For the past six years the Town of Davie has been a state-recognized winner of the AWWA Florida Section children’s water poster contest.
The...
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A Florida Town Sponsors a Drop Savers Water Conservation Poster Contest for Kids
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News Briefs: CDC Sees Limited Participation in National Wastewater Surveillance System
Entry 242256After Bloomburg reported recently that one third of the Centers for Disease Control’s wastewater sample sites showed a rise in COVID-19...
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Revenue from Septage Keeps a Clean-Water Plant Financially Sound After a Major Discharger's Departure
The Richmond clean-water plant was humming along just fine until the Vermont town’s creamery shut down in 1999.
“With the creamery, our flows...
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A Look at the Bugs Tells This Operator How the Plant Is Running
When Andrew Shepherd looks into the microscope, he sees more than wastewater organisms.
He gets a picture of the entire plant operation and can...
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One Person at a Time: An Award-winning Approach to Public Outreach for a California Specialist
California’s Central Marin Sanitation Agency teaches about water conservation one person at a time, through public events and by building rapport through...
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News Briefs: Billings Water Source Runs Low as Yellowstone River Levels Drop
Entry 242313The only water source for Billings, Montana, is running low, according to officials via the Billings Gazette.
Following a summer that saw record...
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Case Studies - February 2022
No more manual raking for pump station operators
Problem
The Louisiana Pump Station in Tampa, Florida, moves up to 35 mgd. It needs high-quality...
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Constantly Learning. Always Adapting. Those Are the Keys to This Lab Leader's Success
“Once you get into wastewater, you don’t leave.”
That’s Amanda Tobin’s observation after nearly 18 years in laboratories, 16 of them devoted to wastewater....
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A Water Festival Delivers a Timely Message in the Face of a Historic Dry Spell
A Utah utility resumed its popular water festival in June 2021 after skipping a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic — with a...
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News Briefs: Wastewater Testing Plays Key Role in Tracking Omicron Variant
Entry 242369Wastewater sampling and testing is playing a crucial role in tracking the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, as laboratory...
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A Kansas Operator Has a Simple Purpose: Treating Wastewater to the Best of His Ability
It didn’t take long for Scott Millholland to choose his life’s work.
It happened not long after he joined the team at the...
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Von Eggers Is Always Ready for a Tough Task — But No One Asks Him on April 1
There’s a joke going around the Richland Department of Public Works: Von Eggers is not allowed to work on April 1 because...
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Water Wonders Videos Give Lynchburg Utility Customers Valuable and Durable Insights
The Lynchburg water utility was all set for two weeks of jam-packed field trips celebrating Earth Day and Arbor Day in 2020...
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Unique Public Outreach Effort Offers Virtual Reality Tour of Facilities
In an excellent example of public outreach, the East County (California) Advanced Water Purification program recently unveiled a new virtual reality tour...
