Kids can read textbooks or write papers on the importance of clean water, but it’s tough to get the ideas to sink...
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Maine Students Get Water Message Straight From the Fish's Mouth
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Norristown Operations Team Key to Award-Winning Plant
The operations staff members at the Norristown Water Treatment Plant have faced many challenges, from hurricanes and floods to a five-year, $50...
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Seminole Tribe Brings Excellence to Water and Wastewater Treatment
Anyone who has cruised aboard a ship homeported in Port Everglades has come within about 10 miles of the Seminole Tribe of...
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How an EMS Created a Cost-Effective Biosolids Program
An environmental management system (EMS) sounds like a complex exercise, but to Andy Kricun and Jack Connolly, it’s really quite simple.Management establishes...
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The Basics of Ultrasonic Meters
Today’s business environment demands informed decision-making. It’s essential to provide superior customer service, use water and energy wisely, manage operations efficiently and...
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One Operator's Road from Basketball to Wastewater
David McAlpin is proof that the adage “Listen to yourelders” pays off. As general manager of the Blountsville (Alabama) Utility Board, McAlpin...
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How to Use Solar Energy to Offset Upgrade Costs
When the Town of Hurlock, Maryland, upgraded its wastewater treatment plant to meet new effluent limits, the project cost $7.5 million and...
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Minnesota Plant Finds Chemical Solution for Phosphorus Reduction
Effluent from the Virginia (Minnesota) Wastewater Treatment Plant discharges to Manganika Lake, which is impaired by eutrophication. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency...
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The Money-Saving Capabilities of Ammonia-Based Aeration Control
About half of a typical clean-water plant’s energy goes to aeration. It follows that pumping more air than necessary into the activated...
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The Quest to Save Mockingbird Hill Village
When upgrading the Highland Avenue Water Treatment Plant in 2009, the City of Augusta, Georgia, faced an obstacle.A community of miniature buildings...
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Q&A: WEF's Paul Bowen Chimes in on Sustainability
Paul Bowen traces his interest in water treatment back to a crude water filter he made during grade school. From there, it...
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ZeeLung Provides Energy Efficient Fine-Bubble Aeration
As clean-water plants strive to become resource recovery facilities, energy neutrality is a key goal. There are two components to get there:...
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Reflections on Earth Day
I was a senior in high school at the time of the first Earth Day (April 22, 1970). What I remember from...
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Hayward CPVC product lines receive ABS approval
Hayward Flow Control received American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) product approvals for most of its CPVC thermoplastic flow control product lines. They...
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Monitoring and Instrumentation
Valve positioner provides boost to effluent qualityProblem: An Illinois wastewater treatment plant needed to improve the valve position on each of its...
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Lystek International Releases 2015 Crop Trial Results
Canadian biofertilizer producer Lystek International has released the results of an in-depth crop trial completed during Ontario's 2015 growing year.The Cambridge-based firm uses low-temperature, low-cost...
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News Briefs: Human Fetus Found at Wastewater Treatment Plant
A 17- to -18-week human fetus was found at the Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Plant in Rio Rico, Arizona, on March 4....
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Worth Noting - April 2016
People/AwardsSteve Graceffa retired as the executive director of the Rock River (Illinois) Water Reclamation District. Graceffa joined the district in January 1970.Lamont...
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Therma-Flite Biosolids Drying System Offers Affordable Option to Landfill Disposal
The SludgeBox modular, biosolids drying system from Therma-Flite offers a lower cost option to landfill disposal. Designed to produce Class A biosolids,...
