Entries Tagged Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO)

Matt Dow got an early introduction to the clean-water profession. Now he leads a team in charge of three treatment plants plus a collection network and CSO sites.

The cloth media filtration system from Aqua-Aerobic Systems helped the city of Rushville, Indiana, limit untreated CSO discharges into the Flatrock River

Physical limitations didn’t keep Alvin Rucker from leading a team and overseeing projects to protect water quality in his childhood river

Brian Boswell didn’t dream of a wastewater career, but once he found it, he grabbed on to become an award-winning wastewater superintendent

The system is designed to detect blockages in sewers and has shown an almost 90% accuracy rate in a recent trial

For Bruce Royce and his team in the Michigan city of Midland, some of the biggest challenges come from outside the pipes that deliver influent

Green stormwater infrastructure projects help KC Water make progress toward goals for reducing CSO frequency and volume

Newly minted WEF Fellow Kim Furry strives for excellence, whether leading her clean-water plant team or giving volunteer service to the industry

A plant upgrade including new pumps and controls and a plant-wide SCADA system helps an Ohio city solve a long-standing problem of combined sewer overflows.

An array of sensors in the combined sewers help the South Bend Wastewater Department keep the system flowing smoothly and prevent sewer overflows.

A wet-weather treatment station in Washington’s King County will help control CSOs and furthers a wide range of sustainability goals.

Two completed segments of the tunnel have diverted more than 2 billion gallons of stormwater to a treatment plant and have prevented more than 100 tons of trash from entering area rivers