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Study Guide Answer Key
Here are the answers to the Oct. 19, 2021 edition of TPO's Exam Study Guide:
Which classification of anaerobic digester is the most efficient at...
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Exam Study Guide: Anaerobic Digester Classifications and Water Hardness Calculations
Welcome back to TPO magazine's Exam Study Guide Series, which offers a pair of water/wastewater study questions with in-depth explanations of the answers. Last time, we...
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Product Focus - November 2021
Aeration Equipment
Brown Bear Series R31
Brown Bear R31 series paddle aerator attachments for sludge drying and aeration of compost windrows attach to high-flow...
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Product Spotlight - Water: November 2021
Not having the right tool for the job can be a major detriment. Level transmitters can sometimes be too large for the...
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Product Spotlights - Wastewater: November 2021
Water treatment is technology-driven and heavily regulated. But that doesn’t mean every part needs to be complicated or overly costly.
For wastewater plants...
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Product News - November 2021
Patterson Davit Cranes
Give your operations a lift with Patterson Davit Cranes, available in ½-ton and 1-ton capacities. The low maintenance, easy-to-assemble design...
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Industry News - November 2021
SUEZ introduces new PFAS testing in Texas
SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions announced the expansion of its PFAS service offerings in Tomball, Texas....
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There's a Lesson in the Raw Emotions That Emerge in Diversity Group Sessions
“Why are they so angry?”
That was my first thought while taking part in a two-day corporate diversity workshop at the electric utility where...
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Alfa Laval Press Gives Operators More Control of Dewatering and Enables Greater Throughput
Effective dewatering is important to biosolids management. Drier cake reduces volume and helps cut the cost of hauling to a land application site...
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Reuse Will Become the Default Option for Clean-Water Utilities in the Sunshine State
Last August, national news reported a historic low water level in Lake Mead, the source of water for much of the Southwest.
As...
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Does Your Facility Face problems with Filaments and Foam? This Plant Tested a Solution
The aeration basins at West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle experienced periodic foaming caused by nocardiaform filamentous bacteria.
Although the foaming problem did...
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Here's One Way to Give Visual Appeal to a Clean-Water Plant
A waterfall near the entrance to the Easton (Pennsylvania) Wastewater Treatment Plant is the first thing people see when passing the plant on...
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A Sensitive Nose Becomes a Key Technology for Sniffing Out Water Leaks
Officials at Central Arkansas Water decided in 2019 to get serious about leak detection. So they bought a dog.
“Dogs can identify lots...
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Rhode Island Teacher Transitions Into Long-Term Clean Water Career
An economic downturn gave Paul Desrosiers his start in wastewater. At the time, a few decades ago, he thought his detour away from teaching...
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The Rome Water Utility's Shift to Public Ownership Came With an Initiative to Boost Quality and Efficiency
In 2006 Chad Ziegler inherited a small water utility that had just changed from private to public ownership – and one with...
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Andrew Wendell's Meticulous Nature Helped Him Win a 2020 Laboratory Analyst Excellence Award
Andrew Wendell loves to keep track of data. That includes data about his own laboratory.
Wendell is the senior chemist and quality assurance/quality...
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Water Wonders Videos Give Lynchburg Utility Customers Valuable and Durable Insights
The Lynchburg water utility was all set for two weeks of jam-packed field trips celebrating Earth Day and Arbor Day in 2020...




















