The North East Biosolids & Residuals Association is set to hold its next Northeast Digestion Roundtable webinar Friday, April 14, at 11...
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NEBRA Plans Northeast Digestion Roundtable Webinar April 14
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Princeton Researchers Claim WWTPs Emit Nearly Twice as Much Methane as Previously Thought
Municipal wastewater treatment plants emit nearly double the amount of methane into the atmosphere than scientists previously believed, according to new research...
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Completing the Circle: Create Biosolids, Use the Biogas to Dry Them
The Stevens Point Water Department decommissioned the combined heat and power system at its wastewater treatment plant and redirected the biogas to...
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NEBRA Plans Digestion Roundtable Webinars for 2023
The North East Biosolids & Residuals Association has announced it will hold three Northeast Digestion Roundtable webinars in 2023.
NEBRA organizes the webinars...
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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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A Maryland Operator Rallied His Team and Led With Conviction Through a Challenging Time
Imagine you buy a house and on the day you’re to move in it is half finished and teeming with construction workers.
That’s...
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Exam Study Guide - July 2022
WASTEWATER
By Rick Lallish
What color is the waste gas burner on a properly operating anaerobic digester with an approximate mixture of methane 68%...
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Small-Town Phoenixville Launches a Big Innovation in Beneficial Use of Biosolids
The Borough of Phoenixville is a small municipality in southeastern Pennsylvania that rises to the challenges of being first.
It was first in...
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Forty Years in Clean Water. No Plans to Retire
Many high school students find their first jobs at McDonald’s or Burger King. Not Wade Lagle.
“I didn’t really want to work at a...
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Exam Study Guide - April 2022
WASTEWATER
By Rick Lallish
Which classification of anaerobic digester is the most efficient at pathogen reduction, increased volatile solids reduction and decreased detention times?
A. Heterophilic
B....
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Instruments Can Hold the Key to More Cost-Effective and Permit-Compliant Plant Performance
Entry 223305Stricter effluent limits for wastewater plants place a growing importance on the accurate measurement of parameters in the treatment process.
Today’s operators...
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This Minnesota City Casts a Wide Net in Capturing Efficiencies and Sustainable Practices
At the St. Cloud Wastewater Treatment Facility, success led to more success with energy and sustainability projects.
Things moved so quickly that the...
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Many people helped Shelly Higdon advance in her career. Now she takes time to pay it forward.
What does a career spanning more than three decades in one place look like? Ask Michele “Shelly” Higdon, laboratory manager for the Shelbyville (Indiana)...
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Technology Innovations Deliver Greater Output and More Sustainable Operation From Anaerobic Digesters
The U.S. EPA reports that organic food waste and yard trimmings accounted for 28% of the total mixed solid waste in the...
