Entry 244989A blaze that required 50 firefighters on scene at a water treatment plant in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, resulted in damages to offices...
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News Briefs: Secondary Digester Catches Fire at Billings WWTP
Entry 245035A secondary digester tank recently caught fire at a wastewater treatment facility in Billings, Montana, causing about $15,000 in damage and...
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News Briefs: Thousands Still Lack Clean Water After Hurricane Harvey
More than three months after Hurricane Harvey made landfall and wreaked havoc along the Gulf Coast, there are still thousands waiting for...
Editorial
This Plant's Landscape Replicates the Stages of Water Treatment
The story of how a community’s drinking water is collected and processed has been cleverly designed into the landscape and buildings at...
Editorial
Eye on Sustainability: UConn Reclaimed Water Facility Shows Campus' Green Side
The Reclaimed Water Facility at the University of Connecticut sits right between two other critical utility plants on the campus.It receives secondary...
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GTI Addresses City of Bridgeport's Odor Woes
The customer:
The Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA) of the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, operates two wastewater treatment facilities and maintains the city’s...
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Bottles of Hope: Connecticut Operator Sends Water to Flint
“I saw it on the news, and I just needed to do something.”That’s what New Englander Ken Hinson said when he watched...
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News Briefs: Chrysler Worker Dies at Wastewater Treatment Plant
An employee at an FCA US plant in Detroit died this week while preforming maintenance operations at the facility’s onsite wastewater treatment plant....
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Connecticut Water says, 'Take that, utility scammers!"
Not a month goes by that we don’t read about scams targeting utility customers. Unfortunately, it’s a pretty common occurrence.Here’s just a...
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Bridgeport Chooses Retractable Cover to Fight Odors
The customer:
The Water Pollution Control Authority (WPCA) of the City of Bridgeport, Conn., operates two wastewater treatment facilities and maintains the City’s...
Editorial
A Little Gem
When the seasons change, Jeff Rines and Steve Giordano carefully watch their source water organic and turbidity levels and make water treatment...
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News Briefs: Heavy Rains Send Record Sewage Spill Into Harbor
About 25 million gallons of partially treated wastewater ended up in Stamford Harbor, Conn., after heavy rains inundated the wastewater treatment facility....
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Weekly News Briefs: Unreported Spill Prompts Mercury Testing
An unreported mercury spill triggered concern over employee health at the East Lansing, Mich., Wastewater Treatment Plant after an anonymous caller tipped...
Editorial
Cool in Crises
When Ernest Hemingway defined courage as “grace under pressure,” he might have been talking about Robert “Rob” Longo, superintendent of the Bristol...
















