper
• about infrastructure concerns.

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Ways to Take Action (continued)

• Invite legislators to talk about local
  infrastructure concerns at neighborhood meetings.
• Urge organizations you are involved with to take
• action on infrastructure concerns.
• Volunteer with organizations working on
  infrastructure concerns.

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For More Information

• www.asce.org/reportcard