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Editorial A Love of Science Led to a Rewarding Career for Laboratory Specialist Suzanne Potts

Studying to be a dentist didn’t light a fire of enthusiasm for Suzanne Potts, but it did ignite her love of chemistry...

January 17, 2018

Editorial Building a New Life for Old Pumps

Big pumps at older water and wastewater treatment plants often show their age by way of lost efficiency and unreliability. Pumps perhaps...

October 19, 2017

An Aeration Tank With New Diffusers See Nice Mixing Pattern

Editorial Air on Autopilot: How a Major California Plant Fixed Inefficient Aeration

Aeration was inefficient and dissolved oxygen control time-consuming at a major wastewater treatment plant in the Coachella Valley Water District.The aeration system...

August 16, 2017

Editorial Greener Planet Systems Offers New Aeration Solution for Wastewater Basins and Aerobic Digesters

Aeration is the most energy-intensive and costly process in wastewater treatment plants. Engineers and operators constantly look for ways to make it...

August 16, 2017

Editorial WWTP Energy Audit Leads to Money-Saving Changes

Energy conservation is part of the planning process for the city of Stratford, Ontario. With the wastewater treatment plant consuming more than...

February 15, 2017

Videos Ohio Treatment Plant Keeps Compliance Up, Costs Down

Life got a lot easier in 2011 for Jeff Smith, chief operator of the Village of Ohio City Wastewater Treatment Plant. That’s when the...

November 17, 2016

Editorial This Treatment Plant's Process Upgrade is Turning Heads

Changes come slowly in the wastewater treatment industry. That’s why a recent process improvement at a Florida plant is gaining attention.An air-infusion...

November 10, 2016

Online Exclusives Now That's a Beer! Brewing Contest Drums Up Support for Water Reuse

Dan Shirah saw the looks and sensed the trepidation.Sure, Shirah is an experienced homebrewer, but some folks wondered how his latest creation...

September 26, 2016

Editorial New Hampshire Plant Doubles Up Maintenance and Wins an Award

It might be easy to miss the Penacook Wastewater Treatment Plant. It sits behind a farm, partially hidden in the Penacook Village...

August 18, 2016

Editorial Effluent Benefits Wildlife at Barataria-Terrebone Estuary

The Thibodaux Wastewater Treatment Plant is an aerated lagoon system with mechanical bar screens, high-flow trickling filters, and primary and final clarifiers.The...

August 17, 2016

Editorial Seminole Tribe Brings Excellence to Water and Wastewater Treatment

Anyone who has cruised aboard a ship homeported in Port Everglades has come within about 10 miles of the Seminole Tribe of...

March 16, 2016

Editorial How to Use Solar Energy to Offset Upgrade Costs

When the Town of Hurlock, Maryland, upgraded its wastewater treatment plant to meet new effluent limits, the project cost $7.5 million and...

March 16, 2016

Editorial ZeeLung Provides Energy Efficient Fine-Bubble Aeration

As clean-water plants strive to become resource recovery facilities, energy neutrality is a key goal. There are two components to get there:...

March 16, 2016

Editorial How Fine-Tuning Aeration Can Decrease Your Electric Bill

The Fredericksburg (Iowa) Wastewater Treatment Plant has faced challenges from change in its industrial flow and from upgrades to aging equipment.A key...

November 16, 2015

Editorial Revitalizing Old Aeration Blowers With VFDs

Variable-frequency drives (VFDs) have been used for decades to control multistage centrifugal blowers. The increasingly popular turbo blowers also use VFDs for...

September 17, 2015