Editorial Articles

Two circular primary clarifiers at the Athens (Ohio) Wastewater Treatment Plant get a lot more attention since a mural was painted on...

Entry 225149It’s often asked: Why do people in the wastewater professions often suffer from a lack of respect among the public? Part of...

The days are fast vanishing when treatment plant operators monitor pumps, motors and other equipment by making rounds, doing spot checks and...

Take a minute and try an experiment. Do an internet search under “clean water plant.” Then do a search under “wastewater treatment...

WASTEWATER By Rick Lallish In pump hydraulics, what condition is a measurement of the physical vertical distance between the surfaces of two fluids, but...

Peristaltic metering assists with arsenic removal in wells Problem: The drinking water sources in the town of Mammoth Lakes in northeast California consist of nine...

Today’s water utilities often rely on nonintegrated programmable logic controllers with limited functionality to automate smaller, stand-alone equipment or processes. Unfortunately, these...

Quantifying, specifying and targeting the organisms found in water and wastewater systems is a major component in a utility’s effort to release...

Patterson Mfg. davit cranes New davit cranes are available from corrosive environment and safety expert, Patterson Mfg. Give your operations a lift with...

SEEPEX launches Fast Ship Pump Program SEEPEX is now offering a Fast Ship Pump Program to its customers who require expedited delivery of...

People/Awards The Township of Edison, New Jersey, hired Robert Smith as director of its Water and Sewer Utilities Department. The Town of Bridgton, Maine,...

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The city of Fayetteville, Arkansas, jumped on the solar energy bandwagon in a big way in 2019. In September, the city in northwestern...

From May through October, trickling filter flies (Psychoda alternata) and odors plagued the Cullman (Alabama) Wastewater Treatment Plant and residents of a...

School teachers are important carriers of messages about clean water, and it’s important that they be equipped to deliver those messages effectively. To...

When the City of Prattville, Alabama, decided to upgrade its Pine Creek Clean Water Facility, it spared no effort. While the city had...

When Rhonda Harris was 6 years old, she knew what she wanted to do: “I was going to be a civil engineer....

For Garon Goularte, frequent job changes have been a good thing. In moving from one California facility to the next and gradually stepping...

Raed Armouti grew up understanding water in a way few people do. Although he didn’t know it as a boy, water would form...