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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The WWETCO FlexFilter From WesTech Can Combine Tertiary And CSO/SSO Treatment
Clean-water agencies charged with treating heavy flows from storm events face large capital investments for processes they may use only a few...
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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...
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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....
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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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Cyclonic Spray Scrubber Eliminates Odors, Pollutants, Reduces Maintenance
The Series 9000 preformed spray scrubber from Bionomic Industries is designed to simultaneously remove odor compounds and particulate from dryers, digesters and...
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A Stacked Tray Grit System Aids Removal And Improves Clarifier And Digester Function
The James B. Messerly Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP) had a history of difficulty with grit removal.The plant, in Augusta, Ga., (population...
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Asset Management Gets Big Attention At The Newly Upgraded Plant Bucklin Point, R.I.
Tom Ciolfi is proud of the $38 million upgrade completed last July at the Bucklin Point Wastewater Treatment Facility. He’s proud of...
Online Exclusives
WEFTEC 2014 Innovation: WesTech Engineering Offers Multi-Purpose Media Filter
Editor's Note: Innovation was a big theme at WEFTEC 2014. We'll be featuring a few of the new and better technologies found...
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WEFTEC 2014 Innovation: Bongo Series Screens Provide Small Footprint
Editor's Note: Innovation was a big theme at WEFTEC 2014. We'll be featuring a few of the new and better technologies found...
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Treatment And Filtration
Bar screen effectively prevents pumps from cloggingProblem: New Jersey’s Lower Township Municipal Utilities Authority operates a 5 mgd wastewater treatment plant. Influent...
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An Iowa Team Masters A New Plant's Biological Nutrient Removal Process
EDITOR’S NOTE: Since this article was written, Clinton’s water quality superintendent Dan Riney has retired from that community and has taken a...
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News Briefs: Gun Scare at Plant Ends With Operator in Custody
A lead operator at the Fox River Water Reclamation District in Elgin, Ill., was taken into custody Oct. 1 after police received...
Editorial
Right At Home
EDITOR’S NOTE: Jeremy Cramer, who was superintendent of the Stevens Point Wastewater Treatment Plant at the time this article was researched and...
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Headworks and Biosolids Management
Scrapers clean solids from intake systemProblem
Backwash strainers at a wastewater treatment plant in Toronto, were consistently clogging with oversized solids that made...
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Better Than Rehab
The 20-year-old Miner (Mo.) Wastewater Treatment Plant faced a number of technical issues in 2012. The town’s old three-cell 0.302 mgd aerated...
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Green Insurance
In the western Oregon cities of Springfield and Eugene, a successful program provides land-applied biosolids to local farmers, mainly for growing grasses. But...














