July 2016 Issue of TPO

A highly educated staff and two on-site laboratories help keep quality water flowing at the Barren River Lake Water Treatment Plant.

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Operator Jerry Nicholson applies long experience, skills and wisdom to job; winning praise, award and respect at Boulder’s Betasso Water Treatment Plant.

Bosque Farms operators win Wastewater Treatment System of the Year award with specialized skills, excellent communication and a strong work ethic.

Rick Cantu’s insistence on getting to the bottom of treatment issues served his community well and saved his treatment facility millions of dollars.

A contest for fourth-graders in northern Arizona encourages kids to express their idea of a water ethic in artwork and essays.

A Wisconsin plant goes greener with biological phosphorus removal, higher-efficiency equipment, biogas-to-energy and other upgrades.

Effective bearing seals are important to long and trouble-free life in a wide range of rotating equipment in water and wastewater treatment plants.

A high-rate wet weather treatment system enables an Ohio utility to conquer CSOs and meet its compliance deadline.

A California water district undertakes a stream improvement project to enable unimpeded annual spawning migrations for steelhead trout.

Engineer and WERF Research Council member John Willis finds that often the most economical biogas and biosolids solutions are also the most sustainable.

A pipe crawler video inspection system from Deep Trekker provides substantial versatility in a package that can be operated by a single technician.

How was the lead contamination of tap water allowed to happen? And as an operator, what would you have done if forced to deal with a similar situation?

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