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Editorial
Welder. Operator. Designer. Consultant. Tim Wilkey Took a Winding Career Path Before Returning Home.
Tim Wilkey started his work life as a welder. Now toward the end of it, he’s superintendent of the Wastewater Division in...
Editorial
Tom Myers Thrives on Relationships With Other Operators, Engineers, Regulators and Others
Tom Myers has reaped many rewards from a 43-year career in the clean-water profession. He’ll be the first to tell you he...
Editorial
FlexRake Screens Prove to Be Efficient Solutions for Lift Stations and a Treatment Plant
The Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority serves the Connecticut communities of New Haven, Hamden, East Haven and Woodbridge.
Focused on wastewater...
Editorial
Effective Planning and Consistent Maintenance Helped This Plant Win the 'Stanley Cup of Wastewater'
When the Bloomington-Normal Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant won a 2018 Plant of the Year award from the Illinois Association of Water Pollution...
Editorial
A Massachusetts Operator Didn't Shy Away From a Challenge to Take on a New Career Role
Paula Ely was surprised a couple of decades ago when her clean-water plant superintendent took her aside and said, “I want you...
Editorial
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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Case Studies - August 2019
Screw press efficient in dewatering membrane bioreactor biosolids
Problem: The Decatur (Arkansas) Wastewater Treatment Plant’s dewatering technology was undersized and inefficient. With the added...
Editorial
The Village of Slinger's Process Optimization Initiative Has Spanned Three Years in Search of Phosphorus Reduction
The Slinger (Wisconsin) Wastewater Treatment Plant will face a monthly average phosphorus limit of 0.075 mg/L in 2023.
Since the village (population 5,500)...
Editorial
A Zero-Stream-Discharge Treatment Plant Now Produces Pipeline-Quality Methane From Its Biosolids
Dodge City’s South Wastewater Treatment Plant in southwest Kansas was built for zero stream discharge because even back in the 1980s, city...
Editorial
Schwing Bioset Process Helps a Community Maximize Beneficial Use of Resources
Innovative solutions in wastewater are not limited to treatment plants in big cities. Small or midsized operations can be progressive as well.
The...
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Case Studies - Biosolids Management and Headworks
Cleaning system eliminates biomass, increases productivity
Problem: Shane Donoghue, a wastewater facilities manager in a large Australian city, saw accumulation of FOG and biomass up...
Screening Systems - Aqualitec Screentec
Screentec from Aqualitec is an automatic vertical bar screen designed for headworks, pump stations, lift stations, wet wells and manholes. It protects...
Editorial
Some Plant Operators Are Specialists. Team Members at Crystal Lake Do It All.
There’s cross-training. And on-the-job training. And hands-on training.
And then there’s around-the-horn training. That’s what they practice at the Crystal Lake (Illinois) Wastewater...
