Instrumentation and Monitoring

In February 2014, the City of Columbia, South Carolina received bids from three suppliers for the delivery of magnesium hydroxide to the...

Early next year, an Australian water utility will be deploying a new leak detection tool — Kep. That’s the name of an...

There are various ways to produce Class A biosolids. Mark Bowman wants to prove to the Environmental Protection Agency that his preferred...

Brandon Pechin has never shied away from a challenge.For years, he ran his own property maintenance business. He later helped the city...

Kingsport is a city of hills and ridges. Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee, it is also a place where...

Not every clean-water plant operator can get paid for purposely upsetting the process or causing an equipment malfunction.Rick Lallish can — and...

Entry 226491 Five water utilities in the Great Lakes watershed are engaged in a contest to see how well they can change their...

The Yadkin River produced wide and rapid turbidity swings that regularly challenged the city of King Water Treatment Plant operators. Turbidity on...

Innovation drives forward steadily in the water and wastewater sectors. Now and then, it’s worth stopping to take a high-level view and...

Equipment failure at a water treatment plant often leads to big costs, not to mention stress on the operations staff.Nidec Motor’s FORECYTE...

In recent years, TOC has steadily gained in importance in both wastewater and drinking water analysis. In relationship to COD, TOC provides...

Odors occur when wastewater pH allows hydrogen sulfide to evolve from liquid phase hydrosulfide. Thioguard technical-grade magnesium hydroxide prevents the formation and...

Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD) is the third largest wastewater treatment system west of the Mississippi River. OCSD serves 2.2 million people...

The launch of the world’s first ready-to-use reagent packages for photometric analysis in the 1960s had a substantial effect on environmental analysis....

Because of the high solubility of both caustic soda and lime, pH often becomes biologically prohibitive before ideal alkalinity levels and process...

The iron dynamics facility of Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) has an 800 gpm cooling water loop that makes direct contact with flue...

Drinking water treatment plants face the ongoing challenge of optimizing the efficiency of their processes to adapt to new water quality regulations....