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The Concord (New Hampshire) General Services Wastewater Treatment Division has kissed the low profile goodbye.Leaders decided that residents needed to understand the...

Brandon Pechin has never shied away from a challenge.For years, he ran his own property maintenance business. He later helped the city...

Kingsport is a city of hills and ridges. Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee, it is also a place where...

Not every clean-water plant operator can get paid for purposely upsetting the process or causing an equipment malfunction.Rick Lallish can — and...

An August 2017 open house and ribbon-cutting at the 15 mgd Ames (Iowa) Water Treatment Plant welcomed the public and launched a...

Biosolids can be among the valuable resources recovered from clean-water plants. Yet, few operators would object to producing smaller volumes because the...

People/AwardsFor the ninth straight year, the city of Forks (Washington) Wastewater Treatment Plant received an Outstanding Performance Award from the Washington State...

As a teenager working at the Marshall Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant, Rick Bailey got a lesson about quality work.“My boss was Harold...

Twenty-five years ago, Tony Wood’s life made a right-angle turn: He got married and within a month became the chief operator of...

When the largest wastewater treatment facility in Alaska switched from chlorine gas disinfection to sodium hypochlorite, Andrew Johnson faced a challenge. He...

People/AwardsThe Water Environment Federation announced its 2017 WEF Fellows recipients:Eleanor Allen, Water For People, Denver. Rajendra Bhattarai, Austin (Texas) Water Utility. James Clark, Black...

Bragging rights for the next year will go to the city of Norman, Oklahoma, for beating eight other cities competing in the...

When auditor Brandy Baker-Munich of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) first saw the difficulties the city of Eagle River had...

Tim Mills operates the town of Bethel, Vermont, wastewater treatment plant all by himself. He’s up early to be at the plant...