Entries Tagged Belt Press

The effluent from SouthWest Water’s two main wastewater treatment plants in Alabama consistently meets permits that include a 0.2 mg/L phosphorus limit. That’s...

If there’s a great before and after story in municipal wastewater treatment, it could be Kankakee, Illinois. Before 2010, the Kankakee River Metropolitan...

Cross-training staff in all facets of treatment plant operations, maintenance and laboratory analysis is yielding big dividends at the Carpinteria (California) Sanitary...

Look around any workplace and the safety materials are hard to miss. There are safety posters, videos, course announcements, booklets, stickers, tip...

Maybe you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but that doesn’t mean an old treatment plant can’t keep up with the...

Landfill space was at a premium. Land application of Class B biosolids faced public skepticism and rising costs. So the Mechanicsburg (Pennsylvania)...

Wanting to know the “why” behind everything has dominated Garry Houston’s life. When hired to work at the newly completed microfiltration Hargesheimer...

Veterans take many skills with them when they retire from the military. Many of those skills are recaptured at the Loxahatchee River...

Josh Holton, a Class III wastewater operator at the Southwest Licking Community Water and Sewer District near Hebron, Ohio, takes phosphorus seriously....

The Municipal Utilities Board of the City of Albertville evaluated numerous options before settling on a long-term biosolids technology.Between landfilling 30 years...

Wastewater operator training is available at schools, online and through various manuals and books. Then there’s the training operators get at the...

Heavy runoff caused sanitary sewer overflows  in the Town of La Plata, Maryland. At the La Plata Wastewater Reclamation Facility, high influxes...

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...

With municipal utilities facing tight budgets, efficiency is paramount. Water and wastewater treatment machinery must save energy and lower operating costs.One answer...