Editorial Articles

Meltric receptacle box with circuit protectionThe receptacle/wall box combination with integral circuit protection from Meltric Corp. combines the safety of a pre-wired...

The Metro-Tech II line of controllers from Metropolitan Industries Inc. integrates pump operations and displays information on its color user interface. The...

Echologics signs with Las Vegas Valley Echologics secured a one-year service agreement with Las Vegas Valley Water District to use the company’s leak...

Aurora Water interim director Dan Mikesell explains what motivates employees at the award-winning Charles A. Wemlinger and Thomas J. Griswold water treatment...

When demand on its eight groundwater wells threatened to exceed capacity, the City of Wilsonville, Ore., faced a choice: Add more wells...

Powdersville Water District superintendent Chris Rasco easily sums up the philosophy that has won excellence awards for the district and its employees. “We’re...

From the outside, the new water treatment plant in Madbury, N.H., may look merely average. In reality, it includes many forward-thinking, energy-saving...

Water utilities use a variety of technologies to measure and optimize pressure on their systems and detect leaks. Now IBM is testing...

As guardians of an important underground resource, the leaders of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California find one of their great...

PEOPLE/AWARDS James A. Floystrop, P.E., CME, associate and water resources senior project manager in Dewberry’s office in Parsippany, N.J., has been named president...

Pumps lower operating expenses Problem Three 300 hp long-shaft pumps at the Baltic Avenue Pump Station in Atlantic City, N.J., were sized to handle...

Rapid growth, tighter regulations and aging infrastructure were challenging the wastewater systems in Clackamas County, Ore. In response, two wastewater districts teamed...

When the former Greater Jacksonville (N.C.) Wastewater Treatment Facility became unusable, the city took “makeover” to the extreme and turned its infrastructure...

The South Kitsap Water Reclamation Facility in Port Orchard, Wash., doubles as an energy test site for a company pioneering a new...

The most expensive part of a wastewater treatment plant is not the mechanical equipment — it’s the massive concrete tanks and other...

Red Valve offers selection guide Red Valve Company Inc. offers a valve selection guide for wastewater treatment plants. A detailed treatment plant layout...

A few months ago, the news brought reports of three serious incidents in one week at wastewater treatment plants nearly spanning the...

Beating the Bugs In regard to your article, “Where Have All the Solids Gone?” (Lab Detective, TPO, June 2012), we have had pretty...

Curb appeal is a big deal for operators at the President Street Wastewater Reclamation Facility in downtown Savannah, Ga. It shows in...