Entries Tagged Grit Handling/Removal/Hauling

When Kathy Cooper moved to Rochelle, Ill., she had to make a career change: She was a medical technologist, but there were...

Increasing hydraulic capacity Problem The traveling bridge sand filters at the 80 mgd Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys, Calif., had...

These days, Arnie Bevins is even more focused on ensuring the future well-being of the treatment works and its staff than on...

The Mount Carmel (Pa.) Municipal Authority Wastewater Treatment Plant serves Mount Carmel Borough, parts of Mount Carmel Township, and Cunningham Township in...

It’s something to be proud of when a plant wins an award. But when it wins that award year after year, that’s...

Nutrients removed from municipal wastewater in Oregon are helping to restore the salmon fishery in British Columbia. It’s a novel arrangement built...

A 2009 upgrade brings new and different secondary treatment and solids processing systems to a treatment plant in Missouri. Featuring the Grit...

Sludge scraping The ZICKERT Shark sludge scraping system from WesTech Engineering has concave forward faces to transport sediment toward a sludge pit. During...

Hikers and bikers on the trail past the newly upgraded Washington (Mo.) Wastewater Treatment Facility probably have no idea about the innovative...

Think of the Clayton County (Ga.) WaterAuthority as a huge irrigation system. Now think of its William B. Casey Water Reclamation Facility...

In barely 10 years, the Tarpon Springs (Fla.) Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility has gone from “the little plant that couldn’t” to “...

In April 2005, the Fairplay (Colo.) Sanitation District’s permit limit for effluent ammonia dropped from 25 mg/l to 10 mg/l. The three-cell,...

The PISTA WORKS headworks system from Smith & Loveless combines screening, grit removal and grit washing in one integrated unit. There are...

It might not have been the parting of the Red Sea, but the early-morning chlorine contact chamber diversion at the Middle Oconee...