When Maine Water Co. replaced its old Biddeford Water Treatment Plant there was no doubt there would be improvements in sustainability.
The old...
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When Communities Face Drinking-Water Crises, Bottled Water Is a ‘Temporary’ Solution That Often Lasts Years and Worsens Inequality
A massive intrusion of salt water into the Mississippi River recently left the tap water in several Louisiana communities unsafe to drink...
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Leader and Mentor: Shyness Can’t Stop Jamie Kreller
Jamie Kreller is used to overcoming challenges, professional and personal.As superintendent at the Suffield Water Pollution Control Authority in Connecticut, he has...
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A Lesson in Plant Building: Involve the Community
Charlotte Water needed to build a new clean-water plant to serve one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States.
Two older plants...
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Case Studies: Headworks and Biosolids Management
Modern decanters deliver twice the flow using half the power at water reclamation facility
Problem: A water reclamation facility in the Southeast needed to replace...
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Incremental Improvements Are Fine, but This Clean-Water Plant Looks to Hit Home Runs
Growing cities have to pay big to sustain wastewater treatment capacity and meet permit limits. Austin Water does so with conviction.
For illustration,...
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Blazing a Trail: KC Area Government Embraces a Treatment Process New to the U.S.
The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City needed a cost-effective and compact wastewater treatment process to replace an aging package...
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Case Studies: Reuse, Recovery and Energy Management
Autonomous bioaugmentation technology delivers rapid and sustainable results
ProblemThe wastewater treatment plant in Pennsylvania’s Silver Spring Township (1.2 mgd design, 0.8 mgd average) serves...
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Double-Disc Pumps Keep Waste Activated Sludge Flowing Freely to Centrifuges
Pumps are critical components in wastewater treatment facilities. The Sanford (Maine) Sewerage District experienced just how critical when the pumps feeding biosolids...
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A State-of-the-Art Water Plant Doubles as a Learning Laboratory for University Students
Universities and the water profession have long collaborated to bring innovative and effective treatment technologies to the field.But it’s not often that...
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Case Studies: Digital Technology
Wastewater collection and treatment plant updated with PLCs, SCADA
Problem
The city of Faribault, Minnesota, needed to modernize its wastewater collection system and treatment plant. The...
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A Florida Plant Dramatically Improves the Solids Side With a $100 Million Upgrade
A major upgrade to the solids process at a Florida clean-water plant has improved efficiency, reduced costs and enabled production of energy.
The $100 million...
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Teamwork Does It
Perhaps no wastewater treatment facility blends old and new as well as the Kline’s Island Wastewater Treatment Plant operated by the Lehigh...
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NACWA Looks to Answer Critical Questions: When Is Water Too Expensive? What Can Be Done About It?
For years, drinking water and wastewater utilities have invested to provide quality services, protecting lakes and streams from pollution and delivering clean,...
