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I just saw an article in the Byron Review newspaper saying Dale Wellik, clean-water plant operator in Dodge Center earned recognition from...

The Water Environment Association and its Member Associations promote the U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP) as a way to increase students’...

This year’s National Public Works Week (NPWW) theme of “Because of Public Works…” signifies the quality of life brought to communities through...

It’s great to take kids on treatment plant tours. It’s better – and more aligned with The Fire Chief Project – if...

Sometimes an adverse event – like a sanitary sewer overflow – can become an opportunity. It’s happening now in Ashville, N.C. where,...

Do you know what a euphemism is? It’s a clever (and not in a good way) trick for making something sound better...

National Drinking Water Week is just around the corner. Are you ready? Countless water treatment plants are ramping up for a week...

If members of the public don’t understand what clean-water plants do, they are doubly uniformed about the beneficial use of anaerobic digester...

One way to attract people to a clean-water plant tour is to do something a little different. So, here’s a hat tip...

One precept of The Fire Chief Project is to “look great.” The City of Ocala, Fla., has installed a 760-foot-long sound barrier...

The lack of respect that comes to wastewater treatment plants and the profession starts with what we call ourselves. If we call...

This comment comes from Rachel Reese, a writer in Niceville, Fla.: I’d like to begin by saying that I love TPO magazine. You captured...

We know the status — as bleak as it may be — of America’s infrastructure thanks to the American Society of Civil...

People who work in the clean-water profession love it. Many wouldn’t quit it for the world. Yet out there in the public,...

Check out this submission from Kevin Shlatz, superintendent of Water Pollution Control for the Town of Enfield, Conn.: I agree with The Fire...

Who better to invite for a clean-water plant tour than Cub Scouts? They’re part of the Boy Scouts of America, for whom...

In April’s issue of Treatment Plant Operator, I launched The Fire Chief Project, a long-term effort to elevate the stature of people...

Last week we asked if Treatment Plant Operator magazine should include stories about industrial treatment systems and operators. We received this reply: "I think...

When we started Treatment Plant Operator 4.5 years ago, we debated whether we should stick to municipal treatment plants or expand into...