OR-TEC’s Blue Whale micro bar screen removes wipes, rags, plastics, hair and other stringy material at the headworks. The 2 mm multirake...
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Entries Tagged Bar Screen
Editorial
Finding a Productive Package for a Wastewater Plant Upgrade
The Moore County (Tennessee) Utility Department needed a new wastewater treatment plant. Its continuous-flow activated sludge package plant was showing its age;...
Online Exclusives
WEFTEC Report: Lakeside Exhibits Multi-Rake Bar Screen With High Hydraulic Capacity, Low Headloss
Lakeside Equipment displayed the Raptor multirake bar screen at WEFTEC. The device is designed to remove inorganic solids from wastewater in municipal...
Editorial
Operators Discover a 'Toy Store' of Technology at Virginia Plant
An operator joining the team at the Millard H. Robbins Jr. Water Reclamation Plant will find enough processes, learning opportunities and challenges...
Editorial
Headworks and Biosolids Management
Unit provides aeration and mixing to equalization basinProblem: Big Park Domestic Wastewater Improvements District in Arizona built a 500,000 gpd biological wastewater...
Editorial
Plant Embraces Innovation With Biosolids and Reclaimed Water Systems
The Wellington Water Reclamation Facility has won numerous awards. Its compliance history, operation and maintenance practices, customer relations, and safety record are...
Editorial
Virginia Plant Goes Above and Beyond to Solve Problems
Operators at the Noman M. Cole Jr. Pollution Control Plant are deep thinkers. They ask: What could go wrong? And how will...
Editorial
Creating a Culture of Safety at Your Treatment Facility
Look around any workplace and the safety materials are hard to miss. There are safety posters, videos, course announcements, booklets, stickers, tip...
Editorial
How an Award-Winning Plant is Putting Veterans to Work
Veterans take many skills with them when they retire from the military. Many of those skills are recaptured at the Loxahatchee River...
White Papers
Screening Considerations: A Guide
Proper screening is one of the most important steps in the operation of a wastewater treatment plant. In this white paper from...
Editorial
How a Tulsa Plant Won Platinum Status During an Upgrade
A major upgrade was a long time coming for the Lower Bird Creek Water Pollution Control Facility.The 20-year-old facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma,...
Editorial
How to Run a Plant with Seasonal Fluctuations
Public Works director Chris Jacobs sums up the challenges of treating wastewater in the town of Hampton, New Hampshire: “It’s like we’re...
Editorial
How One Plant Beat Phosphorus Limits and Avoided a Plant Upgrade
When the time came to renew ITS NPDES permit, the team in the City of Seguin received an unpleasant surprise.In 2010, as...
Editorial
Headworks and Biosolids Management
Wet well system curbs odor issuesProblem: In mid-2013, the Pacific Northwest Regional Wastewater Authority was receiving odor complaints from residents around a...
