Dean Walker appreciates the view from his workplace. Numerous windows in the Dryden Wastewater Treatment Plant overlook the Wabigoon River, the plant’s...
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Entire Clean-Water Plant Earns LEED Recognition
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Starting Fresh: Small Team Learns New Operational Procedures
When Ray Pardee sees the award plaques on the walls at the Row River Water Treatment Plant, he feels pretty good.That’s because...
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Simple Solutions for Process Improvement
Sometimes it doesn’t take a major plant upgrade to drive down the nutrient content of effluent and improve overall plant performance.Bob Gabry,...
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Traditional Retirement Not an Option for This Award-Winning Operator
After winning a prestigious award for his contributions to the industry, John Adie retired from a 25-year career at the wastewater treatment...
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Hurricane Leads Hoboken Plant to Design, Install Major Improvements
Lots of rain and stormwater runoff in a short time can challenge any combined sewer system.Just ask the operators of the Adams...
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How an Award-Winning Plant is Putting Veterans to Work
Veterans take many skills with them when they retire from the military. Many of those skills are recaptured at the Loxahatchee River...
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See How Ohio City Got Up To Date with its Treatment Plant
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Village of Ohio City’s 150,000 gpd trickling filter plant routinely bypassed 270,000 gpd of...
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How Wichita Falls Turned a Drought Into Enlightenment
Drought. You wouldn’t call it a blessing in disguise, but it may have a positive side.That’s becoming evident at Wichita Falls, Texas,...
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Unplugged: The Path to Becoming an Energy Independent Facility
The Hayward Water Pollution Control Facility used to consume up to 60 percent of the city’s electricity. Today, it produces its own...
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What a Compost Demonstration Project Teaches Us About Biosolids
The Oregon city of Albany is assessing ways to improve solids treatment and handling at the Albany-Millersburg Water Reclamation Facility (WRF). The...
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How a Tulsa Plant Won Platinum Status During an Upgrade
A major upgrade was a long time coming for the Lower Bird Creek Water Pollution Control Facility.The 20-year-old facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma,...
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Of Elk, and National Parks and Fluctuating Plant Flows
What’s it like to have a six-point bull elk standing on the front steps of your treatment plant? Or to see his...
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From Failed Upgrade to Successful Power Generation
After spending millions of dollars for a system upgrade, the Wooster (Ohio) Water Pollution Control Plant was regularly violating its effluent permit....
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Notes From a Field Trip to the Wisconsin Operators Conference
I really should do this more often. Last May, I attended the Southeast Region Meeting of the Wisconsin Wastewater Operators Association, hosted...
