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People/Awards Dawn McGrath, a Canim Lake Band member, received a Women in Technology Award from Applied Science Technologists & Technicians of British Columbia....

Jim Baird has a passion for operator education. As engineering and operations manager for the Roseburg (Oregon) Urban Sanitary Authority, he manages the...

Winning an award for sustainability was not top of mind when Seneca (South Carolina) officials began to redesign their water treatment facility. Ultimately,...

The Lakehaven Water and Sewer District in Washington is collaborating with the Federal Way Public Schools to introduce the wastewater industry to...

The regenerative emissions treatment system at the Buckman Regional Residuals Biosolids Treatment Facility suffered from frequent clogging of the ceramic block media. The...

The Clark Township Wastewater Treatment Plant has nearly 1,000 users in Michigan on the north shore of Lake Huron. With an average...

It’s no secret that waves of operators are retiring and that water and wastewater utilities need replacements. It’s also no secret that...

The cost of equipment monitoring technology is coming down; the technologies themselves are improving. In this environment, plant operations and maintenance people...

It seems there’s an official month, or week, or day for almost everything. In April alone there’s Golden Rule Week, National Public...

WASTEWATER Effluent quality improves in lagoon systems that are operated in which configuration? A. Parallel arrangement B. Series arrangement C. Anaerobic only D. Aerobic only Answer: B. Lagoons operated in series tend...

Double disc pumps solve problems at treatment plant Problem: In April 2010, the staff in Moline, Illinois, needed to replace a piston (plunger) pump...

Don’t blink. You might miss Dustin C. Coles, lead operator at the North Topeka (Kansas) Wastewater Treatment Plant. In his 21-year career handling...

No one can argue that purifying wastewater isn’t an exact science. It requires the precision metering of fluids, which typically pose unique...

Some say that predictability is boring. However, in the water industry, operators are constantly on the search for any tool that can...

A study published recently in the journal Nature Geoscience by National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded researchers offers new insights into the wetlands’ ability to reduce...

Wastewater effluent is the final product of previous treatment processes, and effluent that meets certain quality standards can be discharged into bodies...

In order to avoid discharging effluent to the Gallatin River, the well-known ski town of Big Sky, Montana, is considering a proposal...