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“What’s the most dangerous place in your wastewater treatment plant? Headworks. Biosolids area. Electrical panels. Think again. It could be your...
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Making ‘Lemonade’
When presented with a bushel of lemons, the crew at the Goleta Sanitary District knows just what to do. The district, a...
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Letters - May 2014
Leave The Names AloneI do not support the movement to change the titles of wastewater treatment plant operators. The idea behind the...
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Brown-Bagging It
When the Colorado city of Fort Morgan launched a series of Brown Bag Lunches to help residents learn about city departments, Mike...
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Power Marriage
When I talk to longtime clean-water plant managers about staffing, it usually turns out they had more people on their teams 15...
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Inside The Walls
Amid noise and nonstop radio traffic, Mark Riggsby quietly tutors an inmate on the finer points of water testing and treatment.
Such mentoring...
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From The Ground Up
If Caryl Ann Giles and her team act like they’ve grown up with the Spring Hill Water System, it’s because they have.“I...
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Highly Decorated
Excellence is a way of life at Alabama’s Harvest-Monrovia Water & Sewer Authority. The authority’s 10 mgd Burwell Water Treatment Plant and...
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Building A Bridge
Imagine you’re in charge of hiring a new operator for your water plant. Your choice comes down to two applicants. Both have...
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Ounce of Prevention: Tank Inspection 101No one wants to hear about storage tank ruptures or leaks. And preventing these potential catastrophic occurrences is...
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More Water Out
Sludges are a fact of life in water treatment; the key is to handle them efficiently and cost-effectively. A major part of...
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End to End
It is only about 12 miles from Angeles to the Philippines volcano Pinatubo. If an eruption is imminent, the city’s 200,000 inhabitants...
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A Look at Everything Water
Everything water will be under one roof in June, as the AWWA’s 2014 Annual Conference & Exposition (ACE14) comes to Boston, Mass.,...
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Those Blue-Green Stains
The Florida Gateway College water program had an inquiry from a public works director of a small community about copper in drinking...
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Industry News - April 2014
ADS polypropylene pipe receives Ontario approvalThe Ontario Ministry of Transportation approved ADS polypropylene pipe for gravity flow sewer and water applications. The...
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It's a System
The Palm Bay (Fla.) Utilities Department is advancing sustainability through management processes — it is the first utility in Florida to achieve...
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Worth Noting - April 2014
People/AwardsThe town of Blowing Rock, N.C., renamed its water treatment facility the Thomas G. McRary Water Plant in honor of a treatment...
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Just Ask Any Fourth-Grader
When a community is seriously short of water, every drop becomes more precious. The City of Rio Rancho, in an arid region...
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Worth Noting - April 2014
People/AwardsBob Conner, assistant director of the water and wastewater utility for the City of Lakeland (Fla.), was promoted to interim director.Peter A....
