News Briefs: Operator Describes Out-of-Control Bacterial Bloom as 'The Blob'

In this week's water and wastewater news, a bacterial bloom causes some alarm at a Butte, Montana, treatment plant; and a huge ice dam shuts down operations at a water treatment facility in Carman, Manitoba
News Briefs: Operator Describes Out-of-Control Bacterial Bloom as 'The Blob'

Treatment plant operator Matt Moore said a bacterial bloom that recently grew out of Butte, Montana’s wastewater treatment plant resembled something from the movie “The Blob.” The growth caused the county to spill 550,000 gallons of partially treated wastewater into a nearby...

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