Editorial Articles

In a couple of months, a team of operators from all over the U.S. and around the world will join the Operations...

WASTEWATER By Rick Lallish Oxidation-reduction probes read changes in potential when dissolved oxygen is present and not present. ORP readings of -200 mV typically...

UV light is a proven disinfection agent for drinking water and wastewater treatment. A variety of technologies are available. The key challenge...

People/Awards John Rellick retired as superintendent of the Indiana Borough (Pennsylvania) Wastewater Treatment Plant after 34 years of service. He started his career...

Every kid wants a pet fish in the bedroom — until it’s time to scrub off the algae that grows on the...

A pilot project significantly boosted biogas yield by pretreating biosolids with steam, pressure and oxygen before anaerobic digestion. The process converted 80-85% of...

Industrial dairy turns to chopper pump system to recirculate foul air ProblemHollandia Dairy, one of California’s oldest independent dairies had a buildup of odorous...

In recent years inflation has driven up the cost of almost everything. Energy costs have seen some of the most extreme increases.Since...

Blowers EURUS BLOWER ZZ SERIES ZZ Series blowers from Eurus Blower are drop-in replacements for competitor blowers. They have heavy-duty cast housings, machined impellers,...

If you were to describe the Peace River Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority in one word, it would be “resilience.”Whether it’s Florida’s...

Growing cities have to pay big to sustain wastewater treatment capacity and meet permit limits. Austin Water does so with conviction. For illustration,...

You don’t typically picture a clean-water superintendent writing grants for items like a street sweeper, flower plantings for the downtown, or vests...

The Cherokee County (Georgia) Water & Sewer Authority has been expanding and improving its public awareness and outreach initiatives for the past...

The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City needed a cost-effective and compact wastewater treatment process to replace an aging package...

Officials in Slayton had three reasons to look at a new aeration system for the city’s wastewater treatment lagoons. The first reason was...

The Marshal Fire of December 2021 was the most destructive in the history of Colorado. The calamity might have been worse if...

When a wastewater treatment staff literally lives at the plant for five straight days during an ice storm, you’d expect them to...

North Dakota isn’t just a windswept place haunted only by antelope and jackrabbits. From 2010 to 2021, the state’s population grew by just...

Struvite had become a serious problem for the Tres Rios Water Reclamation Facility in Arizona’s Pima County. The buildup of struvite occurred downstream...