Nearly three-fourths of the 400 acres that contain the Las Gallinas (California) Valley Sanitary District’s secondary wastewater treatment plant provide habitat for...
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Biological Hydrolysis Brings a Cost-Effective Biosolids Processing Technology to the U.S.
Higher-quality biosolids that meet U.S. EPA Class A criteria can be reused nearly without limitations as a fertilizer to promote productive soils...
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St. Bernard Parish Implements a New and More Efficient System for Flushing Water Mains
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused devastation to St. Bernard Parish, southeast of New Orleans, and cut its population from 67,000 to 45,000....
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A Florida County Finds New Ways to Put Reclaimed Water to Work
Pasco County, Florida, is putting reclaimed water to use in a new way that makes the regional drinking water supply more sustainable...
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An Innovative Training Method Helps an Environmental Engineer Appreciate the Role of Operators
As Jordan Damerel cranked the hand wheel of the heavy gate on the bar screen so his operations teammates could maintain it,...
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A Pennsylvania Authority Finds a Clean, Neat, Efficient Solution for Moving Beyond Class B Biosolids
For decades, the City of Lebanon Authority in Pennsylvania applied Class B biosolids to cropland in liquid or cake form. But in...
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Industrial Flows Are a Daily Challenge That the Norfolk Plant Team Meets Consistently
The Nebraska city of Norfolk is home to 24,000 people, but the Water Pollution Control Plant treats a BOD loading typical of...
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What's to Be Done About PFAS in Wastewater and Biosolids? Here Are Two Perspectives on the Issue.
Yes. No. Maybe. Depends on the circumstances. Requires more research.
Like so many questions about contaminants in the environment, the issue of perfluorooctane...
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Plug-and-Play Metering Pump Lives Up to the Pressure
Project Manager Nathan Kutil talks about his success with the MD-3 multi-diaphragm metering pump at the Basin Creek Water Treatment Plant.
The ProSeries-M...
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House, Senate Pass Bills to Expand PFAS Monitoring
The emerging concern of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination in our nation's water sources has gained the attention of water and wastewater...
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Exam Study Guide: Settled Sludge; and Ladder Safety
Entry 244261Welcome 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,...
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News Briefs: Suspect Flees After Setting Fire to Water Treatment Facility
Entry 244264Police in Cross County, Arkansas, are investigating a possible arson case, as they claim someone set a fire at a local...
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Accurate and Affordable Chemical Feed Sensor
Measuring chemical feed in municipal industries is critical to water and wastewater treatment. The all-new ProSeries-M MS-6 Chemical Feed Sensor accurately measures...
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Fine Screens Protect Big Investment for North Las Vegas
The City of North Las Vegas’s treatment facility is a membrane bioreactor plant that was brand-new when HUBER’s rotary fine screens were...
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Why Cultivating an Optimization Mindset Is Vital to Treatment Success
When the wastewater treatment plant crew in North Cary, North Carolina, set its sights on the Partnership for Clean Water Director’s Award,...
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Scientists Map Huge Undersea Freshwater Aquifer in Northeast U.S.
In a new survey of the sub-seafloor off the U.S. Northeast coast, scientists have made a surprising discovery: a gigantic aquifer of...
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News Briefs: Worker, Police Officer Hospitalized After WWTP Chemical Spill
Entry 244272A police officer and a wastewater treatment plant operator were decontaminated and hospitalized after a peroxyacetic acid spill at the plant...
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EPA Prepares Public for 2019 Hurricane Season by Focusing on Waste Mitigation
The Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1 and ends Nov. 30. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is calling on the...
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Revisit Your Facility's Grease Waste Process and Turn Fog Into an Asset
You may be flushing a valuable resource down the metaphorical drain when disposing of grease trap waste. Yes, the big bad wolf...



















