For the operations community, the WEF Operator Ingenuity Awards are as important a part of the WEFTEC landscape as the Operations Challenge.
An Illinois city struggled to find qualified water treatment plant team members. An apprenticeship program has had a major impact.
An automated mixing system helps an Illinois treatment plant improve biogas production and increase volatile solids destruction
The Illinois village of Carol Stream draws up to 300 visitors each year to an open house with treatment plant tours and activities for all ages.
The operations team helped design a new treatment plant and continuously optimize its performance in Springfield, Illinois.
The award-winning Mahomet Wastewater Treatment Plant packs a lot of treatment capacity and quality into a severely confined footprint.
A central Illinois village proves that a water or wastewater plant solar energy project doesn’t have to be big to be economically viable.
Operators in Crystal Lake get a complete perspective on treatment plant and lift station operations and regularly rotate duties between them.
Also in this week's water and wastewater news, an Arizona lab worker admits to helping forge a sample and a dog is rescued from a basin at a treatment plant
The Chicago suburb of Highland Park takes pride in water conservation and a membrane filtration system that keeps the water supply reliable and safe.
