Dustin Preheim spent 10 years as a landscape designer developing backyard environments for homeowners. Now he designs the environments for hardworking bacteria...
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From Lagoon to Mechanical, Dustin Preheim and Team Made It Happen
Entries Tagged Bar Screen
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One Water: This Vermont Team Does It All!
The Winooski Wastewater Treatment Facility has come a long way in the past three decades.
First commissioned in 1972, it has seen a...
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Lee County Proves It: Nothing Drives Performance Like a Well-Educated Team
Laura Longa took a tour of the Fiesta Village Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant soon after receiving her college degree in biology.
Fascinated by...
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Military Service Made a Runway to a Career for This South Dakota Operator
When Mark Hierholzer joined the United States Air Force he had no thought of becoming a wastewater operator.
“In 1984, I started college...
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Quality, Not Quantity. That’s the Secret to This Plant’s Safety Achievements.
The award-winning safety record at the wastewater treatment plant in Hanover Park is partly a result of planning and training.
But Chris Rebone,...
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For This Operator, Clean Water Is a Family Matter
Wastewater treatment is a family affair for Dale Grudier II.
Now director of operations and maintenance at the 40 mgd Bergen Point treatment...
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Flawless Operation and Longevity Make the RakeMax Invaluable to Guelph’s Screening Process
It had become obvious to the City of Guelph, Ontario, that it was time to replace several of the components in its...
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For This Lead Plant Operator, It’s All About Helping People
When Manuel Dos Santos entered the Air Force, he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do with his life.
He only knew it...
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Hodge Helped His Community Prosper, and Did the Same for His Team Members
Editor’s Note: John Luther Hodge, 61, died from a heart attack Aug. 23, 2023. Hodge was born on April 18, 1962 in...
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Award-Winning Biosolids Program Is Built on Relationships
It’s more than product quality that makes for an exemplary biosolids program at the Central Davis Sewer District in Utah.
The key ingredient,...
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Duperon Increases Plant Resilience With Bar Screen That Adapts to Flow Conditions
Faced with an increase in extreme weather events, together with an increase in nontreatable solids such as “flushable” wipes, wastewater treatment plants...
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Incremental Improvements Are Fine, but This Clean-Water Plant Looks to Hit Home Runs
Growing cities have to pay big to sustain wastewater treatment capacity and meet permit limits. Austin Water does so with conviction.
For illustration,...
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When Amanda Martin Akins Came on Board, This Georgia Community Got More Than an Operator
You don’t typically picture a clean-water superintendent writing grants for items like a street sweeper, flower plantings for the downtown, or vests...
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This Operations Team Takes Care of its Plant - Even if That Means Living There in an Emergency
When a wastewater treatment staff literally lives at the plant for five straight days during an ice storm, you’d expect them to...
