Entries Tagged Featured

Abigail Foust had done everything from working as a janitor to selling fly fishing waders. She even worked for three years in...

Rhinelander, Wisconsin, has a nose for cost-effective odor control.To eliminate odors from foul air drawn from beneath its influent channel covers, the...

Early in my career, my education focused on attending classes and getting licenses. It wasn’t until about 10 years in the wastewater...

Phosphorus — a water-quality nemesis and the target of tighter treatment regulations — might actually be bringing point-source and nonpoint source dischargers...

Dan Shirah saw the looks and sensed the trepidation.Sure, Shirah is an experienced homebrewer, but some folks wondered how his latest creation...

In Philadelphia, a new app is helping commercial property owners reduce stormwater runoff — and save money.Last summer, the city launched the Credits Explorer...

A new high-tech research vessel is helping wastewater professionals improve the safety, scope and efficiency of water-quality monitoring efforts in Washington’s Puget...

Activated sludge process control is a daily consideration for producing high-quality effluent. Typically, a plant superintendent or chief operator makes decisions for...

Mosquito control is nothing new to many cities, especially across the South. However, the threat of the Zika virus is raising the attention...

Everybody remembers the Ghostbusters, the 1980s film stars who tracked down ghosts in New York City.But Mud Chasers?It’s the name of a brand-new...

“From where I live in McMurray, I could see the fire bombers from our backyard, but I didn’t think twice about it.”That’s...

Editor's Note: This blog was originally posted on Think at the Sink, a public education arm of Athens-Clarke County Public Utilities Department. Here...

Nearly half of the U.S. population relies on groundwater as a drinking water source. That’s more than 140 million people, and about 45...

Phosphorus.Every wastewater treatment plant manager knows that meeting new limits for phosphorus can be very costly. But managers also know that controlling...