People/Awards
Lisa Rhea was hired as the senior water resources manager for the City of St. Petersburg, Florida. She will oversee the city’s...
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Worth Nothing - October 2019
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Water Utilities Commended for Transformational Activities
The forward-thinking initiatives of 43 water utilities are being recognized as they reimagine partnering and engagement, watershed stewardship, and recovery of resources...
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Plant Operators Are a Clever and Inventive Lot. Here Are Some Cases in Point.
One problem treatment plant operators rarely, if ever, face is surplus money to deal with the everyday issues they face.
Therefore, perhaps by...
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Worth Noting - September 2019
People/AwardsKevin Kirwan was promoted to senior vice president and chief environmental and operational excellence officer at American Water, a New Jersey-based water...
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NEW Water's Quest for Effluent Nutrient Reduction Reaches Out Across a Major Watershed
Rising in the ranks as an engineer and designer of clean-water plants, Tom Sigmund, P.E., likely never dreamed that someday he’d be...
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Consultations and Culture Change Help Lab Team Win Statewide Award
It took only three years for the new leadership at Eagle River Wastewater Treatment Plant to earn the Laboratory of the Year...
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Steve Hoambrecker: A Patient and Persistent Problem-Solver for the Communities He Serves
EDITOR’S NOTE: The subject of this article was interviewed in March 2019. After publication of the article in August, Treatment Plant Operator...
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Industrial Flows Are a Daily Challenge That the Norfolk Plant Team Meets Consistently
The Nebraska city of Norfolk is home to 24,000 people, but the Water Pollution Control Plant treats a BOD loading typical of...
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A Pennsylvania Authority Finds a Clean, Neat, Efficient Solution for Moving Beyond Class B Biosolids
For decades, the City of Lebanon Authority in Pennsylvania applied Class B biosolids to cropland in liquid or cake form. But in...
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An Innovative Training Method Helps an Environmental Engineer Appreciate the Role of Operators
As Jordan Damerel cranked the hand wheel of the heavy gate on the bar screen so his operations teammates could maintain it,...
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A Florida County Finds New Ways to Put Reclaimed Water to Work
Pasco County, Florida, is putting reclaimed water to use in a new way that makes the regional drinking water supply more sustainable...
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Worth Noting - August 2019
People/Awards
Raynetta Marshall was hired as general manager of the City of Tallahassee (Florida) Underground Utilities & Public Infrastructure Department.
The Horsham (Pennsylvania)...
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Industry News - August 2019
Aries Clean Energy biochar certified by USDA and IBI
Aries Clean Energy announced that its Aries GREEN biochar product has earned the U.S....
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A Career in Operations Leads to a Business Opportunity for a Colorado Professional
A major turning point in Wayne Ramey’s career came at his department Christmas party in 1988. His boss, the Public Works director,...
