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...
Entries Tagged Belt Press
Editorial
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...
Editorial
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...
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
Old Equipment at Cape Fear Plant Proves Age is No Barrier
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...
Editorial
Stepping Up in Class: Finding a Way to Make Class A Biosolids
Landfill space was at a premium. Land application of Class B biosolids faced public skepticism and rising costs. So the Mechanicsburg (Pennsylvania)...
Editorial
Reaching Higher: An Operator's Pursuit of Knowledge
Wanting to know the “why” behind everything has dominated Garry Houston’s life. When hired to work at the newly completed microfiltration Hargesheimer...
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...
Videos
How Southwest Licking Navigated Those Complex Biosolids Rules
Josh Holton, a Class III wastewater operator at the Southwest Licking Community Water and Sewer District near Hebron, Ohio, takes phosphorus seriously....
Editorial
How to Solve Your Long-Term Biosolids Management Issues
The Municipal Utilities Board of the City of Albertville evaluated numerous options before settling on a long-term biosolids technology.Between landfilling 30 years...
Editorial
The Road to Producing Florida's Class AA Biosolids
Wastewater operator training is available at schools, online and through various manuals and books. Then there’s the training operators get at the...
Editorial
The Decision Maker: How La Plata Plant Became an Award-Winner
Heavy runoff caused sanitary sewer overflows in the Town of La Plata, Maryland. At the La Plata Wastewater Reclamation Facility, high influxes...
Editorial
Florida Treatment Plant Transitions to Sophisticated Step-Feed Biological Nutrient Removal
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...
Editorial
Skid-Mounted Belts
With municipal utilities facing tight budgets, efficiency is paramount. Water and wastewater treatment machinery must save energy and lower operating costs.One answer...



















