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Updated Water Management Plan to Help Utilities Meet Infrastructure Challenges
Nearly a decade after an agreement among six water trade organizations and the EPA that pledged to develop a water sector utility...
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Water & Wastewater Industry News: February 2017
Frost & Sullivan recognizes Aclara with award
Frost & Sullivan has recognized Aclara with its 2016 Global Enabling Technology Leadership Award. The award...
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Exam Study Guide: Public Water Systems
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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News Briefs: Untreated Waste Continues Spilling Into Puget Sound
Post-storm flooding and damage at the West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle has caused the plant to operate at half capacity, and...
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Researchers Using E. coli to Detect EDCs
Researchers at ACS Central Science are reporting they can quickly detect environmentally relevant concentrations of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) using engineered E....
White Papers
Iron and Manganese Removal From Design to Startup
AdEdge Water Technologies was contacted in early 2015 to design, manufacture, and start up an iron and manganese removal system for the City...
Blogs
More Than a Concrete Jungle: An Outsider Tours Water-Centric Milwaukee
I always dreamed of visiting Jones Island. It has actually been on my bucket list for decades.I wish I could say Jones Island...
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LIFT SEE IT Scholarship Winners Announced
Eleven public water resource recovery facilities have been awarded travel scholarships for utility staff under the Leaders Innovation Forum for Technology (LIFT)...
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Water & Wastewater Product News: February 2017
Blue-White hybrid diaphragm chemical metering pump
The Proseries-M MD-3 hybrid diaphragm chemical metering pump from Blue-White has sonic-welded manifolds for added durability and protection from chemical leaks....
Editorial
How Getting an Operator's Perspective Helped This WWTP Designer
The two years Mark Knudson spent as a wastewater operator at the Cowlitz County (Oregon) Water Pollution Control Plant made all the...
Editorial
Traditional Retirement Not an Option for This Award-Winning Operator
After winning a prestigious award for his contributions to the industry, John Adie retired from a 25-year career at the wastewater treatment...
Editorial
Experience Pays Off for Operators at New Facility
When the Florida town of Davie built its new water reclamation facility with a membrane bioreactor, the operators had no experience with...
Editorial
Advanced System Ups Quality for San Elijo Plant
As a small wastewater/recycled water agency with just 21 employees, the San Elijo Joint Powers Authority (SEJPA) has accomplished big things.In 2016,...
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Water Festival Rides Pokémon Fad to Increase Attendance
Unless you’ve lived off the grid for the past nine months, you’ve probably heard of the hit game, “Pokémon Go.”Laurie Loftin learned...
Editorial
WWTP Energy Audit Leads to Money-Saving Changes
Energy conservation is part of the planning process for the city of Stratford, Ontario. With the wastewater treatment plant consuming more than...
Editorial
Choosing Durability: WWTP Team Replaces Mixers' Impeller Blades
Are fiberglass or stainless steel impeller blades better for a wastewater treatment plant’s mixers? At one of the world’s largest research parks,...
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Hurricane Leads Hoboken Plant to Design, Install Major Improvements
Lots of rain and stormwater runoff in a short time can challenge any combined sewer system.Just ask the operators of the Adams...
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Rehabilitating Gravity Filters
Granular filter media (effective sizes from 0.5 to 1.5 mm) generally remove particles larger than 7 to 10 percent of the smallest...




















