When Tommy Armstrong stares at the cracking mud of a dewatering bed, he sees more than drying biosolids. He sees crazy lines,...
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How to Train a Rookie Operator
Starting a new job — especially if it’s in a new career — can be an emotionally intense experience. A new employee...
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Pedal Power: The Green Way to Get Around Your Plant
Come spring, you’ll likely find members of the Field’s Point staff cruising around the facility’s 23-acre site on tricycles — not the...
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Wait! Did You Check Your Gas Detector?
Just a few months ago, two men were killed and one man was hospitalized when they were overcome by toxic fumes while...
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Burn Free: How Fuel Cells Generate Electricity From Biogas
The science of capturing gas from wastewater treatment plants to be used as fuel for vehicles and generators has been well developed....
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Gold Rush! Could Biosolids Contain Millions in Precious Metals?
In the classic 1969 Western musical, Paint Your Wagon, Ben Rumson, played by Lee Marvin, and Pardner, played by Clint Eastwood, discover...
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All You Need is Love ... And Clean Water: 5 Reasons to Adore Water/Wastewater Operators
It’s the season of Cupid — think hearts, frilly cards with corny sentiments, dark-chocolate truffles and overpriced red roses. Whether you deem...
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Cleveland Kicks Off 'Year of Clean Water' With Sustainability Initiative
Building a “thriving green city on a blue lake” is the tagline for Sustainable Cleveland 2019 — a 10-year initiative that hopes...
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In Texas, Brown is the New Green
One Texas community is using a grassroots campaign to conserve water. And township leaders are confident the efforts will successfully preserve limited...
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Color Me Creative: Paracord Bracelets Made Just for Operators
Operator ingenuity — or creativity — can come in so many different shapes and forms. This week, we’d like to give a...
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Biosolids Battle: Quasar Talks Lessons Learned in New York
In environmentally sensitive western New York, biosolids land application has turned into a tough sell for Quasar Energy Group. The company, which...
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Flight Path: 5 Beautiful Wastewater Treatment Plant Aerials
About 12 years ago, Marcel Tremblay earned his pilot’s license and began a hobby that combined two of his passions: wastewater treatment...
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Here's to 40 Years of Safe Drinking Water
1974.Nixon was impeached. The Watergate trial began. The first extraterrestrial message was sent from Earth into space. John Lennon’s solo “Whatever Gets...
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What the Heck is Frazil Ice?
First it forms. Then it multiplies. Then it attaches to underwater structures like water system intakes.It’s frazil ice, and it’s led to...
















