Entries Tagged Oregon

Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission — Maryland’s largest water utility — recently filed a federal lawsuit accusing eight companies and five executives of...

Scott Thompson admits that daily life in a clean-water plant can be routine. But over many years, constant change makes for a...

A water treatment plant in North Toledo, Ohio, recently was evacuated and one employee hospitalized due to a chlorine leak. A hazmat team...

Three teenagers in Troy, Indiana, were arrested after being accused of breaking into the town’s water storage tank.Utility employees found the doors...

When Ray Pardee sees the award plaques on the walls at the Row River Water Treatment Plant, he feels pretty good.That’s because...

A state auditor in New Mexico has accused a rural utility worker of embezzling $850,000 and gambling it away at casinos.The taxpayer...

A lengthy investigative report by The Seattle Times disclosed that human error was partly to blame for the devastating flood at West...

Treatment plant operator Matt Moore said a bacterial bloom that recently grew out of Butte, Montana’s wastewater treatment plant resembled something from...

The two years Mark Knudson spent as a wastewater operator at the Cowlitz County (Oregon) Water Pollution Control Plant made all the...

Editor’s Note: Each month, we’ll bring you a roundup of new water and wastewater projects from across the country. If you would like...

The Durham Treatment Facility has used cogeneration since 1993, but the 500 kW system was too small and getting old. Serving 250,000...

The Oregon city of Albany is assessing ways to improve solids treatment and handling at the Albany-Millersburg Water Reclamation Facility (WRF). The...

More than 400 residents were without wastewater services after an oil train derailed and caught fire June 3 in the Columbia River...

The Saunders County Sheriff’s Office in Yutan, Nebraska, recovered a body from a lagoon at the Yutan Wastewater Treatment Plant on Thursday,...