September 2014 Issue of TPO

A Washington town turns to biosolids composting and creates a highly popular, revenue-producing product with strong demand from commercial and residential users.

People/Awards; Education; Events

An off-the-shelf appliance gives smaller water and wastewater utilities a cost-effective way to monitor pumping stations.

The critical nature of water and wastewater facilities demands more stringent protection of control systems to prevent malicious damage from hackers.

NACWA advocates control of nonpoint pollution sources as a key to reducing nutrient loadings to the nation’s waters.

Staff members with the Bangor Water District pool ideas and develop ways to reduce electricity usage while also generating on-site power.

First-of-a-kind technologies enable creation of a “complete removal” tertiary treatment system from a lagoon facility in central California.

A North Carolina plant team’s innovations include simultaneous nitrification-denitrification to meet upcoming phosphorus and nitrogen removal mandates.

Architecture, landscaping and odor and noise controls make a Texas treatment plant an unobtrusive part of a residential area.

In drought-ravaged northern California, Santa Rosa Water staff members take to the streets to spread the word about the need for water conservation.

The Stevens Point treatment plant lives up to its community’s environmental ethic while helping to create a climate friendly to business expansion and economic strength.

A group of Alabama communities create a water district and deploy an innovative technology to produce abundant, high-quality water for today’s and future needs.

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A former Michigan treatment plant superintendent and his wife paddle the entire Mississippi to raise funds for Water for People.

A long-time operator argues that the secret to success in exams for water and wastewater licensing boils down to a single word. It starts with P.