General Wastewater Equipment

The clean-water profession has a family feel to John LaRocca,and not just because his father introduced him to it. The profession feels...

A Massachusetts plant acts voluntarily to improve handling of CSOs while making other major changes to enhance treatment performanceLinks mentioned in the...

Reliable. Resourceful. Responsible. Those are good words to describe the people of South Dakota, a frontier state with the fifth lowest population...

Growing grapes and developing a vineyard might not be the first thing wastewater operators think of doing to upgrade the landscape of...

Neptune Quieter Operating Mixers Quieter operating mixers from Neptune Mixer Co. feature steel helical gears, high-quality bearings and high-grade lubricant. The level 9...

“I wish they could spend a day walking in my shoes.” How many wastewater treatment operators have entertained that thought in connection with...

Creativity played a big part in the plan to upgrade the landscape and beautify the surroundings of the wastewater treatment plant in...

Davie County Public Utilities in Mocksville, N.C., had 11,000 water meters divided into 30 rural reading routes spread across 400 square miles....

At Mount Vernon, Ind., the raw water intake pipe was held together with (literally) bubble gum and duct tape, the filtration backwash...

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The Charles River Pollution Control District (CRPCD) in Medway, Mass., identified a need for improved efficiency, then found a way to fill...

Another set of bad effluent fecal coliform results. This makes four times since the new chlorine system was installed. The plant superintendent...

When the weather heats up, electric utilities face pressure to meet the demand on their systems. Utilities can only make or buy...

Several years ago, managers at the City of Fort Worth’s Village Creek Water Reclamation Facility saw a looming challenge: Many employees were...

In fall 2007, operators at the Marengo (Ill.) Wastewater Treatment Plant were experiencing challenges with the liquid-polymer feed system, a key part...

Perhaps no issue is more important in the clean-water profession than replacing experienced operators who will soon retire. Cities and agencies are...

The handwriting on the wall is clear: Many experienced wastewater operators will retire soon, and there aren’t enough new people coming up...