People/AwardsThe City of Eustis received a 2013 Domestic Wastewater Plant Operations Excellence Award from the Florida Rural Water Association.Darin Martin of the...
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Editorial
Talkin’ Biosolids
Clean-water operators don’t hesitate to fix a malfunctioning bar screen or repair a clarifier pump. But ask them to talk to a...
Editorial
Making ‘Lemonade’
When presented with a bushel of lemons, the crew at the Goleta Sanitary District knows just what to do. The district, a...
Online Exclusives
NACWA, Major U.S. Cities Support Chesapeake Bay Watershed Approach
The National Association of Clean Water Agencies filed a brief April 21 with the U.S Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit...
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News Briefs: Texas Town Creates Emergency Water Reuse Plan
Although water usage in Wichita Falls, Texas, is down by about half compared to last year, conservation efforts are not enough to...
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Weekly News Briefs: State-Set Phosphorus Limits Worry Treatment Plants
Like many municipalities in Wisconsin, the City of Vesper is concerned about costs associated with Environmental Protection Agency-mandated phosphorus limits, which will...
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News Briefs: Pulse Flow Brings Life Back to Colorado River Delta
Along the Colorado River Delta, years of drought mixed with high water-supply demands have morphed the once-lush ecosystem into bone-dry cracked earth....
Blogs
The Fire Chief Project: What’s Seattle’s Newest Wedding Destination?
It has LEED platinum green building certification. Room for 260 guests. A full catering kitchen. A dance floor and excellent audio-visual equipment....
Editorial
Worth Noting - April 2014
People/AwardsThe town of Blowing Rock, N.C., renamed its water treatment facility the Thomas G. McRary Water Plant in honor of a treatment...
Blogs
The Fire Chief Project: Grow it, show it. Getting recognized for biosolids
As health food retailers decry the use of biosolids to grow produce, and in some cases refuse to sell such produce, the...
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EPA Awards $13 Million to Assist Small Wastewater Systems
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $12.7 million in grants to help small drinking and wastewater systems – those serving fewer...
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Water Infrastructure Named 'Top Concern" in AWWA Report
The state of water and wastewater infrastructure is the top current issue facing water professionals and those they serve, according to the...
Blogs
The Fire Chief Project: How about a plan tour? (That’s not a typo.)
Question: How do you give residents of your community a tour of a clean-water plant you haven’t built yet?Answer: Hold an open...
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News Briefs: Air Force Fuel Spill Headed Toward Municipal Wells
A decades-old fuel spill at the Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, N.M., is slowly creeping toward municipal water sources. Discovered in...
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Weekly News Briefs: Unreported Spill Prompts Mercury Testing
An unreported mercury spill triggered concern over employee health at the East Lansing, Mich., Wastewater Treatment Plant after an anonymous caller tipped...
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Exam Study Guide: Sludge Bulking
When operators are faced with licensing exams, they sometimes struggle with test anxiety because they don’t fully understand how to properly study...
Blogs
The Fire Chief Project: Coming soon to a health food store near you?
First Whole Foods made it a policy not to buy produce grown using biosolids. Now other health food purveyors are falling in...

