Entry 243375Operators in Lake County, Illinois, are using molasses as an essential part of its wastewater treatment process, according to a recent...
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Award-Winning Engineer Talks Job Duties Overseeing Major Projects
Raed Armouti — recent winner of the American Water Works Association’s 2019 George Fuller Award for wide-ranging contributions to the water industry...
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Diligent Care for the Water System Earned an Illinois Village a Utility Water Saver Award
The Illinois village of Mount Prospect has not had its own water plant for decades. It does have plenty of challenges to...
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Field Trips On Wheels: Mobile Education Center Teaches Students About Water Treatment
The environmental compliance and water quality team at Illinois American Water visits schools throughout the year to educate students about the water...
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Setting Goals Reachable Through Hard Work. That's Lori Stenzel's Formula for Success.
Wanting more has dominated Lori Stenzel’s professional life.
As senior water quality and environmental compliance specialist for Illinois American Water in Belleville, she...
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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...
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Plant Operators Are a Clever and Inventive Lot. Here Are Some Cases in Point.
One problem treatment plant operators rarely, if ever, face is surplus money to deal with the everyday issues they face.
Therefore, perhaps by...
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Evanston Looks to Apprenticeships to Help Withstand the Coming Wave of Retirements
The Illinois city of Evanston developed an apprentice program in 2009 to train applicants for its water treatment facility because it was...
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Landia Offers an Innovative Approach to Mixing Biosolids in Digesters
Operators at the Downers Grove (Illinois) Wastewater Treatment Center worked for four years with the vendor to repair the compressor on the...
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Tours and Activities Give Residents New Appreciation for Wastewater Treatment
An annual fall open house at the Water Reclamation Center in Carol Stream, Illinois, has been a popular attraction for the past...
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A Dedicated Team, Hard Work and a Supportive Board Spell Success in Springfield, Illinois
In building a new treatment plant, the Sangamon County (Illinois) Water Reclamation District wanted it to be a good neighbor.
The Spring Creek...
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An Integrated Fixed-Film Activated Sludge Secondary Treatment Process Helps an Illinois Plant Boost Capacity
The Mahomet (Illinois) Wastewater Treatment Plant sits in a tight 5-acre triangle: on one side a railroad track, on another side the...
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A Small Solar Power System Is a Perfect Fit for a Village in Illinois
The wastewater treatment plant in the Illinois village of Deer Creek is small at 132,000 gpd (design), but not too small to...
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Some Plant Operators Are Specialists. Team Members at Crystal Lake Do It All.
There’s cross-training. And on-the-job training. And hands-on training.
And then there’s around-the-horn training. That’s what they practice at the Crystal Lake (Illinois) Wastewater...
