Entry 244550A $350 million project proposal could see indirect reuse of wastewater in the City of Tampa, Florida, but a city council...
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News Briefs: Worker Falls to Her Death From Water Tower
Entry 244584A 28-year-old woman recently died after falling 100 feet from a water tower in McLeansville, North Carolina, while performing her duties...
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Hauling Less Costs Less: A Recipe for Biosolids Volume Reduction
Biosolids production and hauling costs had tripled in recent years for the Town of Deerfield (Massachusetts) Wastewater Division. As landfills and incinerators...
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Here's How a Massachusetts Town Prepared Its Wastewater Staff to Respond to a Natural Disaster
By their nature, wastewater treatment plants that service coastal communities are vulnerable to storm surges and floods.
The town of Hull, Massachusetts, on...
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News Briefs: Secondary Digester Catches Fire at Billings WWTP
Entry 245035A secondary digester tank recently caught fire at a wastewater treatment facility in Billings, Montana, causing about $15,000 in damage and...
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News Briefs: Lab Worker Caught on Camera Spiking Coworker's Samples
Entry 245091A former laboratory technician at the Billings (Montana) Water Treatment Plant is accused of contaminating her coworker's water test samples and...
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News Briefs: Taste Test Reveals People Prefer Recycled Water
In a blind taste test based out of the University of California-Riverside, researchers discovered that recycled water from direct potable reuse systems...
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News Briefs: Animal Control Rescues Deer From Water Treatment Tank
Animal control workers in Cobb County. Georgia, rescued a deer that fell into a water treatment tank at the R.L. Sutton Wastewater...
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News Briefs: Treatment Plant Vandals Leave 2,000 Residents Without Water
An act of water treatment plant vandalism recently left 2,000 residents in Crow Agency, Montana, without clean water and caused $1 million...
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This Massachusetts WWTP Plans to Double Its Capacity in the Same Footprint
Facing expanding coverage territories and stricter regulations regarding the concentrations of nitrates and phosphorous in treated wastewater, the Wareham (Massachusetts) Water Pollution...
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News Briefs: Dog Rescued From Plant's Clean Water Basin
City officials in Stillwater, Oklahoma, got a surprise recently when they discovered a dog trapped in a clean water basin at the...
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News Briefs: WWTP Accused of Discrimination Against Septic Pumper
A local septic pumper is suing the city of Taylor, Texas, for racial discrimination because he allegedly wasn’t allowed to dump waste...
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News Briefs: Brewing Company Announces 'Full Circle' Wastewater Beer
Stone Brewing Co. in San Diego, California, has announced a new craft beer made of treated wastewater called Full Circle Pale Ale.San...
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News Briefs: Treatment Plant Malfunction Hospitalizes Two Firefighters
A system malfunction at a water treatment plant in Machester, New Hampshire, resulted in the hospitalization of two firefighters.An automated fire alarm...














