The first challenge for the Jackson Wastewater Treatment Plant was to reduce energy use by 10 percent. With that achieved, the goal...
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Wyoming Plant Targets Net Zero Energy Consumption
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The Predictive Maintenance Value of Vibration Monitors
Water and wastewater plant maintenance has undergone a revolution. Operators have moved from routinely servicing machinery at predetermined intervals regardless of condition...
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Alaska Plant Addresses Community Safety With Upgrade
For years, the Anchorage Water & Wastewater Utility had used chlorine gas as the disinfectant at its water and wastewater treatment plants.In...
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How One Midwest Treatment Plant Gives Back to Mother Nature
Creating a field of native grasses, wildflowers and trees to attract nesting birds and other wildlife has been rewarding for operators of...
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Organizational Merger Emphasizes 'One Water' Approach
The days of looking at water as separate entities — wastewater, drinking water, groundwater, stormwater — are rapidly fading. Consensus is forming...
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New Tech Takes on Primary Clarifier Duty in Small Footprint
Primary clarifiers have been basic equipment in wastewater treatment for decades, and they remain effective.Now, Hydro International offers an alternative form of...
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Sprucing Up Treatment Plants to Promote Positive Public Perception
If you had to describe a hierarchy for public officials’ status among community residents, firefighters would be near the top; water and...
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Worth Noting - May 2017
People/AwardsThe South Kingstown (Rhode Island) Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility received a 2016 Wastewater Treatment Regional Operations and Maintenance Excellence Award from the...
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B-frame circuit breaker offers smaller footprint, installation flexibility
Water system operators are constantly on the lookout for ways to add efficiency and reduce overall footprint. The PowerPact B thermal-magnetic-type circuit...
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Scale allows operators to accurately gauge polymer usage
Increasingly strict federal and state reporting requirements have created a need for water and wastewater plant operators to easily and accurately track...
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High Efficiency Gets Missouri Operator Lofty Award
Chief operator Bryan Leighow was surprised when he won the 2015 Operator of the Year award from the Missouri Water Environment Association...
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Small Award-Winning WWTP Team Says It's All About Service
The four operators at the Eagle Mountain Water Reclamation Plant are used to doing a lot with a little. Their efficiency and...
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The City of Ogden's Plant Takes a Step Up in Class
When the summer heat arrives in northwestern Utah near Great Salt Lake, the city of Ogden calls on a modern tool to...
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Old Equipment at Cape Fear Plant Proves Age is No Barrier
Maybe you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but that doesn’t mean an old treatment plant can’t keep up with the...
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Treatment Plant Gives Tours to 700 Students in 2 Days
Treating and recycling 4.3 mgd is routine business for the Ironhouse Sanitary District. Giving plant tours to 700 sixth-graders and chaperones in...
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This Reclaimed Wastewater Lake is the Center of a Community
People around Lake Mission Viejo in California now fish, swim and water ski in treated reclaimed wastewater. It comes from the Advanced...
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Simple Solutions for Process Improvement
Sometimes it doesn’t take a major plant upgrade to drive down the nutrient content of effluent and improve overall plant performance.Bob Gabry,...
