Treatment

Wastewater treatment in the City of Mankato, Minn., means more than sending clean effluent back into the local watercourse. It means treating...

In 2001, the Littleton/Englewood Wastewater Treatment Plant began design of its Phase 2 expansion from 36 mgd to 50 mgd. At the...

It is the summer of 2008. From a small boat, a SCUBA diver descends 20 feet to the bottom of Lake Ontario,...

The Madison (Ala.) Wastewater Treatment Plant went through a major upgrade just six years after the original activated sludge plant was built....

In barely 10 years, the Tarpon Springs (Fla.) Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility has gone from “the little plant that couldn’t” to “...

The Warwick (R.I.) Sewer Authority is addressing a long-standing problem with an innovative solution. The agency has teamed up with Sherman Elementary...

In April 2005, the Fairplay (Colo.) Sanitation District’s permit limit for effluent ammonia dropped from 25 mg/l to 10 mg/l. The three-cell,...

Backman Appointed Managing Director for Vacon Canada Douglas K. Backman has joined Vacon Inc. as managing director for Vacon Canada. Backman, fluent in...

The JetMix hydraulic mixing system from Siemens Water Technologies Corp. is designed to agitate slurries in digesters and sludge storage tanks as...

Almost everything about the Stewartstown Borough Wastewater Treatment Plant speaks to its diminutive size. Though located on 20+ acres, the plant itself...

It might not have been the parting of the Red Sea, but the early-morning chlorine contact chamber diversion at the Middle Oconee...

George Calloway and Joe Derbyshire came from different backgrounds: Calloway from a machine shop business he owned and operated, and Derbyshire from...

Energy efficiency has become a big issue in wastewater treatment. There are two basic ways to deal with energy in a treatment...

Cliff Morris is like a man with a new car. As chief operator of the three-year-old East Water Reclamation Facility in Bonita...

Solving costly clogging issues Problem: Household items clogged the pump impellers in the Inkster (Mich.) lift station every 28 hours and, in some...

In 1994, the Bonnybrook Wastewater Treatment Plant in Calgary, Alta., completed the first phase of an upgrade to biological nutrient removal (BNR)...

Accutech Wireless Doubles Manufacturing Capacity Control Microsystems, a Schneider Electric company, has expanded the manufacturing capacity of its Accutech wireless instrumentation facility....