The first challenge for the Jackson Wastewater Treatment Plant was to reduce energy use by 10 percent. With that achieved, the goal...
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Editorial
The Predictive Maintenance Value of Vibration Monitors
Water and wastewater plant maintenance has undergone a revolution. Operators have moved from routinely servicing machinery at predetermined intervals regardless of condition...
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Alaska Plant Addresses Community Safety With Upgrade
For years, the Anchorage Water & Wastewater Utility had used chlorine gas as the disinfectant at its water and wastewater treatment plants.In...
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How One Midwest Treatment Plant Gives Back to Mother Nature
Creating a field of native grasses, wildflowers and trees to attract nesting birds and other wildlife has been rewarding for operators of...
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Organizational Merger Emphasizes 'One Water' Approach
The days of looking at water as separate entities — wastewater, drinking water, groundwater, stormwater — are rapidly fading. Consensus is forming...
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New Tech Takes on Primary Clarifier Duty in Small Footprint
Primary clarifiers have been basic equipment in wastewater treatment for decades, and they remain effective.Now, Hydro International offers an alternative form of...
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Sprucing Up Treatment Plants to Promote Positive Public Perception
If you had to describe a hierarchy for public officials’ status among community residents, firefighters would be near the top; water and...
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Worth Noting - May 2017
People/AwardsThe South Kingstown (Rhode Island) Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility received a 2016 Wastewater Treatment Regional Operations and Maintenance Excellence Award from the...
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B-frame circuit breaker offers smaller footprint, installation flexibility
Water system operators are constantly on the lookout for ways to add efficiency and reduce overall footprint. The PowerPact B thermal-magnetic-type circuit...
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Scale allows operators to accurately gauge polymer usage
Increasingly strict federal and state reporting requirements have created a need for water and wastewater plant operators to easily and accurately track...
Online Exclusives
Optimize Your Clarifier for Biological Phosphorus Removal
Clarifier design and operation is essential to enhanced biological phosphorus removal. Under anaerobic conditions within a deep sludge blanket, biomass releases soluble...
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Current Ebola Guidelines May Put Sewer Workers at Risk
A recent study from Drexel University and the University of Pittsburgh claims sewer workers may not be adequately protected by guidelines when...
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Exam Study Guide: Fixed Film
Maintaining your education is important, especially in a career that demands licensing exams. Prove you’re an expert operator by answering this question and others from...
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North America Sees Its First Smart Wastewater Pumping System Installation
Xylem, a leading global water technology company, recently presented to DC Water the first installation in North America of Flygt Concertor, the world’s first...
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Increase Clarifier Capacity with a Simple Retrofit Solution
Technical sales manager Jeff Schneider explains how the FEDWA baffle system improves clarifier performance with faster solids settling and increased treatment capacity.Evoqua’s FEDWA energy...
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News Briefs: Operator Describes Out-of-Control Bacterial Bloom as 'The Blob'
Treatment plant operator Matt Moore said a bacterial bloom that recently grew out of Butte, Montana’s wastewater treatment plant resembled something from...
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WWTP Covers Its Grit Tanks to Help Address Odor Concerns
The grit tank covers that Geomembrane Technologies Inc. provided at the Georgetown Wastewater Treatment Plant have successfully minimized odors.When houses were developed...


















