Cleanup is underway at the West Jefferson Treatment Plant in Detroit, where a 16-inch water main break caused flooding inside the facility....
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News Briefs: Treatment Plant Floods After Water Main Breaks
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Gold Rush! Could Biosolids Contain Millions in Precious Metals?
In the classic 1969 Western musical, Paint Your Wagon, Ben Rumson, played by Lee Marvin, and Pardner, played by Clint Eastwood, discover...
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A Partnership Creates A Biosolids Facility That Yields A Quality Product
Just 10 miles from Niagara Falls, a biosolids treatment plant has managed to take waste and turn it — all of it...
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The Fire Chief Project: Don’t believe it? Smell for yourself.
The Indiana city of Terre Haute plans to expand processing of other communities’ waste activated sludge at its wastewater treatment plant as...
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News Briefs: Mothballed Plant Could Become Wastewater University
A mothballed water treatment plant, once operated by Maine’s Greater Augusta Utility District, could become the site of a unique hands-on water...
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News Briefs: Diabetes Drug Discovered Near Lake Michigan Treatment Plants
Researchers with the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have found elevated levels of metformin, a diabetes treatment drug,...
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Sid Fredrickson's Career In Coeur D'Alene Has Been A Continuous Quest For Excellence
During Sid Fredrickson’s first year as Coeur d’Alene wastewater superintendent, part of the answer to a challenging phosphorus limit was a process...
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A State Biosolids Council Finds Farmers Are The Most Effective Sources Of Information For The Public
Everyone has played the game, “Telephone,” where players pass a message from person to person and see how it’s distorted by the...
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News Briefs: Bill Gates Demonstrates Value of Water Reuse
In a new video posted to his blog, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates brings awareness to water reuse, clean drinking water...
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Biosolids Battle: Quasar Talks Lessons Learned in New York
In environmentally sensitive western New York, biosolids land application has turned into a tough sell for Quasar Energy Group. The company, which...
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Biosolids Challenge: What's In a Name?
Ron Adams, the Mechanicsburg (Pa.) Wastewater Treatment Plant supervisor, wants his customers involved in what he does. He wants them to understand...
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Victory! Washington Court Upholds Biosolids Application
Biosolids earned a legal victory this month when the Washington Court of Appeals struck down a Wahkiakum County ban on the land...
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A California Agency Creates A Brand For Its Recycled Water, Biogas Energy And Pelletized Biosolids
Many clean-water plants create brand names for their biosolids. The Encina Wastewater Authority takes the concept further.Its Class A biosolids pellets go to...
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News Briefs: Town Debates Treated Fracking Wastewater Proposal
Two Canadian communities have discovered that fracking wastewater, even when treated, is an emotional topic for residents. According to CBC News-New Brunswick,...
