Mark Darmanin will tell you there’s a simple reason for the success of the North Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in Broward County,...
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What Makes This Florida Clean-Water Plant Successful? You Can Sum It Up in One Word.
Entries Tagged Bar Screen
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North Platte Operators Met the Challenge of Getting a Temperamental New Facility on Track
Most lifelong residents of North Platte, Nebraska, don’t know where the wastewater treatment plant is. That’s exactly how Doug Meyer, superintendent, wants...
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Headworks and Biosolids Management
Washing system helps eliminate FOG problem
Problem: A large north Florida regional wastewater system was battling FOG buildups up to 4 feet thick blanketing...
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Award-Winning Project Manager Mark Houle Tackles Challenges With Experience, Problem-Solving Skills and a Dedicated Team
Mark Houle’s first job was collecting and analyzing industrial wastewater samples and operating a 53 million-gallon retention basin for the Oakland County...
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Devin Snyder Succeeds With a Skilled Team, Rigorous Maintenance and a Supportive Manager
Devin Snyder didn’t start out as an operator, but as
a maintenance technician at the Savanna Street Wastewater Treatment Plant in Jackson,...
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An Oregon City Saves $55 Million With a Natural Approach to Wastewater Treatment
Faced with borrowing $62 million for a new wastewater treatment plant, the city of Prineville, Oregon, wanted an alternative.
Community leaders found it...
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A $58 Million Plant Upgrade Sets Kankakee Operators Up for Success
If there’s a great before and after story
in municipal wastewater treatment, it could be Kankakee, Illinois.
Before 2010, the Kankakee River Metropolitan...
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Bar Screen Provides High Performance and Low Cost of Operation
When considering effective treatment technology performing at design standards, the headworks of a plant might be the most critical place in a...
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Exam Study Guide: Barscreen Maintenance; and Surface Water Characteristics
Entry 245196Welcome back to TPO magazine's Exam Study Guide Series, which offers a pair of water/wastewater study questions with in-depth explanations of the answers. Last time,...
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Cross-Training and In-House Improvement Projects Help the Carpinteria (California) Sanitary District Keep Quality Up, Costs Down
Cross-training staff in all facets of treatment plant operations, maintenance and laboratory analysis is yielding big dividends at the Carpinteria (California) Sanitary...
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Here's How a Florida Treatment Plant Team Deals With Hurricanes and Other Storm Events
Please excuse the staff at the Palm Coast Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 1 for complaining about lousy weather.Hurricane Irma was just the...
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A Love of Science Led to a Rewarding Career for Laboratory Specialist Suzanne Potts
Studying to be a dentist didn’t light a fire of enthusiasm for Suzanne Potts, but it did ignite her love of chemistry...
Lakeside Equipment Raptor Multi-Rake Bar Screen
Lakeside Equipment’s Raptor Multi-Rake Bar Screen is designed to remove inorganic solids from wastewater in municipal and industrial applications. A heavy-duty design...
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How Ordinary Attention to Detail Wins Awards
As a teenager working at the Marshall Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant, Rick Bailey got a lesson about quality work.“My boss was Harold...
