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Going Digital Breaks Down Data Silos and Saves Time for California Wastewater Lab
Problem: The City of San Luis Obispo wastewater treatment laboratory conducts over a dozen daily tests and was using paper bench sheets...
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Bug of the Month: Bacteria With a Competitive Advantage for EBPR
As phosphorus limits are becoming increasingly stringent in biological wastewater treatment processes, the number of treatment plants that are striving to achieve...
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How Dead Bacteria Aid Flocculation and Overall Treatment
Because bacteria are responsible for the vast majority of treatment, the general success or failure of systems depends on maintaining adequate populations...
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BIOCOS Treatment Fits This Small Community’s Needs
In today’s economic and social climate, federal and state agencies are tightening wastewater discharge permits and pushing clean-water facilities to adopt more...
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A Net-Zero Trifecta: Power, Effluent, Biosolids
Significant progress toward net-zero power consumption with solar energy only made the staff at the Town of Windsor Water Reclamation Facility in...
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Love of Science Drives a Choice of Career
Derek Gormon never planned for a career in the clean-water industry. Still, he’s not surprised to find himself as the manager of...
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Bug of the Month: Learn About Type 1701 Filaments and Sludge Bulking
Type 1701 filaments have highly similar morphology to Sphaerotilus filaments, and these two morphotypes could arguably be combined if the diameter value...
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Bug of the Month: Filament Type 0961 and Sudden Bulking Events
Type 0961 filaments are readily distinguishable at 1,000x oil immersion phase contrast as a light or transparent filament with rectangular cell shape,...
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UBC Engineers Develop Groundbreaking PFAS Removal Technology
Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new water treatment that removes PFAS from drinking water safely, efficiently and...
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Bug of the Month: Tubifex Worms Are a Clogging Culprit
Tubifex worms are unique in that they are visible by the human eye as red or pink tinted worms and sometimes can...
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Here's Some Advice on Navigating the Murky Waters of PFAS Measurement
Drinking water professionals are familiar with PFAS, but in many cases these synthetic chemicals have not been on wastewater treatment operators’ radar.
That...
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Bug of the Month: Learn About the Actinomycetes-Mycolata Filament Morphotype
Historically referred to as Nocardia, Gram-positive branched filaments generally ranging from 0.8-1.2 µm in diameter with visible septa (cell walls) are a...
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Bacteria Resistant to 'Last Resort' Antibiotic Found in Los Angeles Wastewater
Bacteria that renders colistin, a “last resort” antibiotic, ineffective are lurking in southern California’s wastewater. While bacteria resistant to colistin have been...
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Bug of the Month: Water Sponges and Wastewater Treatment Plants
Sponges are nonmoving invertebrates that have specialized cells for filtering water for food. Freshwater sponges filter out food such as bioplankton and...
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Bug of the Month: Water Mites Are Often a Sign of a Healthy WWTP
Water mites are occasionally found in biological wastewater treatment processes with higher sludge retention time values (such as fixed-film systems) and represent...
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Bug of the Month: Thiopedia's Impact on Odors and Pigmentation
The microorganism morphotype description for this month’s feature has been recognized as the Thiopedia morphotype by Dr. Michael Richard and Dr. David...
















