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Industry News - September 2012
Buckley joins UV Pure Technologies
Steve Buckley joined UV Pure Technologies and will be responsible for a sales territory and business development...
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Real-World Practice
Imagine showing up at your treatment plant in the morning and finding your process completely out of kilter. It's no...
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Scrubbing Bubbles
Pumping concentrated brown grease at 180 degrees F into a heated 10,000-gallon storage tank at the Easterly Wastewater Treatment Plant...
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Plant Pride
Making an impression on the youth in Greeley, Colo., has been easy for industrial pretreatment specialist Eddie Treviño.
"I told my five-year-old granddaughter...
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Sized Just Right
The Neely Wastewater Reclamation Plant in Gilbert, Ariz., now gets 44 percent of its electricity from photovoltaic solar arrays it...
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Digital Technology
SCADA solves pressure spikes
Problem
Pumping conflicts in 16 lift stations on a major force main in Winter Park, Fla., were causing pressure flow...
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Could wastewater power microbial fuel cells and generate enormous energy?
Gizmag reports that engineers from Oregon State University have developed new technology that enhances the performance of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) that...
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Paper tells how wastewater can be part of the solution to water shortages
Reclamation of wastewater into drinking water can help provide the world with much more drinking water, according to the August 10 edition...
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Resignations driven by pay cuts leave a major California treatment plant short-staffed
The San Jose (Calif.) Mercury-News reports that a rash of resignations tied to recent pay and benefit cuts has left the San...
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WERF selects Black & Veatch to lead research on net-zero energy solutions for wastewater treatment
Energy costs are a significant part of utility operating budgets, and more utilities today are trying to become energy neutral or even net...
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Raw sewage discharge leads to temporary closure of Kings River in California
An accidental discharge of raw sewage forced the closure of a stretch of the Kings River in Tulare County, Calif., on Monday, July...
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WEFTEC workshops shed light on biogas
The Water Environment Federation will explore obstacles to harnessing biogas and present solutions in a series of workshops at WEFTEC 2012 in...
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Gresham wastewater treatment plant will fill all power needs with onsite sources
The Oregonian newspaper reports that the 13 mgd (average) Gresham Wastewater Treatment Plant will the first in the state and second on...
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Flow meter measures methane content in biogases
Endress+Hauser has introduced the Proline Prosonic B 200 ultrasonic flow meter for measuring the flow rate and methane content of wet biogas,...
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Drought intensifying across the U.S., according to AWWA
Drought conditions that have gripped much of the central United States this summer are intensifying, reports the National Drought Mitigation Center at...
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EPA meeting to seek public input on "lead free" definition
The U.S. EPA will host a public meeting Aug. 16 to solicit input from states, manufacturers, drinking water systems, and other interested...
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Reward offered to stop illegal septage dumping that is fouling wastewater plant
Someone in Claremont, N.C., is dumping 8,000 to 10,000 gallons of septage per week into the city’s wastewater system and it is “creating...











