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A New Hampshire Plant Keeps Humming Along Through a Four-Year Upgrade
To call the Peirce Island Wastewater Treatment Facility a success story is an understatement.
The plant, recently upgraded to advanced secondary treatment and...
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An Illinois Plant Deploys the Aero-Mod SEQUOX Process to Provide Biological Treatment With Room to Grow
The Village of Hinckley needed to upgrade its rotating biological contactor plant to activated sludge to meet a consent decree.
Looking to minimize impact...
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This Pennsylvania Operator Has Learned the Value of a Fully Trained, Team-Oriented Staff
Michael Sedon has seen a great deal in 34 years with Cranberry Township in western Pennsylvania.
Perhaps most important of all, he has seen...
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A Look at the Bugs Tells This Operator How the Plant Is Running
When Andrew Shepherd looks into the microscope, he sees more than wastewater organisms.
He gets a picture of the entire plant operation and can...
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Teamwork Does It
Perhaps no wastewater treatment facility blends old and new as well as the Kline’s Island Wastewater Treatment Plant operated by the Lehigh...
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Comprehensive Training Helps a Plant Team Master a Reuse Facility Serving the Petroleum Industry
The Texas city of Midland needed a new clean-water plant. Pioneer Natural Resources needed an alternative to groundwater for its oil and...
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The Rome Water Utility's Shift to Public Ownership Came With an Initiative to Boost Quality and Efficiency
In 2006 Chad Ziegler inherited a small water utility that had just changed from private to public ownership – and one with...
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Now Clean-Water Operators Can Monitor and Regulate the Chlorination Process in Real Time
Chlorine remains a widely used and highly effective disinfectant for wastewater. But how much chlorine is the right amount? What are the...
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Water Utility Superintendent Inherited a Mystery. Through Diligence He Solved It — and Others
Paul Haugen had a mystery on his hands. The six wells supplying water to Germantown Waterworks’ customers were supposed to be inspected every...
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This New Hampshire Operator Took a Challenging New Job Eyes Wide Open and Made it a Success
Jim Pouliot always liked a challenge. That’s a big reason he signed on four years ago as water and sewer superintendent in the...
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On the Basketball Court or in the Treatment Plant, Damon Forney Has Always Believed in Team Play
In the minds of most people, the “greatest place on earth” might be a hammock on a south sea island or a...
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Product Spotlight – Water: August 2021
Meter enables accurate electrochemical analysis in the field
Water treatment plants typically have access to a sterile lab environment to conduct the required...
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Cross-Training and a “Solve More Than One Problem” Approach Are Keys for This Kentucky Plant
The small clean-water plant in Hardin County Water District 1 has seen many changes and upgrades.
Its team has had to blend old...



















