Entries Tagged Clarifier

When Kathy Cooper moved to Rochelle, Ill., she had to make a career change: She was a medical technologist, but there were...

Antioxidant protection The OR-1000 system from Poly Processing deters the oxidation effects of sodium hypochlorite, sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid by adding a...

It’s something to be proud of when a plant wins an award. But when it wins that award year after year, that’s...

John Lande remembers a time when he AND his staff didn’t enjoy going to work. In the late 1990s, a new permit...

Think of the Clayton County (Ga.) WaterAuthority as a huge irrigation system. Now think of its William B. Casey Water Reclamation Facility...

The Coffee Creek Wastewater Treatment plant in Edmond, Okla., has had near-perfect compliance in 38 years and has won several awards, most...

The Madison (Ala.) Wastewater Treatment Plant went through a major upgrade just six years after the original activated sludge plant was built....

Like a hand in a glove, wastewater treatment has matched the rapid growth of housing in Huntley, Ill. Developments like Sun City,...

When the city of El Dorado, Kan., needed to upgrade its trickling filter/rotating biological contactor plant to meet ammonia limits and deal...

Back in 1861, two surveyors camping in the wilderness of what is now Huron County, Mich., found a badly damaged axe. The...

For years, operators at the Suffield Water Pollution Control AUTHORITY wastewater treatment plant tried in vain to meet increasingly stringent total nitrogen...

When 26 percent of Fox River Water reclamation District employees took early retirement in 2006, including several key managers, there could have...

The expanded biological nutrient removal process at the Algonquin (Ill.) Wastewater Treatment Facility is as chemical-free as possible. Credit goes to the...

Municipal wastewater treatment plants are known for resourcefulness in the face of operational challenges. But if there were a “Do It Yourself”...