July 2020 Issue of TPO

An award-winning superintendent shares credit with her team for a Wisconsin clean-water plant’s consistent quality performance.

Skilled operators and quality products make an unbeatable combination in water and wastewater treatment plants.See how these partnerships ensure success in this special section.

Licensing exams can be challenging. Our Exam Study Guide helps you prepare by presenting questions similar to those on an actual exam. You can find many more sample questions on the TPO website at www.tpomag.com/study.

Product standards? Education? Grinding? What will solve the wipes problem? Clean-water agencies and wipes industry groups have differing perspectives.

The Great Lakes Water Authority’s award-winning apprenticeship programs are helping to fill the pipeline with well-qualified team members.

A fully automated receiving station combines complete pretreatment and processing functions with transaction recording for tracking and invoicing.

A Kansas community honors its Wizard of Oz connections with a newly finished water tower that portrays the wizard’s balloon.

A ballasted flocculation system enabled the Santan Vista Water Treatment Plant to double capacity at low cost.

A Colorado plant reaps 38% electricity savings and rapid payback with a project combining two separate blower systems into one all-purpose package.

Hatfield award-winner Ed Hayner brings the same selfless attitude to his plant manager role as he does to volunteer work for the local food pantry.

The Hobbs Wastewater Reclamation Facility in southeast New Mexico reclaims all its influent and beneficially uses its entire biosolids stream.

A California water district sweeps up four public relations awards for its community outreach and education initiatives.