Entries Tagged Fine-Bubble Diffuser

Editorial Effective Planning and Consistent Maintenance Helped This Plant Win the 'Stanley Cup of Wastewater'

When the Bloomington-Normal Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant won a 2018 Plant of the Year award from the Illinois Association of Water Pollution...

October 16, 2019

Editorial A City on the Pacific Coast Rejects a Regional Approach for a Community-Based Initiative to Phase Out Septic Systems

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

June 17, 2019

Editorial Fort Wayne Takes Beneficial Use to Entirely New Levels

Earth Day began on April 22, 1970. The biosolids beneficial use program in Fort Wayne, Indiana, goes back almost that far. The city’s...

July 19, 2018

Editorial Award-Winning Project Manager Mark Houle Tackles Challenges With Experience, Problem-Solving Skills and a Dedicated Team

Mark Houle’s first job was collecting and analyzing industrial wastewater samples and operating a 53 million-gallon retention basin for the Oakland County...

June 19, 2018

Editorial Chicago-Area District Nears Net-Zero Energy Through Efficiency and Aggressive Biogas Production

The Downers Grove (Illinois) Sanitary District is on the verge of a sustainability milestone: The wastewater treatment plant is producing more electricity...

May 16, 2018

Editorial A $58 Million Plant Upgrade Sets Kankakee Operators Up for Success

If there’s a great before and after story in municipal wastewater treatment, it could be Kankakee, Illinois. Before 2010, the Kankakee River Metropolitan...

March 20, 2018

Editorial How to Maximize On-Site Energy: Save It and Also Produce It

Some clean-water plants become more sustainable by saving energy; others by producing their own. The South County Regional Wastewater Authority in California...

March 20, 2018

Editorial Cross-Training and In-House Improvement Projects Help the Carpinteria (California) Sanitary District Keep Quality Up, Costs Down

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

February 20, 2018

Editorial Too Much Rain Leads to Upgrades for Vermont WWTP

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

September 14, 2017

Editorial 27-Year Laboratory Veteran Wins William D. Hatfield Award

Sue Baert credits her husband, Dan, for gettinG HER into the wastewater treatment industry.“I grew up on a Wisconsin farm, got my...

September 14, 2017

Editorial Operators Discover a 'Toy Store' of Technology at Virginia Plant

An operator joining the team at the Millard H. Robbins Jr. Water Reclamation Plant will find enough processes, learning opportunities and challenges...

August 16, 2017

Editorial Operator’s Research Saves Plant Millions of Dollars

Go the extra mile. For Ricardo “Rick” Cantu, that’s more than a saying — it’s how he defined his life in wastewater...

June 14, 2016

Editorial Virginia Plant Tackles Tightening Nutrient Permit Limits With Gusto

Thirty-five years ago, the wastewater treatment plant serving the east half of Virginia’s Prince William County lay mostly isolated, surrounded by woods.Today,...

May 17, 2016

Editorial The Decision Maker: How La Plata Plant Became an Award-Winner

Heavy runoff caused sanitary sewer overflows in the Town of La Plata, Maryland. At the La Plata Wastewater Reclamation Facility, high influxes...

January 19, 2016

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