Editorial Articles

For weeks the staff at the Clarkston Wastewater Treatment Plant battled an aggravating overpopulation of Daphnia in the secondary clarifiers. The tiny crustaceans, often called...

To call the Peirce Island Wastewater Treatment Facility a success story is an understatement. The plant, recently upgraded to advanced secondary treatment and...

Many high school students find their first jobs at McDonald’s or Burger King. Not Wade Lagle. “I didn’t really want to work at a...

The Village of Hinckley needed to upgrade its rotating biological contactor plant to activated sludge to meet a consent decree. Looking to minimize impact...

Farmers, the Oneida Nation and many other partners have joined NEW Water in a project to help NEW Water in Green Bay meet...

Flow control in water treatment plants is an exact science. That’s why accurate instrumentation is a requirement. The Intuition-9 Series flow controller from Walchem, Iwaki...

We all have them in our lives: people who annoy us, antagonize us, push our buttons. In daily life we can often...

Efficient clarification is an essential component of drinking water treatment. Many water plants have existing rectangular sedimentation basins in need of refurbishing;...

The thousands of “forever chemicals” known collectively as PFAS are gaining attention as scientists study their prevalence in the environment and their...

People/Awards Bob Protivansky, operator at the Rutland Department of Public Works Sewage Plant, received the New England Water Environment Association’s 2021 Operator of the...

WASTEWATER By Rick Lallish When operating a belt filter press, alignment is critical for proper operation and safety. What system normally accomplishes this operation? A....

Centrisys secures maintenance contract, announces new COO Centrisys announced it has secured a contract with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to...

Endress+Hauser Proline Prosonic Flow W 400 flowmeterThe Prosonic Flow W 400 flowmeter brings the modern technology of Endress+Hauser’s Proline device series to clamp-on...

Hydrogen sulfide is toxic, combustible and can be very corrosive. Even at concentrations below the toxic level of 300 ppm, it can...

Clean-water plant operators have long resigned themselves to the laborious and dangerous process of manually cleaning algae, grease and other material from...

A North Carolina clean-water plant was having difficulty with a rectangular primary clarifier. The scraper flight boards and scum collector boards had gone out...

A small city in the high desert of central Oregon takes advantage of an unusual geological feature to make its water supply more...

There was much to be done when ESG Operations took over the water plant in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After six years and many...

Michael Sedon has seen a great deal in 34 years with Cranberry Township in western Pennsylvania. Perhaps most important of all, he has seen...