Treatment

There’s an old saying: Make hay while the sun shines. But the West Jackson County Land Treatment Facility, in Ocean Springs, Miss.,...

In the Battle of Zinc, the Appomattox Water Reclamation Facility is winning. In fact, it has already won. Using lime and soda...

When the Newtown (Conn.) Wastewater Treatment Plant had trouble meeting its nitrogen limit, the plant manager, operator and mechanic worked as a...

Simple package improves dewatering Problem An upgrade to the Groton (N.Y.) Wastewater Treatment Plant from 0.35 to 0.5 mgd included sequencing batch reactors followed...

Operators at the Grace Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Longview, Texas, expect significant savings from an energy efficiency project that includes replacement...

The Mission Beach Wastewater Treatment Plant in Marysville, Wash., spent more than $100,000 per year transporting biosolids every few days to the...

Godwin Pumps Changes Name to Xylem Dewatering Solutions Godwin Pumps of America Inc. changed its name to Xylem Dewatering Solutions Inc., effective Jan....

The BIO-Cel MeurerMBR flat-sheet membrane bioreactor with 0.04-micron pores from Meurer Research provides chemical-free filtration and clean discharge in a small footprint....

When the requirement for secondary treatment went into effect in 1992, primary treatment plants in Anacortes, Wash., could not meet the permit limits. Just...

When the 3.85 mgd Coatesville (Pa.) Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant needed to increase capacity and meet more stringent permit limits, owner Pennsylvania...

It’s not easy operating a wastewater treatmentplant when you can’t smell it or hear it, and most of it is out of...

The City of Celina, Ohio, supplies drinking water to 11,647 residents of the city and the East Jefferson District. Its source water,...

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

The Red River is best known for periodic floods that afflict North Dakota, most notably around Grand Forks. Much farther south, in...

From placing first in the national Top Ops competition four times since 2006, to implementing a water recovery program, the Palm Coast...

Producing a reliable supply of clean, safe water was not enough for the City of Rockville (Md.) Water Treatment Plant. The city...

Formulation consumes organic solids Problem Biosolids buildup in the anaerobic lagoons at the Mount Olive (N.C.) Wastewater Treatment Plant was lowering storage capacity. Solution Operators removed...