Entries Tagged Chloride System

As the weather warms and the snow melts, municipalities from Boston to Bangor, Maine, are facing challenges from this winter's record-setting snowfall totals.

In this week's news, a lead operator at an Illinois wastewater treatment plant is taken into police custody. Also, a municipality bans gas drilling wastewater.

Every water plant has a story. But not every water plant has roots in the Great Chicago Fire, cholera outbreaks and a severe typhoid epidemic.

The discussion about fracking wastewater is far from over. As the City of Auburn, N.Y., learned, municipal plants are just beginning to understand how drilling wastewater affects a treatment system.