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Editorial
At North Port, Nothing Is Wasted. The Clean-Water Plant Even Has a Garden Where Operators Grow Healthy Foods
Look up the word “efficient” and you’ll find it defined as “producing desired results without wasting materials, time or energy.”
That certainly describes...
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Chain & Rake Monster for High-Flow Coarse Screening
The Chain & Rake Monster from JWC Environmental is a highly efficient, continuously raked bar screen for headworks, pump stations and storm...
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Fine Screen Solutions for High Solids Loads
Protecting downstream pump facilities requires operators to think strategically about their needs in order to identify the best solution for their specific...
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Protecting the Process: Pretreatment for Membrane Bioreactors
Toward the end of the 1980s, Professor Kazuo Yamamoto from Tokyo University gave a lecture to a skeptical crowd. His topic? Immersed...
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How WWTP Tours Can Help Operators Get Acquainted With New Processes
The Macon Water Authority (MWA) in Georgia recently completed about $51 million worth of long overdue rehab work on its two wastewater...
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Durango Foils Energy Heist and Lowers Maintenance Costs With Sludge Thickening
Durango, Colorado, is a historic Rocky Mountain town that saw its heyday during the silver mining boom of the late 1800s. Then,...
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Monster Metal Extends the Life of Grinder Cutters
Wastewater grinder cutters wear over time. That’s the nature of a metal cutter that is exposed to constant abrasion and corrosion, but...
Editorial
Here's a Place to Learn About the Benefits of Biogas as an Energy Source for Your Facility
In conversations about clean energy and greenhouse gases, we hear a lot about solar, wind and nuclear, and a lot less about a...
Editorial
A Biosolids Drying Technology Helps Clean-Water Facilities Avoid the Cost of Hauling Water
Shelagh Connelly has some advice for biosolids producers: Stop hauling water.
Connelly is president of RMI, a company in Holderness, New Hampshire, with 25...
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Grit King: Designed for Performance and Built to Last
The Grit King is only matched by the HeadCell in grit separation performance. Using structured flow patterns and extended retention time, the...
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Hydro-Sludge Screen Reduces Maintenance and Improves Performance of Solids Treatment Processes
Processing wastewater solids is a critical part of operating a successful wastewater treatment plant. Digesters, sludge pumps, centrifuges, handling and driers all...
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Watch: Video Offers Tour of Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
As part of the My Wisconsin Backyard series, Milwaukee PBS recently posted a video touring the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.Lake Michigan, along...
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Operators Welcome Change in MBR Pump Technology
WWTPs that treat wastewaster using an MBR, or membrane bioreactor, process often use centrifugal pumps. But this solution is flawed for a...
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HeadCell with Floatable Control Option for Plants with FOG Issues
For many wastewater treatment plants FOG is an ever-present problem. The headworks is typically the first place that this grease hits. Even...
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Getting a Solid Soil Response to Biosolids Application
While scientists know that biosolids application can benefit the soil, they are still learning about the best ways to measure this. In...
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How Do I Get Debris Out of My Sludge?
Even where fine screens are installed in the headworks of wastewater treatment plants, some debris will always end up in the sludge....















