Sometimes clean-water plants don’t care to be the first in their area to install a new technology. That’s not the case in...
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Florida Treatment Plant Transitions to Sophisticated Step-Feed Biological Nutrient Removal
The Eustis Wastewater Treatment Plant went online in 1959 with a 1.0 mgd trickling filter process. Fifty-seven years later, it’s a 2.4...
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Treatment and Filtration
Cloth media filters help boost capacity and cut backwash volumeProblem: The Portland (Indiana) Wastewater Treatment Plant had been using six granular media...
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What Does Alaskan Fishing Have to Do With Wastewater?
Commercial fishing played a big role in the development of Petersburg, Alaska. It also has a lot to do with successful operation...
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Real Ale Brewing Co. Tackles Discharge Limits
Real Ale Brewing Co. discharges production and process graywater to the municipal sewers. As production increased from 5,000 barrels in 2006 to...
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An Epic Flood Meant A Long Recovery For The Plant Team In Clarksville, Tennessee
Thirty feet of water and sewage covering the treatment plant grounds and structures. Building roofs lifted off. Clarifier vacuum units afloat and...
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A Maine Community Builds A Multi-Talented Team & Resumes Control After Years Of Contract Operations
When a contract operator took control OF the City of Biddeford’s clean-water plant, both sides knew the arrangement was temporary.OMI, the operations arm...
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The Yellow Springs Team Finds The Funds And Makes The Improvements To Meet Strict Phosphorus Limits
When Joe Bates became superintendent of the Yellow Springs (Ohio) Water Reclamation Facility eight years ago, he knew he had a lot of...
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A California Agency Creates A Brand For Its Recycled Water, Biogas Energy And Pelletized Biosolids
Many clean-water plants create brand names for their biosolids. The Encina Wastewater Authority takes the concept further.Its Class A biosolids pellets go to...
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The Asheboro Team Meets New Nitrogen Limits Without A Costly Plant Upgrade
Mike Wiseman and his operations team knew they would face a total nitrogen limit in their new permit, due in 2016.So, instead...
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An Iowa Team Masters A New Plant's Biological Nutrient Removal Process
EDITOR’S NOTE: Since this article was written, Clinton’s water quality superintendent Dan Riney has retired from that community and has taken a...
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Right At Home
EDITOR’S NOTE: Jeremy Cramer, who was superintendent of the Stevens Point Wastewater Treatment Plant at the time this article was researched and...
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A Stellar Team
Jennifer Baca and Chris Lopez love a challenge, and it has taken them far. From temporary laborer, to senior operator in charge of...
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Green Insurance
In the western Oregon cities of Springfield and Eugene, a successful program provides land-applied biosolids to local farmers, mainly for growing grasses. But...
