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Ingenuity Winner: Larry Bastian's Creative Brain Improves Operations at DC Water

Some people are tinkerers — they just love fixing things. Larry Bastian has used that skill to improve plant process in the most creative ways imaginable.
  • By Jim Force
  • November 10, 2014

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Ingenuity Winner: Larry Bastian's Creative Brain Improves Operations at DC Water
To measure solids concentrations at different levels in the sludge blanket, Bastian modified a Sludge Judge by placing sample ports in the bottom 5-foot section.

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