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Clay County Utility Authority installed Neutralizer systems at each of its four wastewater treatment plants between 2006 and 2010. The streamlined, patented...

In almost all things, wastewater treatment operators need to strike a delicate balance. They are asked to maintain cutting-edge processes but to...

So-called flushable wipes are causing serious issues for a wastewater treatment plant out of Muskegon County, Michigan, and residents are complaining about...

When a small tank mixing system is all that is needed, consider a simplified Rotamix system with a chopper pump and external-mount...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced it will reach out to states, local communities and stakeholders as it begins a...

America’s water is under threat from many sides. It faces pollution problems, outdated infrastructure, rising costs, and unprecedented droughts and rainfall patterns...

Although 2017 brought significant rainfall to a dry state, Californians remain concerned about future droughts, and the majority support using advanced technologies...

Q: How did Vaughan get started making chopper pumps?A: Vaughan Company’s roots are in the dairy manure industry during the 1950s. Founder Jim...

Entry 245110Welcome back to TPO magazine's Exam Study Guide Series, which offers a pair of water/wastewater study questions with in-depth explanations of the answers. Last time,...

It should be no surprise that something as simultaneously complex and critical as wastewater treatment has a long history of technological development....

The Tri-Lakes Biosolids Regional Drying Facility brings in material from three wastewater treatment plants in the Branson, Missouri, area. Three centrifuges and...

Entry 245113Although this first bit of news originates further from home than usual, it's a pretty wild story and a good reminder...

The Vaughan Rotamix system incorporates several basic principles of physics and hydraulics, including uniform and vortical fields of flow, induced flow and...

As we saw at the end of last summer, flooding from storms like Hurricane Harvey are capable of overwhelming a large number...

Phosphorus is essential to life and so it is present in plants and animals. Phosphorus promotes growth, which is good for a...

Lead contamination was found in 70 percent of the 2,797 homes tested in Chicago as part of a program allowing residents to...

A recent report attributes 80 percent of the Legionnaires’ disease cases during Flint, Michigan’s 2014-15 outbreak to the changes in the city’s...

In September of 2014, a CleanB system was installed at the wastewater treatment facility in Fort Pierce, Florida. Before the CleanB installation,...

Entry 245130Two water treatment operators in Siskiyou County, California, lost their operators’ licenses for failure to report bacteria in Dunsmuir and McCloud...