A poster contest sponsored by California’s Monte Vista Water District encourages K-12 students to promote water efficiency.
The contest was created in 1990...
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Kids' Posters Carry a Message in a Water District's Outreach Program
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A Zero-Stream-Discharge Treatment Plant Now Produces Pipeline-Quality Methane From Its Biosolids
Dodge City’s South Wastewater Treatment Plant in southwest Kansas was built for zero stream discharge because even back in the 1980s, city...
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A Mississippi System Succeeds With a Quality Team Paying Constant Attention to Detail
Jimmy D. Eckman calls it an operation that almost runs on cruise control.
In reality, the drinking water system in Meridian, Mississippi, succeeds...
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A Kentucky Operator Represents a New Generation in the Water Treatment Leadership
At first glance, Chris Gohman’s career looks pretty typical. He supervises the water plant where he started working, collected the 2019 Drinking...
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From the Lab to the Treatment Process: A Longtime Professional Makes a Successful Transition
Jane Leatherland worked in labs for most of her professional career. But when the chance came to take over operations of the...
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Renewable Revolution: A Michigan City Looks to Leave Fossil Fuels Behind
When the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, committed to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2025, Mike Lunn knew the water utility...
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Landia Offers an Innovative Approach to Mixing Biosolids in Digesters
Operators at the Downers Grove (Illinois) Wastewater Treatment Center worked for four years with the vendor to repair the compressor on the...
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Landscape With a Purpose: Effective Treatment and Botanical Beauty
The City of Silverton, Oregon, was planning a constructed wetland to solve a stream thermal overload problem involving its Schemmel Lane Wastewater...
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Eye on the Sky: Weather Stations Can Help Utilities Be Responsive to Changing Weather Conditions
With the rise of data-driven decision-making, weather monitoring is increasingly important for water and wastewater utilities.
The Internet of Things movement is driving...
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The Cold, Hard Facts About Treating Wastewater at an Antarctic Research Site
There are plenty of opportunities for adventurous treatment plant operators, but none so much as the McMurdo Station treatment plant in Antarctica.
There...
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A Hydro International Technology Efficiently Extracts, Cleans and Dries Grit
Clean-water plants increasingly look for higher removal efficiency in headworks equipment, including grit systems.
The goal generally is cleaner, drier grit combined with...
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When High-Quality Tap Water Is Available, Why Buy It in Bottles?
Right now, out on the oceans, multimillion-dollar floating rigs are pulling crude oil up from beneath the seafloor, from depths of hundreds...
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Exam Study Guide - June 2019
WASTEWATER
By Rick Lallish
What type of pump should never be operated or started against a closed valve?
A. Centrifugal pump
B. Peripheral pump
C. Positive...
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Odor Control and Disinfection
Biohybrid filters alleviate odor concerns with force main upgrade
Problem:
Odor control often is not incorporated into plant design and is considered only after residents...
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Worth Noting - June 2019
People/Awards
The Orange County (California) Sanitation District’s Newhope-Placentia Trunk Sewer Replacement Project was named Wastewater Treatment Project of the Year by the American...
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Mobile Thermal Hydrolysis Assists in Biosolids Processing
The conversion of wastewater effluent into Class A biosolids is serving as a solution for more and more forward-thinking wastewater treatment facilities....
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Precision Regulator Adds Total Control to Pneumatic Drives
Entry 226443Pneumatic drives are often utilized in water treatment facilities to support filtration processes. Often in filter basins, they assist the cleaning...
