Scrapers clean solids from intake systemProblem
Backwash strainers at a wastewater treatment plant in Toronto, were consistently clogging with oversized solids that made...
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Positive Feedback
Customers adopting water efficiency practices and conservation programs from the East Bay Municipal Utility District enabled water usage to remain flat for...
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Better Than Rehab
The 20-year-old Miner (Mo.) Wastewater Treatment Plant faced a number of technical issues in 2012. The town’s old three-cell 0.302 mgd aerated...
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Double Duty
The Iron Bridge Wastewater Reclamation Facility can claim several firsts. It was one of the world’s largest treatment plants to use rotating...
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2014 Headworks and Biosolids Management Directory
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What’s All the Fuss?
Biosolids have been put to beneficial use for decades, in fact for centuries. Across North America, excellent recycling programs have thrived for...
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Trouble on the Horizon?
A small community contacted Florida Gateway College with a concern about 1, 4-dioxane, a new pollutant that has been found in water...
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High Accuracy, Less Chemistry
Accuracy matters greatly in online chlorine measurement, but so does the cost of the measurement device and the reagents it consumes.The Thermo...
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Savings Everywhere
The Birch Bay Water and Sewer District wastewater treatment plant is small, and so are its staff and community.In six years as...
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Failure to Break Down
Do you need hard evidence that some “flushable” wipes products really don’t break down as advertised? Sixth-grader Savanna Ballard has it.She called...
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Pulling Out All the Stops
Droughts are a serious matter for Austin, Texas. The city watershed system includes the Colorado River and the Highland Lake chains with...
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August 2014
More on plant namesI’ve been involved for years in the discussions about what to call wastewater treatment plants. In 1995, I took...
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A Little More Oomph
Many clean-water plants do their own outreach. The City of Montpelier (Vt.) Wastewater Treatment Plant is among them.“But when you do tours...
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The Reclamation Imperative
Think back to how our society functioned 50 or 60 years ago. We drank beer or soda pop from cans that we...
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Good Well Hunting
Some people who live in older neighborhoods in Madison, Wis., are surprised to find Kevin Miller at their door, asking to look for...
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Up With Efficiency
When the City of Winter Haven Utility Service Department began an aggressive cost savings program in 2012, leaders made sure the operations staff...
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A Stellar Team
Jennifer Baca and Chris Lopez love a challenge, and it has taken them far. From temporary laborer, to senior operator in charge of...
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Green Insurance
In the western Oregon cities of Springfield and Eugene, a successful program provides land-applied biosolids to local farmers, mainly for growing grasses. But...
