Editorial Articles

People/Awards John Mele, area manager North Atlantic Region for HOBAS Pipe USA, received the 2011 Harry P. Croft Award from the New Jersey...

The United States faces a huge shortfall in funding for renewal of water and wastewater infrastructure — while at the same time...

Rapid application development Problem Managing data at the 1.8 mgd Plover (Wis.) Wastewater Treatment Facility involved entering information into multiple files in different formats....

Many wastewater treatment plants use biogas for energy. Most haven’t won EPA awards for their work. And it’s a good bet to...

The concept of transparency today reminds us that government is always accountable to the people. A brief Internet search reveals a rapid...

Renewable Water Resources (ReWa) in Greenville, S.C., operates nine wastewater treatment plants and provides water reclamation to more than 400,000 people in...

Moyno Offers Grinder Product Brochure The grinder product brochure from Moyno Inc. describes the technical innovations, features and benefits of its complete line...

Amazing stuff, wastewater. Clean water comes into our homes and businesses. We dirty it up. Then it travels under the streets to...

A Green Improvement project at the wastewater treatment plant in the Village of Lyons, N.Y. (population 4,000), shows you don’t have to...

Chlorine analysis The SC400 colorimeter from Orbeco-Hellige can test two ranges of free and total chlorine — 0.01-2.0 mg/l and 0.1-8.0 mg/l. Users...

Larox Offers Air Release/Vacuum Valve The air/vacuum valve from Larox Flowsys Inc. automatically exhausts large volumes of air from the system while it...

The AquaCritox sustainable sludge destruction and wastewater treatment system from SCFI uses super-critical water oxidation (SCWO) to destroy organic waste. The odorless...

The Town of Essex in southwestern Ontario upgraded its facultative lagoon treatment systems with an alternative wastewater treatment plant — a continuous-fill,...

Jeff Rewerts hasn’t always been a wastewater treatment operator,but when he changed careers six years ago by joining the City of Mason...

Nutrients removed from municipal wastewater in Oregon are helping to restore the salmon fishery in British Columbia. It’s a novel arrangement built...

The Padre Dam Municipal Water District has been treating and recycling wastewater since the early 1960s — long before sustainability was a...

Everyone was surprised to spot this male bighorn sheep near the driveway entering the treatment plant property at the West Montrose Sanitation...

People/Awards Steve Henderson, a Cassville (Mo.) Wastewater Treatment Plant operator, received a Missouri Water and Wastewater Conference Operator of the Year Award. The City...

Improved capacity and space savings Problem The 3.15 mgd (design) treatment plant in Marseilles, Ill., averaged 1.25 mgd and produced 55 dry tons of...