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News Briefs: Treatment Plant Floods After Water Main Breaks
Cleanup is underway at the West Jefferson Treatment Plant in Detroit, where a 16-inch water main break caused flooding inside the facility....
Editorial
An Epic Flood Meant A Long Recovery For The Plant Team In Clarksville, Tennessee
Thirty feet of water and sewage covering the treatment plant grounds and structures. Building roofs lifted off. Clarifier vacuum units afloat and...
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Gold Rush! Could Biosolids Contain Millions in Precious Metals?
In the classic 1969 Western musical, Paint Your Wagon, Ben Rumson, played by Lee Marvin, and Pardner, played by Clint Eastwood, discover...
Editorial
A Partnership Creates A Biosolids Facility That Yields A Quality Product
Just 10 miles from Niagara Falls, a biosolids treatment plant has managed to take waste and turn it — all of it...
Editorial
A Maine Community Builds A Multi-Talented Team & Resumes Control After Years Of Contract Operations
When a contract operator took control OF the City of Biddeford’s clean-water plant, both sides knew the arrangement was temporary.OMI, the operations arm...
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TerraFirma Earth Technologies Expands Operations
TerraFirma Earth Technologies, a Houston-based dewatering firm, is moving its headquarters to a larger office and yard space in Houston to accommodate...
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The Fire Chief Project: Don’t believe it? Smell for yourself.
The Indiana city of Terre Haute plans to expand processing of other communities’ waste activated sludge at its wastewater treatment plant as...
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News Briefs: Mothballed Plant Could Become Wastewater University
A mothballed water treatment plant, once operated by Maine’s Greater Augusta Utility District, could become the site of a unique hands-on water...
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Come PCBs or Ebola, Spartanburg Water Is Ready
“Do the right thing” is more than a platitude for our children. The concept has real, bottom-line consequences, which can carry a...
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News Briefs: Diabetes Drug Discovered Near Lake Michigan Treatment Plants
Researchers with the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have found elevated levels of metformin, a diabetes treatment drug,...
Editorial
Sid Fredrickson's Career In Coeur D'Alene Has Been A Continuous Quest For Excellence
During Sid Fredrickson’s first year as Coeur d’Alene wastewater superintendent, part of the answer to a challenging phosphorus limit was a process...
Editorial
The Yellow Springs Team Finds The Funds And Makes The Improvements To Meet Strict Phosphorus Limits
When Joe Bates became superintendent of the Yellow Springs (Ohio) Water Reclamation Facility eight years ago, he knew he had a lot of...
Editorial
A Kentucky Plant Achieves An Award-Winning Run Without A Lost-Time Accident
Operators at the West Side Wastewater Treatment Plant have always put safety first, from the time the plant started up in 1996....
Editorial
Biosolids Management And Headworks
Vertical screening system installed in challenging headworksProblem: Four years ago the Mendocino (Calif.) City Community Services District needed to make a change at...
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A State Biosolids Council Finds Farmers Are The Most Effective Sources Of Information For The Public
Everyone has played the game, “Telephone,” where players pass a message from person to person and see how it’s distorted by the...
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News Briefs: Bill Gates Demonstrates Value of Water Reuse
In a new video posted to his blog, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates brings awareness to water reuse, clean drinking water...















