As part of a 2012 upgrade to the H.C. Morgan Water Pollution Control Facility, the City of Auburn, Alabama, decided to convert...
Alabama Articles
Editorial
How to Solve Your Long-Term Biosolids Management Issues
The Municipal Utilities Board of the City of Albertville evaluated numerous options before settling on a long-term biosolids technology.Between landfilling 30 years...
Editorial
One Operator's Road from Basketball to Wastewater
David McAlpin is proof that the adage “Listen to yourelders” pays off. As general manager of the Blountsville (Alabama) Utility Board, McAlpin...
Editorial
More Than a Pretty Face: Alabama Plant Exceeds Requirements
Visitors to the Athens (Alabama) Wastewater Treatment Plant may feel that they are entering a botanical garden: Its lush landscaping makes it...
Editorial
Shades Mountain Water Treatment Plant Tackles Turbidity, Disinfection
Bigger isn’t always better, unless you’re the Shades Mountain Water Treatment Plant.This 80 mgd facility in Birmingham, the largest water plant in...
Videos
Athens Treatment Plant Keeps Up Appearances
When the Athens (Alabama) Wastewater Treatment Plant came online in 2009, the staff faced a few training and startup challenges. Listen in...
Online Exclusives
News Briefs: Spark from Saw Starts Treatment Plant Fire
On late Tuesday, a small explosion at the Metropolitan Wastewater Treatment Plant in St. Paul, Minnesota, quickly turned into a blaze so...
Online Exclusives
News Briefs: Treatment Plant Floods After Water Main Breaks
Cleanup is underway at the West Jefferson Treatment Plant in Detroit, where a 16-inch water main break caused flooding inside the facility....
Editorial
Pulling Together
In the old days, several communities in Alabama’s St. Clair County depended on individual wells for drinking water — sources that weren’t...
Editorial
Better Through Adversity
It’s hard to find a silver lining in the dark cloud of a massive tornado that knocks out all power across a...
Editorial
Highly Decorated
Excellence is a way of life at Alabama’s Harvest-Monrovia Water & Sewer Authority. The authority’s 10 mgd Burwell Water Treatment Plant and...
Editorial
So Long, Low Profile
In some communities, property owners come home from work to find their lawn torn up by the utility department and start searching...
Blogs
The Fire Chief Project: Cub Scouts visit a clean-water plant
Who better to invite for a clean-water plant tour than Cub Scouts? They’re part of the Boy Scouts of America, for whom...

















