Clarifier Articles

The annals of home ownership are filled with stories of do-it-yourself projects gone wrong. Operators of water and wastewater treatment plants are more...

Imagine you buy a house and on the day you’re to move in it is half finished and teeming with construction workers. That’s...

The heart of a circular clarifier system is the drive assembly and with regular maintenance can operate efficiently for many years. However,...

For weeks the staff at the Clarkston Wastewater Treatment Plant battled an aggravating overpopulation of Daphnia in the secondary clarifiers. The tiny crustaceans, often called...

Efficient clarification is an essential component of drinking water treatment. Many water plants have existing rectangular sedimentation basins in need of refurbishing;...

Clean-water plant operators have long resigned themselves to the laborious and dangerous process of manually cleaning algae, grease and other material from...

A North Carolina clean-water plant was having difficulty with a rectangular primary clarifier. The scraper flight boards and scum collector boards had gone out...

When Andrew Shepherd looks into the microscope, he sees more than wastewater organisms. He gets a picture of the entire plant operation and can...

In 2020 when the North Woodstock Wastewater Treatment Plant won a U.S. EPA Regional Excellence Award, it was a career cap of sorts...

Rusty Tournade came to the water industry only nine years ago. He started with the City of Eudora, in Northeast Kansas, in 2012...

WASTEWATER By Rick Lallish Denitrification in the secondary clarifier is undesirable. Which is the best method of minimizing denitrification of secondary clarifier sludge? A. Proper...

Celebrating 50 years of Lamella Parkson introduced the original Lamella inclined plate clarifier 50 years ago in North America, and it has since...

In municipal water treatment applications, there is a constant need to accurately monitor levels in open channels, lagoons, canals, lift stations, sediment...

When Hector Delgadillo talks about meat and potatoes, he doesn’t mean dinner. He’s talking about his staff at the Jomax and Beardsley Water...