Editorial Articles

Baking and cooking are the cornerstones behind Leslie Carreiro’s career as a chemist. Working first for a pharmaceutical company, then in the...

With one swipe of a smartphone, customers at the Brunswick (Maine) Sewer District can enter the world of wastewater and learn about...

Two facilities install Neptune-Benson ETS-UV disinfection systemThe County of New Castle, Delaware, awarded a contract to upgrade the UV disinfection system at...

People/AwardsMantech, based in Guelph, Ontario, received the Wastewater Technology Award at the 2015 Water’s Next award program. The award was given for...

Cloth media filters help boost capacity and cut backwash volumeProblem: The Portland (Indiana) Wastewater Treatment Plant had been using six granular media...

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...

Swing check valves from Val-Matic Valve & Manufacturing, offered with either drop-tight resilient seating or aluminum bronze metal, are designed for municipal...

The Pocomoke City Wastewater Treatment Facility isn’t the only beneficiary of a new solar photovoltaic installation in its small Maryland community. The...

How well does your organization support operations professionals? For that matter, what have you done lately to help your colleagues advance in...

Struvite is a persistent concern in many clean-water plants. The substance (chemical name magnesium ammonium phosphate) can build up inside anaerobic digesters...

The City of Chattanooga’s Moccasin Bend Wastewater Treatment Plant sits on 184 acres in the National Park Service’s Moccasin Bend Archeological District,...

Until the upgrade for the Warren (Ohio) Water Pollution Control facility becomes reality, Mike Welke and his crews nurse and coerce every...

Variable-frequency drives (VFDs) have been used for decades to control multistage centrifugal blowers. The increasingly popular turbo blowers also use VFDs for...

Caring. Karen Hawkins and co-workers use that word a lot. As superintendent of Fairborn (Ohio) Utilities, Hawkins has made concern for employees...

The Springfield (Illinois) Metro Sanitary District was formed in 1924 to address the challenges of a growing community where raw sewage flowed...

Winter blooms of Microthrix parvicella at the James R. Dilorio Water Reclamation Facility caused extreme slowing of the 30-minute solids settling rate....