The North Cary (North Carolina) Water Reclamation Facility has been in service since 1974, but to the casual observer, it doesn’t look...
Editorial
Paul Ray and His Team Keep an Older Plant Running Like New by Paying Close Attention to Detail
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Videos
Biosolids Are This City's Class-A Community Asset
Join lead operator Russell Coleman of the Oostanaula Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Athens, Tennessee, as he shows off the process used...
Editorial
There's Never a Surplus of Biosolids Product in Athens, Tennessee. Demand Exceeds Supply
The Athens Utilities Board is in a position where any product marketer would like to be: demand that exceeds supply.
Since 2006, the...
Editorial
Lebanon Breaks New Ground in Self-Sufficiency With a Tennessee Gasification Initiative
It started with a landfill running out of space and on borrowed time. It ended with an energy plant that each year...
Editorial
Fort Wayne Takes Beneficial Use to Entirely New Levels
Earth Day began on April 22, 1970. The biosolids beneficial use program in Fort Wayne, Indiana, goes back almost that far.
The city’s...
Editorial
Plant Ensures Quality Effluent Through Sound Maintenance and Continuing Education for Staff
There’s nothing fancy about the Pascagoula/Moss Point (Mississippi) Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. Day by day, year by year, it churns out clean...
Editorial
Herlon J. Fayard Jr. Succeeds With Effective Training, Personal Conviction and People-Oriented Management
Herlon J. Fayard Jr. was the new kid on the block when he became supervisor of the Shoal Creek Water Reclamation Facility...
Editorial
Meticulous Care From an Experienced Operator Family Keeps These Alabama Plants Spotless and Effluent Sparkling
The effluent from SouthWest Water’s two main wastewater treatment plants in Alabama consistently meets permits that include a 0.2 mg/L phosphorus limit.
That’s...
Editorial
A $58 Million Plant Upgrade Sets Kankakee Operators Up for Success
If there’s a great before and after story
in municipal wastewater treatment, it could be Kankakee, Illinois.
Before 2010, the Kankakee River Metropolitan...
Editorial
Structured Ceramic Media Boosts Emissions Control Efficiency in a Florida Biosolids Drying Facility
The regenerative emissions treatment system at the Buckman Regional Residuals Biosolids Treatment Facility suffered from frequent clogging of the ceramic block media.
The...
Editorial
Here's How a Florida Treatment Plant Team Deals With Hurricanes and Other Storm Events
Please excuse the staff at the Palm Coast Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 1 for complaining about lousy weather.Hurricane Irma was just the...
Editorial
Life Is Full of Second Chances. Cliff Church Provides a Sterling Example
Sorry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are second acts in America. Just ask Cliff Church and his colleagues at the Myrtle Creek Sewage...
Editorial
A Love of Science Led to a Rewarding Career for Laboratory Specialist Suzanne Potts
Studying to be a dentist didn’t light a fire of enthusiasm for Suzanne Potts, but it did ignite her love of chemistry...
Editorial
Out With Odors and In With High-Quality Biosolids
For some two decades, Renda Environmental has applied more than 40,000 dry tons of Class A exceptional quality lime-stabilized and dewatered biosolids...
