Monday, June 22 marked the premiere of the History Channel special, "The Crumbling of America." The two-hour long special takes a hard look at the current status of America’s infrastructure, including water and wastewater collection systems, bridges, highways, levees and dams as well as the power grid. The producers of the segment were informed in part by the results of ASCE's 2009 Report Card.

RJN Group, Inc. lent our expertise to the taping of the special segment. Primarily focusing on the status of America’s wastewater collection systems, RJN field crews operating out of our St. Louis, Missouri office were shown performing smoke testing and inspections of several sites in the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. The footage begins at about 55 minutes into the 2 hour special and lasts for approximately 10 minutes.

As a national expert, RJN Group has performed hundreds of Sanitary Sewer Evaluation Surveys, many of them in major cities across the country including Dallas, Texas; Fayetteville, Arkansas; a number of the Chicago-area suburbs; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Baltimore, Maryland; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Virginia Beach, Virginia; and many more.

"The Crumbling of America" features on-location shooting and computer-generated animation to illustrate the kinds of disasters that loom with inaction. RJN was approached by Actuality Productions to facilitate understanding of the serious situation of aging wastewater collection infrastructure in America.

To learn more about the show, please visit the History Channel’s Web site for a detailed summary of the special and upcoming dates and times of future airings: The Crumbling of America.

America's infrastructure is collapsing. Tens of thousands of bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. A third of the nation's highways are in poor or mediocre shape. Massively leaking water and sewage systems are creating health hazards and contaminating rivers and streams. Weakened and under-maintained levees and dams tower over communities and schools. And the power grid is increasingly maxed out, disrupting millions of lives and putting entire cities in the dark. The Crumbling of America explores these problems using expert interviews, on location shooting and computer generated animation to illustrate the kinds of infrastructure disasters that could be just around the bend. – The History Channel web site.