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The Williston (North Dakota) Water Resource Recovery Facility was dedicated to Monte Meiers, a longtime city employee and former director of public...
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Worth Noting - September 2018
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Channel mixing on a large scale
The treatment of raw water entering a water treatment plant through a rectangular channel can seem like a daunting task. That is...
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Instrument makes turbidity measurement clear
An accurate turbidity measurement often provides nearly immediate results on whether potable or wastewater treatment is effective. The more accurate the turbidimeter...
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Students Turn Water Education Messages Into Storybooks for Kids
Water droplets Gobi and Aguat live in a cloud as best friends. They fall as rain and get separated, Gobi happily living...
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Lebanon Breaks New Ground in Self-Sufficiency With a Tennessee Gasification Initiative
It started with a landfill running out of space and on borrowed time. It ended with an energy plant that each year...
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Fort Wayne Takes Beneficial Use to Entirely New Levels
Earth Day began on April 22, 1970. The biosolids beneficial use program in Fort Wayne, Indiana, goes back almost that far.
The city’s...
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Team Members in Butte-Silver Bow Were Active in Plant Design and Startup and Now Spearhead Quality Operations
If you’re building a brand-new surface water treatment plant, facing new requirements for Cryptosporidium and disinfection byproducts, and importing technology that’s never...
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North Platte Operators Met the Challenge of Getting a Temperamental New Facility on Track
Most lifelong residents of North Platte, Nebraska, don’t know where the wastewater treatment plant is. That’s exactly how Doug Meyer, superintendent, wants...
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A New York District Drives Down Power Consumption While Pushing up On-Site Power Production
Christopher Murphy is trying to put wastewater to work. As superintendent of the Great Neck (New York) Water Pollution Control District, he...
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A Small Utility District Uses a Special Chopper Pump to Bust Clogs From Sludge and FOG
Amid the pastoral landscape of the Blue Lake Estates Community, a group of cautiously optimistic operators, officials, and suppliers gathered around the...
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Restoration Project Adds Art to Popular Public Trail
The water pollution control plant in Arlington, Virginia, is less than half a mile from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and across...
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Warm Welcome
Visitors to Alexandria (Virginia) Renew Enterprises don’t have to wait long to learn about the organization that keeps area waterways clean.
Essential messages...
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Better Through Chemistry
Since 1995, the Florida city of Vero Beach used Jones and Attwood twin rotary drum thickeners (Ovivo USA) and two aerobic digesters...
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Here's a Way to Deal With Rags and Wipes Without Grinding or Chopping
Among the problems created by the proliferation of wipes is the unpleasant, time-consuming and costly job of periodically pulling rags from pumps.
Many...
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Here's a Chance to Share Your Plant Entrance Sign With Your Peers
Ever since my son was little, we’ve had fun pointing out business signs with letters missing. A big-box store for months advertised...
