Editorial Articles

Treating water is more than a profession for Nate Tillis. You could easily say it's a calling. His deep appreciation for...

For a facility serving a population of 3,300, the City of West Liberty (Iowa) Wastewater Treatment Plant handles large flows and...

Nidec vertical pump motors TITAN II 5812 and 5813 frame vertical motors from Nidec Motor Corp. have a cast iron frame and...

While some wastewater facilities adjust their phosphorus-control chemical dose based on flow or by setting a fixed dose rate, the ability...

Drum thickener The ALDRUM G3 drum thickener from Alfa Laval increases solids load capacity up to 30 percent within the same footprint...

The JB Messerly Water Pollution Control Plant stretches for more than a mile along a major thoroughfare into the City...

Enjoys both sides In response to your column, "Which Side of the Fence?" (TPO, November 2012): As a lifetime career, I have...

Wastewater operators have spent many hours telling the public how their plants make two great products: Clean water and valuable...

The plant operator was at his wits' end. The sludge just wouldn't settle, no matter how he tried to control...

Headworks receives WBENC certification Headworks received certification from the Women's Business Enterprise National Council as a nationally recognized Women's Business Enterprise....

The lake that supplies drinking water to Brownwood in Central Texas was at historic low levels last summer, and the...

An upgrade converted the 200,000 gpd New Castle (Colo.) activated sludge wastewater treatment plant to a 600,000 gpd Kruger AnoxKaldnes...

Teaching environmental awareness via Internet video messaging doesn't sound like the kind of thing a sewerage commission would do, but...

When California's South Coast Air Quality Management District enacted part of Rule 1110.2 in 2008 covering operation of engines fueled...

Temporary belt press provides relief Problem The dewatering equipment at the Grand Chute-Menasha West Wastewater Treatment Facility in Neenah, Wis., had to be...

Orenco TCOM telemetry control panels TCOM telemetry control panels from Orenco Systems are a simplified, affordable SCADA system for facility managers and...

PEOPLE/AWARDS The Water Environment Federation (WEF) named its 2012-13 Board of Trustees. Members are: President, Cordell Samuels, plant superintendent, Duffin Creek Water Pollution...

In a state that appears to be emerging from one of its worst droughts on record, keeping Texans up to...

The U.S. EPA is studying the effects of low concentrations of chromium (VI) — hexavalent chromium — in drinking water. Because of the...