What civil engineers are reading this week

• Emails can set legal standard of care for design-builders

  A court rules that a design-builder breached the standard of care based on a statement in an email. Here’s how seemingly routine communications can create legal risk – and how to protect yourself.

• EPA offering $30M in grant funding for small utilities

  The Environmental Protection Agency is making $30 million available to support technical assistance and training to benefit small drinking water and wastewater systems and private well owners.

• ASCE president-elect nominee for 2027 sees Society at ‘an inflection point’

  “Our members are navigating unprecedented demands” in their careers, says 2028 ASCE president-to-be Rossana D’Antonio, who sees the challenges as opportunities. Hear her vision for ASCE.

• California water agencies offer state water policy framework

  The Association of California Water Agencies has released an initiative aimed at making water policy a higher priority for California’s next governor, with an election this fall.

• 8 East Coast cities are at high or very high risk of ‘extreme’ flood damage

  New York and New Orleans face some of the greatest dangers based on current scenarios, a new study finds.

• Built for a planned space station, the Lunar Gateway's primary modules are corroded

  How could both a module being provided by Northrop Grumman and I-HAB from Europe be corroded? Northrop confirms the issue.