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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...

Clean-water agencies charged with treating heavy flows from storm events face large capital investments for processes they may use only a few...

When Joe Bates became superintendent of the Yellow Springs (Ohio) Water Reclamation Facility eight years ago, he knew he had a lot of...

Operators at the West Side Wastewater Treatment Plant have always put safety first, from the time the plant started up in 1996....

Vertical screening system installed in challenging headworksProblem: Four years ago the Mendocino (Calif.) City Community Services District needed to make a change at...

The Series 9000 preformed spray scrubber from Bionomic Industries is designed to simultaneously remove odor compounds and particulate from dryers, digesters and...

The James B. Messerly Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP) had a history of difficulty with grit removal.The plant, in Augusta, Ga., (population...

Tom Ciolfi is proud of the $38 million upgrade completed last July at the Bucklin Point Wastewater Treatment Facility. He’s proud of...

Editor's Note: Innovation was a big theme at WEFTEC 2014. We'll be featuring a few of the new and better technologies found...

Editor's Note: Innovation was a big theme at WEFTEC 2014. We'll be featuring a few of the new and better technologies found...

Bar screen effectively prevents pumps from cloggingProblem: New Jersey’s Lower Township Municipal Utilities Authority operates a 5 mgd wastewater treatment plant. Influent...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Since this article was written, Clinton’s water quality superintendent Dan Riney has retired from that community and has taken a...

A lead operator at the Fox River Water Reclamation District in Elgin, Ill., was taken into custody Oct. 1 after police received...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Jeremy Cramer, who was superintendent of the Stevens Point Wastewater Treatment Plant at the time this article was researched and...

Scrapers clean solids from intake systemProblem Backwash strainers at a wastewater treatment plant in Toronto, were consistently clogging with oversized solids that made...

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...

In the western Oregon cities of Springfield and Eugene, a successful program provides land-applied biosolids to local farmers, mainly for growing grasses. But...