Heavy rains flowing through the Ohio city of Springfield’s combined sewer system overwhelmed the wastewater treatment plant. The city averaged 50 to...
Entries Tagged Bar Screen
Editorial
Minnesota Plant Finds Chemical Solution for Phosphorus Reduction
Effluent from the Virginia (Minnesota) Wastewater Treatment Plant discharges to Manganika Lake, which is impaired by eutrophication. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency...
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The Decision Maker: How La Plata Plant Became an Award-Winner
Heavy runoff caused sanitary sewer overflows in the Town of La Plata, Maryland. At the La Plata Wastewater Reclamation Facility, high influxes...
Editorial
Biosolids Management and Headworks
Mixing system leads to significant energy savingsProblem: The Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Metropolitan Sewerage District needed to reduce the mixing energy in the anaerobic...
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Florida Treatment Plant Transitions to Sophisticated Step-Feed Biological Nutrient Removal
The Eustis Wastewater Treatment Plant went online in 1959 with a 1.0 mgd trickling filter process. Fifty-seven years later, it’s a 2.4...
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How One City Tackled Expensive Infrastructure Upgrades
The Louisiana City of Tallulah prospered for many years, until the 1970s, when a large lumber mill closed down and the newly...
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Automated Bar Screen Solves Problems At Arizona Lift Station
An antiquated 2-inch manual bar screen allowed some objects almost as large as a bed sheet to enter the Bell Road Lift...
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Award-Winning Indiana Plant Maintains Tough Standards
Low crime, good schools and economic growth make Brownsburg one of the best places to live in Indiana — it ranks 33rd...
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Ingenuity and an Electrical Engineering Technology Degree Are Strong Assets for an Ohio Operator
Until the upgrade for the Warren (Ohio) Water Pollution Control facility becomes reality, Mike Welke and his crews nurse and coerce every...
Editorial
Bar screen with oversized rakes eliminates bottom sprockets for reduced maintenance
The Screenmaster CS (chain screen) mechanical bar screen from Franklin Miller provides efficient cleaning and removal of solids from channel installations. The...
Screening Systems - REE Products StationGuard
The StationGuard removable bar screen from REE Products filters non-organic debris that can typically be hard on pumps. It is quickly installed,...
Screening Systems - E & I Corporation Catenary Bar Screen
The Catenary Bar Screen from E & I Corporation, A Div. of McNish Corporation, is used for the screening of solids from...
Screening Systems - Aqualitec Corp. Raketec
The Raketec multi-rake bar screen from Aqualitec Corp. is capable of huge flow capacity, with low operational costs and hassle-free maintenance. It...
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Headworks and Biosolids Management
Scrapers clean solids from intake systemProblem: Backwash strainers at a wastewater treatment plant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, were consistently clogging with oversized...
















