{"id":77659,"date":"2010-08-12T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zonda-develop.go-vip.net\/concrete-construction\/article\/progress-remediated_o"},"modified":"2010-08-12T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T15:23:11","slug":"progress-remediated_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zonda-develop.go-vip.net\/concrete-construction\/projects\/infrastructure\/progress-remediated_o\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress Remediated"},"content":{"rendered":"\r<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last night I came home to a recorded message explaining how to file for flood-related damages now that Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn&#8217;s declared Cook County a disaster area. Over the weekend, some areas of Chicagoland got 7 inches in 24 hours, filling basements to the ceiling. The owner of a building I used to work in plans to ask FEMA to condemn it and return it to the flood plain. It was built in the mid-1950s, when it never occurred to anyone \u2014 or no one cared \u2014 how the burgeoning western suburbs would one day affect the streams and creeks that wind through them.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though infrastructure failures are rare, they&#8217;re almost always spectacular. The next time residents are screaming for the heads of government officials and employees, try to remember how fast and how far you&#8217;ve advanced the nation&#8217;s quality of life.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This continent has supported roughly four centuries of uninhibited, sometimes willy-nilly, growth. You&#8217;ve managed to alleviate the negative consequences of that growth in roughly four decades.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s like we&#8217;re in the final stages of a national infrastructure diet: The more overweight you are, the faster the pounds come off. But whether you&#8217;re a little or a lot over your ideal weight, losing those final few pounds is murder. You can revise the goal, satisfied that what you&#8217;ve accomplished is good enough, and start the lifelong process of keeping it off; or you can push on to the finish. And <i>then<\/i> start the lifelong process of keeping it off.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Clean Water and Safe Drinking Water acts are younger than I am (and probably a lot of you, too). In less than 40 years, we&#8217;ve cleaned up the worst messes and now, with stormwater, are wrestling with those final few pounds. That&#8217;s a much more diffuse \u2014 and thus much more complicated \u2014 goal requiring cross-jurisdictional and cross-functional solutions. Similarly, tap water would be \u201csafer\u201d if we weren&#8217;t constantly developing new drugs, and new ways to detect them in water supplies.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been 54 years since we pledged $25 billion (in today&#8217;s dollars) to build an interstate highway system. Today, with the post-World War II menace of communism no longer hanging over our heads, we lack the motivation to revise the funding formula that spawned 41,000 miles of road and 55,000 bridges.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do our regulatory and funding procedures always make sense?<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No.<br>Are they fair?<br>Not always.<br>Should we consider revising some of the goals related to public works?<br>Maybe. Maybe not.<br>Could we do better?<br>Given the circumstances, I&#8217;m impressed we&#8217;ve done as much as we have, and continue to strive.<\/p>\r <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>&#8211; Stephanie Johnston<\/i>, <br><b>Editor in Chief<\/b><\/p>\r<\/div> \r","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I came home to a recorded message explaining how to file for flood-related damages now that Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn&#8217;s declared Cook County a disaster area. Over the weekend, some areas of Chicagoland got 7 inches in 24 hours, filling basements to the ceiling. 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