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Doing It Right
It’s 4:30 p.m. downtown, rush hour just beginning, wind chill minus 30. The last thing a water utility needs now is a...
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Fire Chief Project: Ohio 5K race weaves through wastewater treatment plant
It’s not every day you see racers jogging through your wastewater treatment plant.But on June 14, that’s precisely what’ll happen at the...
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Ohio WWTP Saves Energy With Aeration Systems Upgrade
The city of Newark, Ohio, sought relief from excessive electric bills through significant process upgrades. The Licking River Wastewater Treatment Plant on...
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Avon Solves Frazil Ice Event with Teamwork, Social Media
For two days in early January, it looked as if customers of Avon Lake (Ohio) Regional Water could be without water, thanks...
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Weekly News Briefs: Researcher Harvests Energy from Ammonia
Stanford University researcher Yaniv Scherson has developed a process that captures ammonia from wastewater, converts it to nitrous oxide, and then burns...
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Show Me Your Septage
Rising septage disposal costs and fewer land-application locations are two reasons the Marietta (Ohio) Wastewater Treatment Plant recently organized a septage acceptance...
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Nematode Infestation Demands Process Changes
The wastewater treatment industry faces new challenges every day. Technologies are developed to meet compliance standards in the face of these new...
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Excavator-Mounted Mulcher Keeps Fencerows Clear for Cincinnati MSD
For most people, spring yard work means getting the mower ready, or trimming back some overgrown hedges. For equipment operators at the...
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It’s nice to help ‘move the needle’
This was one of those times that make a magazine staff proud. I share the story here not to blow TPO’s horn...
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WesTech to supply world’s largest compressible media filter
WesTech Engineering, through its subsidiary WWETCO, was selected by Black & Veatch and the City of Springfield, Ohio, to design and manufacture...













