Running both reverse osmosis trains at the Hargesheimer Water Treatment Plant posed the risk of overloading the three evaporation lagoons (39.5 million...
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See How a New Mexico Plant Got 7,000 Kids to Care About Wastewater
Who really owns a river? Technically, the answer is no one. But employees of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County (New Mexico) Water Utility...
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Stepping Up in Class: Finding a Way to Make Class A Biosolids
Landfill space was at a premium. Land application of Class B biosolids faced public skepticism and rising costs. So the Mechanicsburg (Pennsylvania)...
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The Fast Track: An Operator's Journey to Wastewater Supervisor
Working 10 years for the Street Department in the Missouri city of Carrollton didn’t prepare Tammy Hamblen for her move to the...
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Reaching Higher: An Operator's Pursuit of Knowledge
Wanting to know the “why” behind everything has dominated Garry Houston’s life. When hired to work at the newly completed microfiltration Hargesheimer...
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How a UV System Kept Big Sky's Award-Winning Water Intact
When your drinking water has won 2015 state and national AWWA taste awards, why change anything?That was a question the Big Sky...
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Pest Problems at the Plant? Check Out This Guy's Natural Solution
The air around the biosolids drying beds at the Dos Rios Water Recycling Center used to be thick with flies.They were a...
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Buying Time: How an Effluent Filter Change is Saving a City
A simple change in effluent filters at the wastewater treatment plant is saving the Indiana city of Crown Point money, time and...
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This Treatment Plant Turned an Ugly Concrete Wall Into a City Attraction
The operators and staff of the Fayette County Water System are proud of their 2016 People’s Choice: Best of the Best Tasting...
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See How Two Leading Water Groups in Illinois Are Sharing Ideas
Many states have two (or more) associations for water and wastewater professionals. Typically there’s an independent operators’ group and a Water Environment...
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Wood Pellets — A New Choice for Spill Absorption
Spill absorption materials include cellulose, cotton, synthetics and crushed fossilized shells. Another such material, Premium Wood Pellets from Bald Eagle Pellet Co.,...
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Company Puts Algae to Work with New Solids Pretreatment Process
Clean-water plants increasingly look beyond the treatment of wastewater and toward resource recovery. A variety of technologies coming to market in recent...
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A Creative Approach to Improving Plant Operations
When faced with a plague of insects around a facility, plant managers in many industries might resort by reflex to the obvious...
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Biosolids Management and Headworks
Aeration and mixing unit helps plant keep up with increasing demandProblem: The Big Park Domestic Wastewater Improvements District in Arizona built a...
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Worth Noting - February 2017
People/AwardsThe city of Klamath Falls, Oregon, hired Ray Busch as wastewater division manager.The village of Breckenridge received a $521,063 grant from the...
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Versatile pump series added to Xylem’s rental offerings
Flygt 3000 Series electric submersible pumps are now offered as a rental option, making them ideal for temporary bypass pumping projects at...
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Radar level transmitters are cost-effective and easy to use
FMR10 and FMR20 free space radar level transmitters from Endress+Hauser can be used to measure liquid levels in storage tanks, open basins,...



















