8 Tips States Can Borrow From Northern Neighbors for Future Storms

By Jeremy Nakashima, PE and Jim Holzapfel, PE

After Winter Storm Uri devastated Texas, water and wastewater utilities are asking one question: “How can we prepare for a future event?” In northern states like Illinois, many of the mitigation measures that are implemented are simple, practical and inexpensive. Jeremy Nakashima and Jim Holzapfel discuss eight measures in Pumps & Systems Magazine that Texas (or any state not as prepared for winter storms) can borrow from northern utilities.