Inside the February 2019 Issue of Treatment Plant Operator

Equipment, process and efficiency improvements are a way of life at the award-winning Glasgow (Kentucky) Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The operations team helped design a new treatment plant and continuously optimize its performance in Springfield, Illinois.

Operators at a North Carolina plant adopt new technology and climb a steep learning curve to tackle variable turbidity in source water.

Tiffini Adams helps environmental analytical laboratories serving water reclamation districts maintain consistent technical and scientific results.

More operators share photos of their signs and the history behind them

San Antonio Confluence Conference enables sharing of projects and ideas by young people who are passionate about water.



It’s no secret that the operator workforce is aging. Now’s the time to groom a new generation. Water Environment Federation’s Students and Young Professionals Committee is a great resource.

A Baltimore initiative recruits unemployed and underemployed young people and trains them for water and wastewater careers.

Compact factory-built membrane bioreactor units provide high-quality treatment for small flows in municipal and other applications.

Four women from a South Carolina plant crash the male-dominated party at the 2018 Water Environment Federation Operations Challenge.
Georgia’s Gwinnett County pilot-tests its two-stage ozone-biological filtration process as a way to produce high-quality water for direct potable reuse.

Rain gardens and bioswales at clean-water plants help an Arkansas utility promote sustainability, biodiversity and natural wildlife habitat.

A lime stabilization process helps an Arkansas city meet its goal of producing Class A biosolids to enable the resumption of beneficial use.

The Boulder Water Resource Recovery Facility practices sustainability by using brewery waste for nitrate removal and creating reclaimed natural gas from biogas.