Editorial Articles

To Justin Metz, something in Fort Knox is more valuable than the material stored in the United States Bullion Depository nearby. That’s...

Nutrient removal can be expensive. To meet new nitrogen limits for the 7.1 mgd wastewater treatment plant in Amherst, Mass., a state...

The Biological Air Treater  (BAT) from Purafil is designed to minimize odors from wastewater treatment plants, composting sites and wastewater lift stations...

Bel-Art test tube rackThe Scienceware Switch-Grid test tube rack from Bel-Art Products stores up to two sizes of tubes at the same...

UV Disinfection SystemThe Aquionics InLine+ series of UV disinfection systems use highly efficient medium-pressure lamps, allowing for a small footprint and...

A3- by 4-foot sign on the bank of the Shiawassee River in southeast Michigan tells the success story of the wastewater treatment...

Editor’s Note: TPO’s “Lab Detective” columnist was invited to speak at the 2012 WEFTEC Conference in New Orleans about operator training and...

The message about the harmful nature of some disposable wipes seems to be making its way into the mainstream. It’s reaching from...

CST Storage receives Canadian Welding Bureau certificationCST Storage received Canadian Welding Bureau certification, enabling it to provide welded structures in Canada that...

A clean-water agency’s name sets the tone for the way public perceives it. So when agencies call themselves “sewerage districts” or “sewer...

Beckton Sewage Treatment Works is one of five wastewater treatment plants in the Thames Water network in the United Kingdom and the...

Getting young people involved is easy for the Oakland County (Mich.) Water Resources Commissioner’s Office (WRC). The agency just asked kids to...

When the Rochester (Minn.) Water Reclamation Plant needed to expand, plant manager Chet Welle wanted to find long-term savings to help offset...

Capture and treatment system controls odorsProblemResidents in Bridgeport, Conn., complained of odors from a wastewater treatment facility. SolutionThe Water Pollution Control Authority selected...

people/awardsUnited Water received a 2012 Regional EPA Wastewater Treatment Plant Excellence Award for its Westerly (R.I.) Wastewater Treatment Plant. The plant was...

Superstorm Sandy battered BUT  didn’t overwhelm the New Shoreham Water Pollution Control Facility. That’s because acting superintendent Chris Blane and his crew...

From a distance, the Harpeth Valley UtilitiesDistrict’s (HVUD) wastewater treatment plant could be mistaken for a farm. That’s because it is a...

Although the concept of energy-neutral wastewater treatment facilities is relatively new, there are several examples of plants that have adopted strategies to...

ECOfluid USBF process in California to provide denitrificationECOfluid Systems, USBF technology providers, has been contracted to supply a new wastewater treatment plant...