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People/AwardsThe Delaware Rural Water Association named Robert Slater of Bridgeville 2013 Water Operator of the Year. Brian Murphy of Seaford was named...

Defender tank covers from Environetics are custom manufactured to fit the profile of new or existing potable water or wastewater treatment tanks.Designed...

The wastewater packaged lift station with submersible SEG grinder pump from Grundfos is designed for collecting and transferring wastewater from buildings, pressurized...

Integrated security system installed across all county facilitiesProblem: The Department of Facilities Management in Collier County, Fla., maintains and repairs more than...

For years water and wastewater utilities have monitored scattered pumping stations with SCADA systems. But what about communities that have only one...

Securing water and wastewater critical infrastructure from cyberattacks can be a tall order, as any system connected to the Internet, even indirectly,...

Editor's Note: The National Association of Clean Water Agencies recently announced a partnership with the National Milk Producers Federation to make watershed-level...

In 2006, the Bangor (Maine) Water District received a notice that electric rates were about to rise sharply. Electricity was already the...

The Graton (Calif.) Community Services District (GCSD) had just been formed in July 2004 when the Regional Water Quality Control Board issued...

Faced with a future mandate to limit phosphorus and nitrogen discharged to Jordan Lake, the City of Mebane (N.C.) expected to upgrade...

Nearly 20 years ago the tiny town of La Conner faced a biosolids dilemma. Located in Washington’s Skagit Valley, about 70 miles...

Being a good neighbor is a serious matter to the staff at the Red Oak Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility in the...

Drive-ups usually mean hamburgers, french fries and chocolate shakes. But in Santa Rosa, Calif., a playful spin on the concept made it...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Jeremy Cramer, who was superintendent of the Stevens Point Wastewater Treatment Plant at the time this article was researched and...

In the old days, several communities in Alabama’s St. Clair County depended on individual wells for drinking water — sources that weren’t...

Operator Ingenuity: How to Color-Code a WWTPWhat’s more colorful than a bag of Skittles? That would be the Yellow Springs Water Reclamation Facility,...

In favor of the changeThis is my first ever letter to the editor, but I thought with such a big change, you...

It’s said a drop of water takes 90 days to travel from Minnesota’s Lake Itasca down the Mississippi River to the Gulf...