The Willamette River Water Treatment Plant was built as a long series of buildings in a row, each joined by sections of...
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News Briefs: Ten Arizona Breweries to Offer Reuse Beer at Celebration
Entry 243680Ten of the Scottsdale, Arizona, area’s most popular craft breweries are now serving specialty beers brewed specifically for the One Water...
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News Briefs: WWTP Operator Hospitalized After 20-Foot Fall
Entry 244147A worker was hospitalized after falling 20 feet into a cylinder container at the Upper Brays Wastewater Treatment Plant in West...
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News Briefs: Firefighters Rescue Deer From Water Treatment Plant Tank
Entry 244162A video recently surfaced showing firefighters in St. Helens, Oregon, rescuing a deer that was trapped in a contact tank at...
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Could Your Plant Use This Innovative Method of Finding Ways to Drive Down Energy Bills?
On a gray day in January, workers at the City of Corvallis (Oregon) Wastewater Reclamation Plant fanned out across the facility, carrying...
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Landscape With a Purpose: Effective Treatment and Botanical Beauty
The City of Silverton, Oregon, was planning a constructed wetland to solve a stream thermal overload problem involving its Schemmel Lane Wastewater...
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Is Your Utility Prepared for Climate Change Impacts? Here's Some Advice on How to Plan
Arguments continue about what exactly is causing global climate change, but evidence that it’s happening now is undeniable. One only needs to...
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News Briefs: Operator Accused of Stealing Water From Town for a Decade
Entry 244691The former water systems operator for Hounsfield, New York, is accused of stealing water from the same town he served using...
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News Briefs: 'Brain-Eating Amoeba' Returns to Louisiana Parish
Entry 245066Naegleria fowleri, colloquially known as the brain-eating amoeba, has made a return to Terrebonne Parish in Louisiana. It’s the third time...
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News Briefs: City of Salem Endures Cyanotoxin Crisis
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Water tests in Salem, Stayton, Turner and Wilsonville, Oregon, recently showed the water was unsafe for young children and some adults...
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An Oregon City Saves $55 Million With a Natural Approach to Wastewater Treatment
Faced with borrowing $62 million for a new wastewater treatment plant, the city of Prineville, Oregon, wanted an alternative.
Community leaders found it...
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Jim Baird Takes Pride in Helping Other Operators Become More Effective and Valuable
Jim Baird has a passion for operator education.
As engineering and operations manager for the Roseburg (Oregon) Urban Sanitary Authority, he manages the...
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Life Is Full of Second Chances. Cliff Church Provides a Sterling Example
Sorry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are second acts in America. Just ask Cliff Church and his colleagues at the Myrtle Creek Sewage...
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News Briefs: Reporters Claim Unsafe Washington Treatment Plant Ruined Man's Life
After being exposed for seven years to toxins at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard’s wastewater treatment plant, Tim Combs of Bremerton, Washington,...












