Entries Tagged Activated Sludge System

Editor's Note: Innovation was a big theme at WEFTEC 2014. We'll be featuring a few of the new and better technologies found...

The Graton (Calif.) Community Services District (GCSD) had just been formed in July 2004 when the Regional Water Quality Control Board issued...

When the City of Winter Haven Utility Service Department began an aggressive cost savings program in 2012, leaders made sure the operations staff...

When operators are faced with licensing exams, they sometimes struggle with test anxiety because they don’t fully understand how to properly study...

The wastewater treatment industry faces new challenges every day. Technologies are developed to meet compliance standards in the face of these new...

Turbo blower leads to energy efficiencyProblem Lakota Wastewater Treatment Plant in Lakehaven Utility District, Wash., sought to address rising energy costs and aging...

A lot has changed since 2007 at the White Slough Water Pollution Control Plant in Lodi, Calif. There’s a new biosolids process,...

Maybe John McCool would rather have an automated bar screen scraper instead of having to rake the screen three times a day....

A lot has changed since 2007 at the White Slough Water Pollution Control Plant in Lodi, Calif. There’s a new biosolids process,...

One of the tried and true process control tests of the activated sludge treatment method, the settleability test has become an operator’s...

In a previous article (“What the Heck is SVI?”), I discussed sludge volume index (SVI) and its value as a process control...

The plant operator was at his wits' end. The sludge just wouldn't settle, no matter how he tried to control...

The Missouri River and Mississippi River waste-water treatment plants in St. Charles, Mo., have been challenged to keep up with ...

You wouldn't know it by looking, but the Paris Utility District in the Village of South Paris, Maine, has a brand...