Dewatering and Biosolids

When the City of North Chicago consolidated the water, street and engineering divisions into a single public works department in 2011, the...

On Feb. 15, plant operators at the Sugar Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Charlotte, N.C., detected a strange odor in the wastewater,...

Electromechanical diaphragm pumps deliver consistent flowProblemThe City of Nampa (population 80,000) is the largest and fastest growing city in Canyon County, Idaho. The...

Archimedes/Screw PumpsLow-head screw pumpScrew pumps from Lakeside Equipment Corporation offer built-in variable capacity that automatically adjusts the pumping rate and power consumption...

Stowe is a small Vermont town with A BIG name: It’s world renowned as a ski resort that has grown to be...

A common side effect of wastewater treatment processes is the unpleasant odor that can linger near the plant, annoying neighbors, who then...

Thanks to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, an expensive, time-consuming permit process just got a little simpler, which is good news...

Conducting studies of biosolids dewatering or drying techniques at your clean-water treatment plant could pay huge short- and long-term dividends. Here we...

The THK thickening centrifuge from Centrisys is designed to thicken waste-activated sludge with little or no polymer. The system produces up to...

Mobile dewatering truck saves on handling, disposal costsProblem: Antigonish County in Nova Scotia faced escalating costs for handling septage and wastewater treatment plant...

Belt Filter/Rotary PressesBelt Filter PressThe 1.7-meter trailer-mounted belt filter press from Bright Technologies includes a control room with insulated FRP walls, air...

Without chemicals and without filtration, the 12 mgd design/8 mgd average wastewater treatment plant in Missoula, Mont., reliably reduces effluent phosphorus to...

A challenge issued by the Snohomish County (Wash.) Public Utility District (PUD) No. 1 to reduce energy consumption by 10 percent in...

Traveling the United States as a technical field service specialist for a wastewater equipment company was a great life for John Leonhard...

Facing new U.S. EPA air-quality standards thatwould require major upgrades at the city’s biosolids incinerator, leaders in Little Falls, N.Y., in 2012...

In an unfortunate turn of events for the clean-water industry, the organic foods retailer Whole Foods Market announced it will no longer...

Does the public value its waste and ultimately wastewater? Most people would probably answer that question with a resounding, “no.” But public...