Baking and cooking are the cornerstones behind Leslie Carreiro’s career as a chemist. Working first for a pharmaceutical company, then in the...
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How Smart Technology Can Educate Utility Customers
With one swipe of a smartphone, customers at the Brunswick (Maine) Sewer District can enter the world of wastewater and learn about...
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Contracts & Awards - November 2015
Two facilities install Neptune-Benson ETS-UV disinfection systemThe County of New Castle, Delaware, awarded a contract to upgrade the UV disinfection system at...
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Worth Noting - November 2015
People/AwardsMantech, based in Guelph, Ontario, received the Wastewater Technology Award at the 2015 Water’s Next award program. The award was given for...
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Treatment and Filtration
Cloth media filters help boost capacity and cut backwash volumeProblem: The Portland (Indiana) Wastewater Treatment Plant had been using six granular media...
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Pre-Engineered Wastewater Systems Reduce Installation, Treatment Costs
The Ideal Pre-Fab line of pre-engineered wastewater treatment systems from World Water Works (WWW) are designed for permanent industrial applications.
“For many industrial...
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Lead-Free, Metal-To-Metal Swing Check Valves Certified For Drinking Water
Swing check valves from Val-Matic Valve & Manufacturing, offered with either drop-tight resilient seating or aluminum bronze metal, are designed for municipal...
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10-Acre Solar Facility Lowers Energy Bills At Treatment Plant
The Pocomoke City Wastewater Treatment Facility isn’t the only beneficiary of a new solar photovoltaic installation in its small Maryland community. The...
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Charlotte Water's Jackie Jarrell Talks About Raising the Status of Operators
How well does your organization support operations professionals? For that matter, what have you done lately to help your colleagues advance in...
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AirPrex Process Solves Struvite Problems
Struvite is a persistent concern in many clean-water plants. The substance (chemical name magnesium ammonium phosphate) can build up inside anaerobic digesters...
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Landscaping Complements Plant’s Civil War Surroundings
The City of Chattanooga’s Moccasin Bend Wastewater Treatment Plant sits on 184 acres in the National Park Service’s Moccasin Bend Archeological District,...
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Ingenuity and an Electrical Engineering Technology Degree Are Strong Assets for an Ohio Operator
Until the upgrade for the Warren (Ohio) Water Pollution Control facility becomes reality, Mike Welke and his crews nurse and coerce every...
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Revitalizing Old Aeration Blowers With VFDs
Variable-frequency drives (VFDs) have been used for decades to control multistage centrifugal blowers. The increasingly popular turbo blowers also use VFDs for...
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Ohio Operator Brings Heart to Management Style
Caring. Karen Hawkins and co-workers use that word a lot. As superintendent of Fairborn (Ohio) Utilities, Hawkins has made concern for employees...
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Spring Creek Plant Finds Efficiency With SCADA
The Springfield (Illinois) Metro Sanitary District was formed in 1924 to address the challenges of a growing community where raw sewage flowed...
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How Kemira PAC Product Eliminates Microthrix Blooms
Winter blooms of Microthrix parvicella at the James R. Dilorio Water Reclamation Facility caused extreme slowing of the 30-minute solids settling rate....



















