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AWWA Testifies on Disaster Response in Water Sector
Testifying before the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Environment recently, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) highlighted successes in the water sector’s response...
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Replacing Sulfuric Acid with Carbon Dioxide for pH Control
The iron dynamics facility of Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) has an 800 gpm cooling water loop that makes direct contact with flue...
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Industry News: November 2017
REXA’s president and CEO to retire, new leadership announcedREXA’s president and CEO, Sam Lalos, announced his plans to retire at the end...
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Control of Drinking Water Clarifiers
Drinking water treatment plants face the ongoing challenge of optimizing the efficiency of their processes to adapt to new water quality regulations....
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Exam Study Guide: Breakpoint Chlorination Method; and TTHM Removal
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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Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Options for Your Wastewater Treatment Facility
Making your water treatment facility run as efficiently as possible while meeting capacity demands and environmental regulations is a tall order —...
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News Briefs: Reporters Claim Unsafe Washington Treatment Plant Ruined Man's Life
After being exposed for seven years to toxins at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard’s wastewater treatment plant, Tim Combs of Bremerton, Washington,...
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West Virginia Watershed Helps Mold Water Ambassadors
The Carvins Cove Natural Reserve is a small piece of man-made nature in an urban jungle, but its impact is anything but...
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How Ordinary Attention to Detail Wins Awards
As a teenager working at the Marshall Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant, Rick Bailey got a lesson about quality work.“My boss was Harold...
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Experience, Hard Work Are Keys to Success for Superintendent Tony Wood
Twenty-five years ago, Tony Wood’s life made a right-angle turn: He got married and within a month became the chief operator of...
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The Heterotrophic Plate Count Test
Heterotrophs are a group of microorganisms including yeasts, molds and bacteria that use organic carbon as their sole carbon and energy source....
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Success Is About Technology — And the People Who Make It Work
There was supposed to be a three-month window. It didn’t materialize.Instead, the old water filtration plant in Hendersonville, Tennessee, closed at 10:09...
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Planet Water Foundation Supports Hurricane Relief Effort in Puerto Rico
Planet Water Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on bringing clean water to the world’s most impoverished communities, recently announced plans to deploy 12...
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Water Quality Analyst Finds Success Meeting Challenges Head-On
When the largest wastewater treatment facility in Alaska switched from chlorine gas disinfection to sodium hypochlorite, Andrew Johnson faced a challenge. He...
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Get More Life and Better Performance From Your Blowers
For the past decade, high-speed turbo blowers have helped many wastewater treatment facilities significantly increase aeration efficiency and drive down energy costs.At...
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Turning Open Plant Property Into Renewable Energy on the Cheap
The solar power system at the Silver City Wastewater Treatment Plant is not exactly what town officials first envisioned. For one thing,...
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See How This Plant Solved Its Short-Term Staffing Problem
Everything was running smoothly at the Menlo Park (California) Municipal Water District. Then, the chief operator and water system supervisor left for...
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Ordinary Treatment Plant Tank Becomes Focal Point of Community
It took nearly 1,000 gallons of light beige paint to spruce up the 7.5-million-gallon reservoir at the South Water Treatment Plant in...






















