Entries Tagged Consulting/Engineering/Design Services

CaliforniaJamestownProject: New wastewater treatment facilityDetails: The facility will replace an older 3.5-acre wastewater treatment facilityStatus: Slated for fall 2021 completionCost: $13.7 million San...

Rising in the ranks as an engineer and designer of clean-water plants, Tom Sigmund, P.E., likely never dreamed that someday he’d be...

As Jordan Damerel cranked the hand wheel of the heavy gate on the bar screen so his operations teammates could maintain it,...

Property owners in the coastal California city of Malibu preferred a local wastewater treatment solution to a regional approach. The choice is...

When Steve Williams went to work for the Magna Water and Sewer District in 1977, it was “just a job.” Not anymore. “It...

As various regions of the country struggle with stressed drinking water supplies, direct potable reuse of wastewater is gaining acceptance. Various hurdles stand...

In building a new treatment plant, the Sangamon County (Illinois) Water Reclamation District wanted it to be a good neighbor. The Spring Creek...

On clean-water plant projects, from new construction to upgrades, there can be tension between the design engineers and plant operations teams. The...

To Matt Jenkins, optimizing a wastewater treatment plant is a lot like tuning a guitar. “You can never just tune one or two...

Cross-training staff in all facets of treatment plant operations, maintenance and laboratory analysis is yielding big dividends at the Carpinteria (California) Sanitary...

Just off a busy downtown street, the California city of Anaheim operates a wastewater treatment plant. It’s a small plant, but along...

Rainy days used to spell trouble for the Enosburg Falls (Vermont) Wastewater Treatment Facility in the form of combined sewer overflows. That...

The goal in building a fence around the City of Saginaw Water Treatment Plant was not only to improve security, but also...

When Brian Steglitz graduated from Yale University, he joined an environmental consulting firm developing regulations for the U.S. EPA.The snail’s pace of...